PAKISTAN AS THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘NEW HUMAN BEING’

Khurram Ali Shafique1

ABSTRACT
Between 1887 and 1946, the Indian Muslim community collectively adopted three successive goals and achieved each of them in a fixed period. In this paper it is argued that this was no coincidence. The founding parents of Pakistan were very well aware that their community had unlocked a unique human potential. Its complete rational explanation had already been offered by Iqbal in several of his research papers and scholarly lectures, not to mention his philosophical treatises rendered in Persian verse. The supporting evidence for this argument has already been presented by the speaker in his academically acclaimed work, Iqbal: His Life and Our Times (2014). This paper builds on that work to shed new light on the relationship between the philosophy of Iqbal and the empirical reality of human existence. Needless to say, some of the widespread beliefs of our times are being questioned here, such as the notion that we are living an age of spiritual decline.
KEYWORDS: Iqbal, Sir Syed, Rumi, History, Political Science