AhlulBayt News Agency: A literary forum in Quetta, Pakistan, hailed Iranian poet Malik Al-Shu'ara Bahar and Pakistani poet Allama Iqbal for their promotion of awakening and friendship in the Muslim Ummah.
The forum was organized by the Iranian Culture House in the city on Saturday, November 12.
A number of poets, thinkers, scholars and literary figures attended the event, which began with recitation of verses from the Holy Quran by Pakistani qari Abdul Wahhab.
Head of the Culture House Seyed Hassan Taqizadeh Vaqefi then spoke about the two great poets, saying patriotism, friendship in the Muslim Ummah and awakening in the Ummah are prominent features of their poetry.
Then a clip was screened which featured the life of the Iranian poet.
Next, Shakil Roshan, president of Al-Hamd University, addressed the forum, saying the 20th century introduced great figures to the world, with Allama Iqbal and Malik Al-Shu'ara Bahar among those figures.
He described the two as teachers, poets, thinkers, and political figures who made efforts for the glory of the Islamic Ummah.
Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is considered among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. He also wrote poems in Persian.
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886-1951), widely known as Malik Al-Shu'ara Bahar, was a renowned Iranian poet, scholar, politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature.
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The forum was organized by the Iranian Culture House in the city on Saturday, November 12.
A number of poets, thinkers, scholars and literary figures attended the event, which began with recitation of verses from the Holy Quran by Pakistani qari Abdul Wahhab.
Head of the Culture House Seyed Hassan Taqizadeh Vaqefi then spoke about the two great poets, saying patriotism, friendship in the Muslim Ummah and awakening in the Ummah are prominent features of their poetry.
Then a clip was screened which featured the life of the Iranian poet.
Next, Shakil Roshan, president of Al-Hamd University, addressed the forum, saying the 20th century introduced great figures to the world, with Allama Iqbal and Malik Al-Shu'ara Bahar among those figures.
He described the two as teachers, poets, thinkers, and political figures who made efforts for the glory of the Islamic Ummah.
Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is considered among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. He also wrote poems in Persian.
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886-1951), widely known as Malik Al-Shu'ara Bahar, was a renowned Iranian poet, scholar, politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature.
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