I started out chronologically correct, with writing down the Shikwa before moving onto Jawab-e-Shikwah. However, I thought about the dire time our beloved country is going through. I thought about how the same land of Baba Bulleh Shah has been taken hostage by an army of thugs with their own warped sense of Islam. How […]
Shikwa or Shikayat or Complain is an epic poem by Allama Iqbal that he read in April, 1911 at “Anjuman Himayat Islam” (Gathering in Support of Islam) in – where else – Lahore. It is a poem in which a Muslim person on earth has a litany of complains that he addresses directly to God. […]