Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938), known as شاعرِ مشرق (Poet of the East) and Allama Iqbal, was a poet-philosopher, barrister and scholar of Sialkot and Lahore. He wrote in both Urdu and Persian, and is regarded as having shaped the intellectual and spiritual destiny of millions.

His central teaching is خودی (Khudi) — the cultivation of the Self through action, love and ceaseless striving — carried in verses that awaken rather than console: the eagle (شاہیں), the morning breeze, the desert, the believer (مومن) who forges his own destiny.

His poetry — from the audacious شکوہ and its answer, to the marble elegy of مسجدِ قرطبہ — is at once devotion, philosophy and a call to renewal. All eleven books he left, in Urdu and Persian, are gathered here in their verified texts.

“Words, without vision, are a mere toy-box of colours; vision, without words, is a lamp locked in the heart.”