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The limit of self is very well mentioned in Quran: "O company of jinn and mankind, if you are able to pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, then pass. You will not pass except by authority [from Allah]." 55-33
This is a good question. Why would the development of Khudi lead to submission to God?
A major challenge is that people equate Iqbal's khudi (خودی) with egoism. Cultural presumption or semantic bias is a good reason for that, as its roots and local linguistic context carry a different connotation.
Iqbal's concept of Khudi has a spiritual context, unlike Zeitzsche's. Iqbal's Khudi has a metaphysical character that does not fit into Zeitzsche's existentialism framework.
This is why Iqbal not only explained Khudi but also answered the question about the source of his philosophy of Khudi in a conversation with his student Syed Nazir Niyazi.
Iqbal invited him to his house and asked him to bring the Holy Quran. He then directed his attention to Surah Al-Hashr, verse 19:
وَ لَا تَكُوْنُوْا كَالَّذِیْنَ نَسُوا اللّٰهَ فَاَنْسٰىهُمْ اَنْفُسَهُمْؕ-اُولٰٓىٕكَ هُمُ الْفٰسِقُوْنَ
Translation: "And be not like those who forgot Allah, and He caused them to forget their own selves. Those are the Fasiqun."
اور ان لوگوں کی طرح نہ ہو جانا جنہوں نے اللہ کو بھلا دیا، تو اللہ نے بھی انہیں ایسا کر دیا کہ وہ خود اپنے آپ کو بھول گئے۔
یہی لوگ نافرمان (فاسق) ہیں۔
Iqbal identifying the sources not only helps understand the concept but also the whole philosophy behind it.
Those who forget God do have ego or self-development. Infact in the materialistic context, they are more active and successful.
So what does forgetting oneself or اپنی خودی سے غافل کر دیا mean?
This means that the connotation is different. It isn't about the self but the essence of self. The الْفٰسِقُوْنَ further explains the idea. It is derived from fisq (فِسْق), which in classical Arabic meant a date seed coming out of its skin. In simpler terms to break out or depart from any order or compound. So when a person disconnects from the essence of self, everything becomes irrelevant regardless of any material or otherwise development.
In his work, Asrar-i-Khudi, he further expanded on the concept and its relation to the spiritual discipline that helps transcend the limitations of the self. Just for reference, writing only one.
نقطۂ نوری کہ نام او خودی است
زیرِ خاکِ ما شرارِ زندگی است
This is why submission/obedience isn't the climax or peak of Khudi. It is merely the first stage of Khudi. Even at the highest order of Khudi, the نیابتِ الٰہی, the person does not lose agency, but it transforms the way it is exercised. Its scope and applications transcend the previous boundaries set by the self.
خدا بندے سے خود پُوچھے، بتا تیری رضا کیا ہے"
One can find extensive theological literature on this, including Hadith Qudsi about the Wilayat. But that's a different topic altogether.
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🔹 BREAKING
Israel has reportedly allowed the entry of more than 91,000 tents, over 8,200 trucks carrying blankets, winter clothing and bedding, 12 sewage water-pumping trucks, equipment to repair water and sewage networks, and fuel to operate treatment plants in Gaza.
This is what your voices, posts, and relentless advocacy can achieve.
Never underestimate the power of speaking up. Your words matter. Keep raising your voices for Gaza! ❤️
No matter how much you try, You can't make everyone happy!
پنڈی اسلام آباد میں کرکٹ میچز ازیت بن چکے ہیں۔ ایک بندہ نہیں ملتا جو کہے کہ پنڈی اسٹیڈیم میں میچ کرایا جائے۔ اللہ اللہ کرکے ایک کرکٹ میچ ختم ہونے کے قریب تھا تو خبر ملی کہ لاہور والاٹیسٹ میچ بھی پنڈی منتقل ۔ سرکار کی جانب سے دی جانے والی سزا ختم نہیں ہو رہی
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#Bosnia’s Hayat TV has paid a remarkable tribute to #AllamaMuhammadIqbal through a special documentary, highlighting the great poet & visionary’s life, intellectual journey & universal message. Dr. Iqbal’s message remains transcendental & deeply powerful !
@OfficialDGISPR @ForeignOfficePk #RadioPakistan #News
radio.gov.pk/09-11-2026/bos…
The contradiction you perceive largely arises frm modern individualistic connotations of "ego." Iqbal was not using term in Freudian or Nietzschean sense of an unbridled will to power. He explicitly stated by "khudi" he meant self-(reliance, respect, confidence, and preservation)
Iqbal's khudi in his Islamic framework is contradictory. Why would the development of the self and the elevation of the ego lead to submission to God. Such khudi is more likely to end in rejection of any divine authority
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1. Factory-farming tens of billions of animals in extreme confinement for food.
2. Flooding oceans and human bodies with microplastics from single-use everything.
3. Handing kids phones engineered for addiction and attention extraction.
4. Manually driving cars that kill 1.2 million people every year.
5. Dumping CO2 into the atmosphere while fully aware of the damage.
6. Treating cancer by poisoning the whole body and hoping the tumor dies first.
7. Making surveillance and data sales the default business model of the internet.
8. Using dry toilet paper instead of water.
9. Raising children primarily on screens as digital pacifiers.
10. Working 40+ sedentary hours a week that systematically wreck body and mind.
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Unbearable.
