GABRIEL’S DIRE YELL AND
IQBAL

FROM IQBAL TO GABRIEL

BY ABDUL. GHAFAR.

                   A part of Gabriel’s poetical
work in Urdu has been published, by the Name of Naara-e-Gabriel that means the
Dire yell of Gabriel. And the dire yell indeed it is. It is a sonorous thunder,
it is a warning trumpet. It is an advice. It is a message that touches the
heart and smites the inner conscience. It is a war cry against the dire
consequences of the immoral, ungodly, materialistic and devastating culture of
this present world. It is an exhortation to the Islamic Ummah to stand up to
the occasion, and save this world and themselves from the consequent hazards by
affecting a reform. It is a prayer for a religious, peaceful and prosperous
future of mankind.

                    The work from the beginning to the end is well
rendered, sublime, and effective. Form, number, weight, measure, rhyme, rhythm
is perfect and evinces a masterly touch. The verse moves with ease and
elegance. The diction throughout is sonorous and exhibits utmost purity and
simplicity. The sincerity of the purpose is the conspicuous characteristics. It
is the voice of a sincere heart. Therein is power as well as pathos. Seldom in
any poetical work exhortation with such brevity and vehemence and simplicity
could be seen. Indeed the work is a wonderful and splendid proof of poetical
genius and considered in itself it may be classed among the noblest productions
of human mind.

                    When I read the work, two thoughts never left me.
First was how a man without prior training and exercise could compose so
technically perfect poetry. Second thought was about the perplexing resemblance
this work bore to the work of great Iqbal, both as regards basic thought and
style of expression. This identity between the work of Iqbal and Gabriel was
given out by Dr. Javed Iqbal, the son of Allama Iqbal in his review that is
included in this work of Gabriel, as the echo of Iqbal and identical in
thought. The fact that Iqbal is a poet immutable while his standard and status
is unapproachable. And also that no attempt at parody has ever approached even
to an appreciable point of resemblance, not to speak of perfect identity with
the original due to the different intellectual levels of the original and the
imitator. Here was a cast in which all the previous assumptions were shattered.
I, therefore, decided to meet Allama Yousuf Gabriel for information. Following
is the gist of what Gabriel said:-

                    “Allamah Iqbal died in 1938. It was a coincidence
that on the day the Allamah sahib died in Lahore,
I was in Sialkot,
Allamah Sahib’s birth place. At that time I was totally ignorant of my future
destiny. In 1942 in my 25th year I was assigned my mission in Mussayyib in Iraq, a mission
in succession to that of Iqbal. It was to save God’s creation from the two-fold
devastation of atomic hell. By two–fold is meant the atomic devastation in
this present transient world as well as in the next eternal world. In 1945 the
appearance of atomic bomb afforded a proof and ushered in a new era. My address
was in English and to the entire human community. And address originating from
the Quran, corroborated by science. Obviously the Islamic Ummah would be
expected to play a prominent part in such a movement as their religious duty.
But unfortunately the Islamic ummah was not in a position to play any part
therein. The anxiety of Allamah Iqbal for Islamic Ummah is not unknown. My mind
too, despite my obscurity might have been in a state of distress about their
plight, yet I was miserable and insignificance, in the commonwealth of nations,
pre-occupied with my work that was entailed by my mission. My poetical work
therefore has to be viewed in that light as a warning trumpet to awaken the
Islamic Ummah to their duty in the atheistic and atomic calamity of the world.

                    It was one winter night in 1962, my 45th year
that I was laboring to get some sleep after the day long routine academic
mental torture. But the sleep would not come. I lay in my bed in a supine
posture, face up, and wide aware, that I perceived a human figures, like a
picture a few feet high and a little to the right over my head. That was a
mental vision. I did not turn my head to see with my eyes. He was man of
brilliant yellow colour and had the features of a Kashmiri. Suddenly I felt a
stir in my mind and lines of Urdu poetry began to appear therein. These were
six in number on the pattern of Iqbal’s famous poem “Shikwa”. Then
there was profuse perspiration and I was lost in Sleep. Next morning I noted
down the lines. The first line read:-

‘The spirit of Iqbal I am,

Have come in the guise of
Gabriel.

