The Devil's Advisory Council

The Devil's Advisory Council : New,
'Iblees ki Majlis e Shoora,' English & Urdu,

[-A5] Small Paperback - 86 pages,
by Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
Transl. By Abdussalam Puthige,
Part of the Muhammad Iqbal Memorial Series,
Published by The Other Press.
 
 
Back in Stock May 2024
 
 
 
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Iblees ki Majlis-e-Shoora - 'The Devil's Advisory Council' is a conversation between Iblees (the devil) and the five members of his advisory council. It is one of the final works of Allama Iqbal.
 
 
The work consists of 64 amazingly dramatised, well composed couplets. Here, Iblees presides over the clandestine session and leads the conversation. He boasts how successfully he has mislead mankind throughout history by introducing ideas and doctrines such as Imperialism, Capitalism, Fascism etc., which have ultimately landed the human society in ruins. His advisers point towards a few emerging trends such as Western democracy and Marxism that they saw as potential threats to the evil regime of Iblees.
 
 
Summarily dismissing all these apprehensions of his advisers, Iblees concludes, that the revolutionary spirit of Islam is the greatest threat to his evil empire and hence the most crucial task ahead was to stop the waves of Muslim resurgence. He instructs them to keep the followers of Islam totally preoccupied with vain spiritual rituals, complex philosophical debates and narrow theological intricacies.
 
 
 
 
Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a poet, philosopher and politician born in Sialkot, British India (now in Pakistan), whose poetry in Urdu, Arabic and Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era and whose vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India was to inspire the creation of Pakistan. He is commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal‎, Allama meaning "Scholar".


Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilisation across the world, but specifically in India; a series of famous lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. One of the most prominent leaders of the All India Muslim League, Iqbal encouraged the creation of a "state in northwestern India for Indian Muslims" in his 1930 presidential address. Iqbal encouraged and worked closely with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and he is known as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-e-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah").


After suffering from illness Allama Iqbal died in Lahore in 1938. His tomb is located near the entrance of the Badshahi Mosque and the Lahore Fort. He is officially recognised as the "national poet" in Pakistan.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Other works of Allama Iqbal.
 
 

*Dimensions : 17.8 x 11.5cm.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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