Explanation

• Full Name: Sir Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal
• Title: Allama (meaning "very knowing" or "learned"), Poet of the East (Shair-e-Mashriq)
• Date of Birth: November 9, 1877
• Place of Birth: Sialkot, Punjab

Additional information 

• Father: Sheikh Noor Muhammad
• Mother: Imam Bibi
• Received PhD: Germany
• Famous books: Bang-e-Dara, Zarb-i-Kalim, Armughan-e-Hijaz
• Famous Punjabi Books/Poem: Piyaara Jedi, Baba Bakri Wala
• Died: 21 April 1938
• Burial: Badshahi Mosque in Lahore

Explanation

• Delivered Presidential Address at 25th All-India Muslim League session, Allahabad, 29 December 1930.
• Allama Iqbal (1877–1938) is the National Poet of Pakistan.
• Joined Muslim League: 1908 in London, 1922 in Indian subcontinent.

Additional information:

• Born: 9 November 1877, Sialkot
• Died: 21 April 1938, Lahore
• Burial: Tomb of Allama Iqbal, Lahore
• Known as “Mufakkir-e-Pakistan” (Thinker of Pakistan) and “Shair-e-Mashriq” (Poet of the East).

Last verified 09-03-2026

Explanation

• Allama Muhammad Iqbal is known as the Poet of the East (Shair-e-Mashriq).
• He is regarded as the National Poet of Pakistan.

Additional information:

• Born: 9 November 1877, Sialkot
• Father: Sheikh Noor Muhammad
• Mother: Imam Bibi
• PhD: Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (1908)
• Died: 21 April 1938
• Burial Place: Badshahi Mosque, Lahore

Last verified on 10-07-2026

Explanation

Miraj Begum and Aftab Iqbal were the children from Allama Iqbal’s first marriage with Karim Bibi.

First Marriage (Karim Bibi) Child:

1. Miraj Begum (1895–1915)
2. Aftab Iqbal (1899–1979)

Second Marriage (Mukhtar Begum, 1914)

Child:

1. One son (name not clearly documented in most sources)

Note: Both the son and Mukhtar Begum died shortly after childbirth in 1924.

Third Marriage (Sardar Begum) Child:

1. Javed Iqbal (Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan)
2. Muneera Bano

Last verified on 15-06-2026

Explanation

• The eldest son of Allama Muhammad Iqbal was Aftab Iqbal.
• He was born in 1899 from Iqbal’s first wife, Karim Bibi.
• He later became a barrister (lawyer).

Additional information:

• Iqbal’s younger son was Javed Iqbal.
• He was born in 1924 from Iqbal’s third wife, Sardar Begum.
• Javed Iqbal became a judge and philosopher.

Last verified on 14-06-2026