ENGLISH: IQBAL AND AFGHANISTAN: AREAS OF INFLUENCE

Abstract

The poet of the East Allama Muhammad Iqbal had a great affinity with Afghans. While reading his life, services, and literary works it reveals that Afghanistan had a huge importance in his writings. It was owing to this feeling of closeness that Iqbal wrote 6 of his books in the Persian language. In his literary and personal capacity, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal was impressed deeply by the Afghans in numerous fields. In his writings, Allama Mushriqi's looks influenced deeply the bravery, resistance, love for freedom, the strategic location and beauty of Afghanistan, and its historic places. At the same time, Sir. Muhammad Iqbal is annoyed at the internal politics, disunity, and tribalism of the Afghans within. In addition, Dr. Allama Iqbal in his writings has been vehemently impressed by Khushal Khan Khatak and Jamal-U-Din Afghani. The ongoing research will focus on Allama Iqbal,s aptitude for the Afghans, his services in the field of education, the effect of Khushal Khan Khatak on Iqbal,s poetry and the impact of Jamal-U- Din Afghani,s thoughts on Allama Iqbal. The study will further elaborate on the love of the Afghans for Allama Muhammad Iqbal that they have expressed in their literature and the eulogies that were composed after the demise of the poet of the East. This study will focus on how Allama Iqbal’s writings were influenced by Khushal Khan Khatak and Jamal —u —Din Afghani. In addition, the ongoing study will shed light upon Iqbal’s love and respect for Afghanistan and the Afghans. This research will also pinpoint how Allama Iqbal is still remembered in Afghan literature.