Punjab CM urges nation to make Iqbal's thought its guiding light

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Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif pays tribute to Allama Iqbal on his birth anniversary, saying his intellectual services for the creation of Pakistan can never be forgotten
She says Iqbal’s message for the new generation is khudi and awakening
His poetry must be made a greater part of the curriculum, the chief minister says
Pakistan can become a moderate and welfare state only by acting on Iqbal’s thought, the chief minister says
She calls on the nation to renew its resolve to make Iqbal’s thought its guiding light

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has paid tribute to Allama Muhammad Iqbal on his birth anniversary today.

In her special message on Iqbal Day, the chief minister said Iqbal’s intellectual services for the creation of Pakistan could never be forgotten.

She opened the message with the poet’s own verse as her motto: “Ho mera kaam ghareebon ki himayat karna” — to stand by the poor is my work.

Maryam Nawaz said Iqbal had given the Muslims of the subcontinent the consciousness of freedom through his poetry.

She said the Poet of the East’s message for the new generation was khudi (selfhood) and awakening.

The chief minister stressed that young people must be introduced to Iqbal’s thought. She said the poet’s work needed to be made a greater part of the educational curriculum.

According to the chief minister, Iqbal set the nation’s direction while Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah led the stranded caravan to its destination.

She said the lesson of self-respect that Iqbal taught was his great favour to the nation.

The chief minister said Pakistan could become a moderate and welfare state only by acting on Iqbal’s ideas.

She said that on Iqbal Day the nation pledged to adopt Iqbal’s thought and to raise Pakistan high.

Maryam Nawaz said Iqbal had given the subcontinent’s Muslims the message of awakening and aroused in them the two-nation consciousness.

She said his thought-provoking poetry had turned the Muslims of the subcontinent into an awakened and active nation.

The chief minister called Iqbal the standard-bearer of Islam’s universal message, alive and enduring for every age.

She said a free, just and equitable economic and social system could be established by acting on Iqbal’s thought, calling it the need of the hour.

According to the message, the true interpretation of Iqbal’s philosophy could earn Pakistan a distinguished place in the world politically, economically, religiously and socially.

She said the nation must today renew its resolve to make Iqbal’s thought its guiding light.

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