                    Thereafter, while lying in bed after the day long
routine study, or when walking or travelling in the bus I composed poetry to
the year 1969, till about 2000 verses were accumulated. A curious circumstance
is worth mentioning. Namely, that whenever I was engaged in composing poetry, I
often sensed the presence of Allamah Iqbal a few feet behind me, dressed in
white Muslim apparel, and floating in air a few inches above the ground, and
waving his hands before him continually right hand and left hand as if weaving
the cloth and tossing the invisible shuttle to left and to right and
continually went into the motion with his hands like a weaver tossing the
shuttle left and right while weaving the cloth. His presence meant a peculiar
kind of awe to me. I have since my knowledge of always felt an inmate affinity
existing between his mind and mine. He was a peerless master in his field and
was a great and good master. And although I might have had poetical genius, yet
the credit of my poetical work justly goes to him. Another circumstance which
deserved mention is that Allamah Iqbal’s verse

“I will keep it, to be sung.
In my throat is a Gabriel-stirring song, which I will studiously keep for the
la-makan (that is where I go after death)”.

This particular verse was
not present in my mind when I began the poetical work, nor even occurred to me
during the entire course of writing my poetry. It is now, that its portentous
significance dawned upon me. Strange are the works of Scheming providence. Hali’s
dirge; Iqbal’s protest (Shikwa) Complaint; Gabriel’s Naara (Yell). If you
please you can say Gabriel stirred by the song of Iqbal blew a trumpet to
awaken the dead out of his grave.

Abdul Ghaffar AAmir,

Daily Pakistan
Observer,

Islamabad

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Do a Google search on the Barbary pirates. You’ll see we have never lived in peace with these people. You’ll see how they picked a fight with us (declared jihad) from our nation’s inception.

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“Jews and Christians were tolerated as dhimmis – like elsewhere in other Islamic lands – and could not build new churches or synagogues nor restore the old ones. Segregated in special quarters, they had to wear discriminatory clothing. Subjected to heavy taxes, the Christian peasantry formed a servile class attached to the Arab domains; many abandoned their land and fled to the towns. Harsh reprisals with mutilations and crucifixions* would sanction the Mozarab (Christian dhimmis) calls for help from the Christian kings. Moreover, if one dhimmi harmed a Muslim, the whole community would lose its status of protection, leaving it open to pillage, enslavement and arbitrary killing..”

Please continue your education by visiting the
Brigitte Gabriel site–American Congress for Truth.
She is not politically correct as she discloses
first-hand knowledge of the Islamic agenda.

Thank you and peace. “We hang together or we will
hang separately.”

The one thing that remains true…Others have pointed out that IN THE PAST other religions have committed brutality in the name of God. What no one can say is who exactly, other than Muslims, are committing honor killings and brutally slaughtering innocent women in 2009. It’s great to bring up that Jews killed people back in the day. Whatever. That’s not the point. I believe this country should take a major stand and impose sanctions on any country that promotes this brutality. Good lord this is the 21st Century and these barbarians need to stop.

Consider the list of OPEC members.

For sure… which kind of begs the question if whether the wealth from oil has led to corruption and resentment from these producers toward the end users of the oil. But that is for another day. There are no doubt reserves elsewhere as well. Finding reserves in places such as Africa could certainly help them as well, again provided the wealth was managed. I think we are past the days of not caring where we spend our wealth and to whom we transfer it. Wealth in itself is not a good nor a bad thing, in the right hands it can be a powerful force for good… in the wrong hands a powerful force for evil.

I remain on the side of my sisters around the world. And I remain 100% against the religion of Islam for promoting this terror against women. It’s in the Koran, by the way, to “beat your wife” if she resists you. Nice. I don’t see that in my Bible.

It’s great that people here literally go on the verbal attack if someone says word one negative about Hillary. But it’s okay for a religion to behead women in other countries. Very sad.

Go on then? WHo and what is he? I understand he is the President of the United States.

No. We elect our presidents not select them. A political party stealing other candidates’ delegates does not an election make. However, we’re getting so many selected ones that we will have to start another list: Elected presidents and selected presidents.

After 8 years of hearing that “terrorists” are coming to get us, I am beyond surprised that the whole U. S. government thinks these terrorists detailing how to bring antrax in to maximize U. S. deaths is not a worry.

Mr. Soertoro, like his clone Bush, must also be tired of “swatting [terrorist] flies” because this has been circulating out there for awhile

Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 2009

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-2488.htm

And like Mr. Bush ignoring the August 6 PDB outlining terrorists threats, Mr. Soertoro/Obama (still no legal verification of name) is rumored to have struck a secret deal with Bush’s kissing close old Saudi friends, Saudi King Abdullah. Being in the worst of economic times, I do not enjoy having my tax dollars go to support any group, be they Hamas, al Qaida or any other terrorist group. It’s time We the People prove that we still have the pioneer spirit that created this great democracy and “Don’t thread on me!” determination of our forefathers.