Scholars of all the fields throughout the history of mankind have only strived to explain the deeper meaning of existence in the simplest possible manners.
Scientists have only sought to describe natural phenomena in layman terms, through models, experimental results, deductive or inductive reasoning. Inherently, all have had this innate perception of connectivity and integration that has led them to look for a simpler and inclusive mathematical equation, which would ultimately describe all nature.
In Hakeem’s words, the equation that describes all creation is kun-fakaan (کن فکاں).
Before talking about this universal equation, this statement of creation, this secret of universe, and why I would like to call Allam Iqbal as Hakeem ul Ummat, let me reiterate that all the philosophers, artists, craftsmen, thinkers, mystics, saints, and sages have only ever strived to explain the universe in light of their observation, experience, and experimentation.
Some called it Divine Power while others termed it as nature’s law. All attempted to explain it. But, none managed to shed any light on the question of ‘being’.
Plato’s utopian Idealism, Aristotle’s realism, Nietzsche’s Superman, Goethe’s Epistemology of World View; all are identified and explained in retrospectives of their contrasts. Everything is relative. Glass is either half full or half empty, depending upon perception and need.
Religious scholars have been no different than traditional philosophers in presenting religious theologies in relativistic manner. Even the scientists of the physical universe could not refrain from limiting their minds to the physical bounds. What and why of the universe became irrelevant as how drove their research and deduction. This gave strength to the propaganda of atheism. What cannot be proved must not exist has become the mantra of the day.
All have strived to decipher existence but all approaches have failed and broke off abruptly, leaving the followers yet more confused, disintegrated, alone. This is the very reason why I would like to profess the title Hakeem for Allama Iqbal as today’s resolution.
My esteemed guests, man is ailing and alone, Hakeem has discovered the cure.
Glass is neither half full nor half empty; glass has no water; water has no glass; all is relative; all is vain if observed through segregation, without integration, without realisation and awareness of the whole.
There is no God, no existence, no perception, and no iota of a stance, except ALLAH Almighty, except Allah Pak.
Glass is not curtailing any water nor is water confined in a container of any sort. There is no glass but the perception of the observer that draws abstract meaning of a construct whose basis is identified by a supposed conceptual sense of being. Hakeem has established that all is one, and one is all. And the equation of the universe is simply kun fakaan.
Evading ostentatious philosophical terminologies, let me candidly expose how Hakeem’s philosophy is no new idea or construct, alien to man. Hakeem has simply rediscovered, revised, reclaimed, and reconstructed the Islamic thoughts that have been here on the Earth since Adam (A.S), since Ibrahim (A.S), since Musa (A.S), and since Muhammad Rasool (صلی اللہ الیہ والہ وسلم).
In fact, scholars of realism, idealism, and mysticism; scientists of physical knowledge, logic, and even meta physicists have been diffracting out to look for the white light; while Hakeem has not dissented but converged them all, reverse-diffracting them all; through a centralised prism of Islamic ideology, shedding out pure white light for Ummah, which includes all mankind, irrespective of the class, colour, or religious creed.
If there is no God but Allah, there is no creation but man; all else is extension for this man. Thus, there is no I, nor you, nor them. There is just ‘we’, Ummat e Wahida, Ummat e Dawah.
Through his poetry and his prose, Hakeem has successfully identified that all creation is the fruit of determination. Determination cannot be seen as a separate abstract than the Determiner. Since, The Determiner is eternal, determination has no start. Thereby, the questions of creation or evolution, the universe and its existence, the matrix of the observed, all are irrelevant as well as relevant, simultaneously.
Hakeem has taken into account all the opposing and coinciding existential theories and ideologies, filter-washed them through self-actualisation, and juxtaposed all event horizons into a singular point of conceptualisation, which he calls: Raaz e Kun fakaan.
Hakeem has discussed the space-time continuum and amazed his readers by addressing the relativity described by physicists. Time dilation, space contraction, the fabric of space-time, these concepts have always been trenches between natural and Meta physicists. Hakeem has brought a unique but ever existing perception to light: all is one, one is all.
As an avid reader of Hakeem, I feel depravity on my part that as a nation, we have completely and collectively confined Dr. Iqbal behind his elegance and superiority in the craft of language, poetry, and philosophy. Undoubtedly, he has blessed language. His command and ability are unmatched. His stature as a research scholar is unparalleled.
His grandeur is unheard of. But ironically, using his unfathomable brilliance, we have conveyed and conjured a devastative hindering wall between his soul and his nation. The mulla whom he despised so much for mis-quoting and mis-interpreting Quran-o-Sunnah has become the propagator of his verses with false contexts and false interpretations.
We, as a nation, must rediscover that Hakeem’s content must be read and taught in the light of Quran o Sunnah to understand the religious thought that he reconstructed for the generations to come
In the preface of his lectures, he states, the Quran is a book of deeds. Spiritual elevation comes from within if the inner self is segregated from the universe. Hakeem invites us to look deep inside ourselves to realise how closely integrated we all are. We are not individuals of a society but integral parts of a whole singular body. Dr Iqbal was a brilliant author, poet, and philosopher. But above all, he was, and still is, Hakeem of our time. And we need to reconstruct his persona as such, in order to revive Ummat e Wahida as Ummat e Dawah, not to compete with other national units, but to lead them out of the abyss, into the light.
