Zaid Hamid -Ya Rab Dile Muslim Ko - Iqbal Special 1of4

Zaid Hamid on AAJ News program "Ya Rab Dil-e-Muslim Ko Wo Zinda Tamanna Dai" with Rahat Kazmi, Arshad Mehmood and Khurram Ali Shafique. Iqbal is the best articulated Muslim response to Modernity that the Islamic world has produced in the 20th century. His response has three dimensions: A creative engagement with the conceptual paradigm of modernism at a sophisticated philosophical level through his prose writings, mainly his The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam which present his basic philosophic insights His Urdu and Persian poetry which is the best embodiment of poetically mediated thought, squarely in the traditional continuity of Islamic literature and perhaps the finest flowering of wisdom poetry, or contemplative poetry or inspired poetry in the modern times. As a political activist/ social reformer― rising up to his social responsibility, his calling at a critical phase of history.