"Majzoob-e Firangi" - Nietzsche

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Only Iqbal could have made a claim like that and quite rightly so... :) This is what he had to say to Nietzsche who he considered as hakeem!

Hareef-e nukta-e Tawheed ho saka na Hakeem
Nigaah chahiye israar-e laa ilaaha ke liye


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Agar hota vo majzoob-e firangi iss zamaane mein
Iqbal uss ko samjhata muqaam-e Kibriya kya hai

despite feeling the need for translating these verses, I do not feel like translating them, lest the essence gets lost!

Comments

Umer Tur said…
What do you mean by "maqam-e-kibriya"? And, why did Nietzsche need to know about it?
12:55 PM
Naeema Akram-Jehanzeb said…
:)

How can I 'explain' what 'muqaam-e Kibriya' is!?

And it's not me... it's Iqbal who thought that Nietzsche should and could have known about it!
1:53 PM
Naeema Akram-Jehanzeb said…
It might have saved him from experiencing mental breakdown perhaps... just an opinion!
1:56 PM
Naeema Akram-Jehanzeb said…
And I personally consider Iqbal's titles for Nietzsche in a very positive light :)
1:59 PM
Awais Aftab said…
Iqbal writes about Nietzsche in Reconstruction:

"If, therefore, the science of psychology is ever likely to possess a real significance for the life of mankind, it must develop an independent method calculated to discover a new technique better suited to the temper of our times. Perhaps a psychopath endowed with a great intellect - the combination is not an impossibility - may give us a clue to such a technique. In modern Europe, Nietzsche, whose life and activity form, at least to us Easterns, an exceedingly interesting problem in religious psychology, was endowed with some sort of a constitutional equipment for such an undertaking. His mental history is not without a parallel in the history of Eastern Sufâsm. That a really ‘imperative’ vision of the Divine in man did come to him, cannot be denied. I call his vision ‘imperative’ because it appears to have given him a kind of prophetic mentality which, by some kind of technique, aims at turning its visions into permanent life-forces. Yet Nietzsche was a failure; and his failure was mainly due to his intellectual progenitors such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, and Lange whose influence completely blinded him to the real significance of his vision. Instead of looking for a spiritual rule which would develop the Divine even in a plebeian and thus open up before him an infinite future, Nietzsche was driven to seek the realization of his vision in such scheme as aristocratic radicalism."

:)
4:20 PM
Naeema Akram-Jehanzeb said…
Thank you for sharing this, Awais... :) for me, this kind of justifies Iqbal calling Nietzsce a Majzoob (-e Firangi)
9:35 PM
Anonymous said…
All I would like to say is that Iqbal realized and knew that no matter how much wisdom you get, how much knowledge you gain, in the end if you do not "realize" and recognize and submit to what he calls "maqam-e-kibriya", all that knowledge and wisdom is just ashes...
1:16 AM
Naeema Akram-Jehanzeb said…
MashaAllah... well explained, Asma :)

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8:45 AM
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