Gaza screams for us to break the siege.
I hope you are all sleeping safely in your homes, surrounded by your families. I hope every child has warm clothes and every parent can provide the care their children need.
I hope your children have umbrellas, raincoats, and rain boots for school. I hope your cities are prepared to respond to winter emergencies.
Of course, sharing this news will change nothing for our families in Gaza, just as the warnings issued days ago changed nothing.
Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., as families slept on the ground inside their tents, a massive landslide of soil and rocks buried at least two families in Deir al-Balah.
The victims have been identified as:
Habiba Hossam al-Zain, 4 years old
Reem Hossam al-Zain
Ibrahim Hossam al-Zain
Salah Nabhan, 7 years old
Mariam Nabhan
The mothers of these five children remain in critical condition.
The father of the first three children had already been killed by Israel.
I hope everyone has heat in their homes.
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If we watch and do nothing, we are complicit; if we speak, we will be convicted: god help every human enduring the israeli killing machine
The achievement of Iqbal: He opened Urdu poetry to philosophy, Muslim revivalism, and a confident public voice. His philosophy of Khudi continues to inspire self-belief and purpose in generations. His words remain a call to rise. Happy Iqbal Day!
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It is not the fault of Urdu Poets before Iqbal. It is basically conventional persona, inherited from Persian and Arabic Ghazal: the lover is supposed to be helpless, the saqi pours, and the rival is favored. It is nothing more than a stylized role-play. Happy Iqbal day!
Before Iqbal, much of Urdu poetry revolved around being an incel. Gangu poetry, for instance, was all about boozing, whining, and endless rejections. In the words of Patras Bokhari:
اقبال نے اردو شاعری کو مردانگی عطا کی۔
Happy Iqbal day!!
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History is made! For the first time in China’s manned space program, a foreign astronaut from Pakistan will board the Chinese Space Station as a payload specialist on the Shenzhou-24 mission. Adorned with Pakistan’s national flower jasmine, the mission patch symbolizes profound China-Pakistan friendship soaring among the stars. A new chapter of open, inclusive global space cooperation officially begins!🚀
#Shenzhou24 #CSS #ChinaPakistan #SpaceCooperation
@appcsocialmedia @PTVNewsOfficial @CMShehbaz
First foreign astronaut to board Chinese space station:
A Pakistani astronaut will join the Shenzhou-24 crewed flight mission as a payload specialist, said the China Manned Space Agency on November 7, 2026.
The newly released Shenzhou-24 mission patch features jasmine, Pakistan's national flower, adorning the "SZ-24" lettering.
With China's space station going to receive the first foreign visitor, the mission will mark the first joint flight involving Chinese and foreign astronauts in the history of the country's manned space program. After completing a short on-orbit flight, the Pakistani astronaut will return to Earth aboard the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft.
In February 2025, China and Pakistan signed a cooperation agreement on astronaut selection, training and participation in Chinese space station flight missions in Islamabad, officially launching astronaut selection from Pakistan.
After a rigorous three-stage selection and assessment process, two Pakistani reserve astronauts were selected. After completing all training and passing the evaluation in China, one will carry out the crewed flight mission while the other will serve as a backup.
#Shenzhou24 #Shenzhou23
#Tiangong #CSS #MannedSpaceProgram
#Pakistan #PayloadSpecialist #Jasmine
#ChinaPakistan #SpaceCooperation
#ChinaSpace #CMSA #CNSA
#ChinaMilitary #ChinaMilBugle
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This op-ed is worth reading: "Our criminal justice system is unequipped to intercept and prevent attacks within the home".
Op-ed:
"Homes repeatedly turn into hell for children as our criminal justice system is unequipped to intercept and prevent attacks within the home."
dawn.com/news/2042776
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Looks like call centers in Pakistan are following the dark side of "The Beekeeper" movie.
It is now time all the Punjab police should wear Body-Cam to record their movement & duties to enhance the initial pilot project. It will eradicate a lot of mishandling and force the Police to act within the lawful limits.
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At the height of racist violence against the Palestinians, the EU Commission calls Apartheid Israel - where the bloc led by a PM wanted by the ICC won 53 out of 120 seats- “a vibrant democracy”.
Beyond the pale.
eunews.it/en/2026/10/28/the-…
LLMs can solve many problems, but their reliability is built on pattern recognition, not on a solid logical foundation.
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An MIT math professor taught the same linear algebra course so clearly that the free recordings became one of the most watched university math classes on the internet, and most students who need the subject still never open them.
His name is Gilbert Strang.
The course is MIT 18.06. The Spring 2005 lectures are free on MIT OpenCourseWare and on YouTube as a full playlist. Problem sets, exams, and lecture notes sit next to the videos.
Strang's style is the opposite of a textbook wall. He talks through matrices the way a good coach talks through a play: one idea at a time, with the reason attached.
> What a matrix actually does to a vector
> Why eigenvalues are not a party trick
> How least squares hides inside almost every data problem
> When to stop computing and start seeing the picture
Linear algebra sits under machine learning, graphics, engineering, and economics. People pay for bootcamps to learn a soft version of it.
The original MIT lectures are free.
Most people will never press play.
Are you more of a "watch the lecture" learner or a "read the notes" learner? Reply A or B.
