Today being, April, the 21st, 79 death anniversary of Allama Iqbal, as a mark of commemoration, we may dwell in his interpretation of ‘Al Ikhlas’ which denotes the Unitarian Concept of Allah, being Omnipresent—the eternal, the absolute:

‘’Say: He is Allah the One and Only, Allah, the Eternal, Absolute, He begetteth not, nor is He begotten, And there is none like unto Him’’ [112]

In Iqbal’s Persian treatise, ‘Ramooz Bay’khudi’ Iqbal while alluding to Maulana Rumi’s famous ‘Masnavi’ interprets ‘Al Ikhlas’

On ‘He is Allah, the One........

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