Allama Iqbal Adabi Markaz Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy (Culture Department) organised a two day event ‘Yaadien Iqbal’ in the memory of Allama Iqbal. The event began here from Thursday at Ravindra Bhavan auditorium.
The event is being organized to observe the 80th death anniversary of the legendary poet Allama Iqbal. On the occasion, an international seminar and ‘Char Bait muqabla’ was held at Ravindra Bhavan.
In the beginning of the programme, Nusrat Mehdi, Secretary of Madhya Pradesh State University, welcomed the guests. Mehdi highlighted the outline of the programme.
In the international seminar, Ashfaq Hussain, Canada, spoke on ‘Iqbal, a bright streak of the horizon of intelligence’, Hina Afshan Rizvi, Kanpur spoke on ‘Imagination of women in the poetry of Iqbal’ and Ehsan Azmi, Bhopal spoke on ‘Iqbal’s personality’ and read the article on ‘New Generation.’
Ashfaq Hussain said that Iqbal's poeties is not only for the Muslims, but it is for the entire humanity. Iqbal was an ill-fated man but was very busy. His eyes were very deep and expressive; he used to unleash his time through his poetry. Hina Afsha Rizvi, said that Allama's poetry is not just a shayari, but a perfect Nazam. Ehsan Azmi, said that Allama Iqbal, along with being a poised poet of Urdu and Persian, was the master of law.
After the seminar, Ashfaq Hussein, Farhat Shahzad from Canada, Salma Shaheen from Delhi, Tara Iqbal from Bareli, Zafar Sahabai, Zia Farooqi, Arif Ali, Ashraf Ali and Qazi Malik Naved gave tribute to Allahma Iqbal by reciting his poetry
The programme was followed with Charbait Muqabla. In the competition Charbait groups including Shan-e-Amroha, Charbait Party, Amroha (Ustad-Atauer Rehman, Khalifa-Naseem Ahmed), Akhara Munshi Anjaar Uddin, Chandpur (Ustad-Merhoom Manzoor Hussain, Khalifa-Abdul Wahid), Anjuman-e-Gulistan-e-Charbait , Bhopal (Ustad- Bhagwan Das Panthi, lal Mian Najmi), Bazman Shahid Charbait Party, Bhopal (Ustad-Mohammad Muktar, Khalifa-Abdul Azeem), Bazme Masood Raza Charbait Party, Bhopal (Ustad-Qamar Ali, Khalifa) participated.
Char Bait is an ancient, unique and interesting singing tradition of Urdu and the program has been organised in an attempt to revive this dyeing tradition.