University of Tehran commemorates Allama Iqbal

Aseminar to commemorate the 141st birth anniversary of Allama Muhammad Iqbal was organized by the Urdu Department of the University of Tehran in collaboration with Pakistan Embassy on November 27.

The seminar was attended by prominent Iranian scholars, academicians, students and media persons as well as Pakistan’s Ambassador to Iran Riffat Masood as the chief guest at the event.

Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages Alireza Valipour; Head of Urdu Department Mohammad Kiumarsi; Head of Iran’s Cultural Center in Lahore Ali-akbar Rezaei-fard and a number of Urdu language and literature university students also took part in the seminar.

The speakers paid rich tributes to the poet of the East and highlighted his message of Islamic unity.

Ambassador Riffat Masood, in her speech, paid homage to Pakistan’s national poet and philosopher and highlighted the various aspects of his life and thoughts. She said that Iqbal not only supported the oppressed Muslims of the subcontinent but he also became a voice for all the Muslims of the world thereby earning him the title of a universal poet, the Pakistan Embassy reported.

The ambassador, while reciting verses from Iqbal’s poetry, highlighted the importance of his message of renaissance among the Muslims. Iqbal’s poetic work became a major source of inspiration and motivation for Iranians during the Islamic Revolution in Iran, she noted.

She said the poet-philosopher laid stress on knowledge about ‘self’, which had universal value and is an inspiration for the coming generations. Sir Muhammad Iqbal, widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet, philosopher and politician, who in his short life wrote many works, said Valipour.

“Widely regarded as having inspired