Javed Iqbal
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Dr. Javid Iqbal (b. 1924) (Javed Iqbal or Javaid Iqbal), is an eminent scholar and former Chief Justice of Pakistan. He is the son of the great poet-philosopher Dr. Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
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[edit] Education
Born in 1924, Javid Iqbal received the following educational degrees and distinctions:
- BA (Hon.) in 1944 from the Government College, Lahore
- MA in English, and MA in Philosophy (Gold Medalist) in 1948, Punjab
- PhD in Philosophy in 1954 from the University of Cambridge, UK
- Bar-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1956
- Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Villanova University, USA, in 1989
- Honorary Doctorate of Islamic Literature and Science, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, 1990
[edit] Positions held
Starting from 1956, Dr. Javid Iqbal fulfilled the following functions:
- Advocate, Lahore High Court
- Visiting Lecturer at the Punjab University Law College, Lahore
- Visiting Professor for Islamic Culture, University of Mexico
- President, Lahore High Court Bar Association
- Member, Pakistan Bar Council
- Judge, Lahore High Court
- Chief Justice, Lahore High Court
- Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Member, Board of Governors, Government College, Lahore
- Elected member, Senate of Pakistan (Upper House of Parliament).
[edit] Honorary positions and distinctions
From 1985, Dr. Iqbal held the following honorary positions and distinctions:
- Vice-President, Governing Body, Iqbal Academy, Pakistan
- Permanent member, Royal Academy for Islamic Civilisation Research, Amman, Jordan
- Member, International Committee, Kaddafi Human Rights Award, Tripoli, Libya
[edit] Iqbal on his Son
Iqbal named one of his book, Javid Nama, on his son's name. Iqbal also wrote many poems on Javed Iqbal, and indirectly addressing the Muslim youth.
Here is an excerpt from the translation of Bal-i-Jibril (Gabriel's Wing)
TO JAVID
(On Receiving His First Letter From London)
Create a place for thyself in the world of love;
Create a new age, new days, and new nights.
If God grant thee an eye for nature’s beauty,
Converse with the silence of flowers; respond to their love.
Do not be beholden to the West’s artisans,
Seek thy sustenance in what thy land affords.
My ghazal is the essence of my life-blood,
Create thy elixir of life out ‘of this essence.
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.[1]
[edit] Works
His publications include the following:
- Ideology of Pakistan (1959)
- Stray Reflections: A Note-Book of Iqbal (1961)
- Legacy of Quaid-e-Azam (1968, published in English and Urdu)
- Mai Lala Faam (1968, collection of papers on Iqbal, in Urdu)
- Zinda Rood (1984, biography of Iqbal in three volumes, in Urdu)
- Afkare-Iqbal (1994, interpretation of Iqbal's thought)
- Pakistan and the Islamic Liberal Movement (1994).
- Jahan-I Javed : darame, Afsane, Maqale
- Islam and Pakistan's Identity
- The Concept of State in Islam : A Reassessment
- Apna Greban Chaak, (autobiography)
Dr. Iqbal has numerous papers on Islamic political thought, political ideology in Pakistan and the philosophy of Iqbal which were published in national and international journals.
[edit] Family
He is married to Justice Mrs. Nasira Iqbal, a retired Lahore High Court Judge
[edit] Efforts on Women Rights
He work on bringing changes in Hudood Ordinance may be termed as significant. He wrote many papers for NGOs working for Women Rights in Pakistan. According to him, it is not easy to interpretate the thoughts of God, when bringing out ordinances, and that amendments should be brought in Law with respect to time. He participated in the program Zaraa Soochiye hosted by Geo TV where he tried to bring out the loop holes with respect to Hudood Ordinance. Although he feels somber at the idea of not becoming Javed as said by his father on the last night of his life, his work on Hudood Ordinance, if the changes do get through the government, could really make him one.
[edit] More
He participated in numerous congresses all around the world, presented papers and gave lectures on a variety of themes related to Islamic culture, philosophy, languages, politics and particularly the thoughts and works of his father. During 1960-62 and in 1977, Dr. Javid Iqbal was the delegate of Pakistan to the UN General Assembly.
