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Everyone who is acquainted with Iqbal's genius-be it through his unbelievably beautiful and thought• pregnant poetical works in Persian and Urdu, or through his epoch• making philosophical discourses, in English, on the intellectual and social structure of Islam-feels the loss of this personality as the greatest blow to Muslim life in India.
The glory of Iqbal's name and work will shine for ever; but his active presence, his loving spirit to which his nation, our Muslim nation, has been accustomed to turn for guidance as to a light in the midst of darkness, is no more: and there is darkness in our .
-1 The news of his death reached us at the moment when the present issue of ISLAMIC CULTURE was leaving the press.
Inayarullah-s-already well-known to our readers through his learned reviews of orientalist works-unrolls before our eyes the picture of a glorious epoch of Muslim culture.
It reviews the work of the great orientalist, the centenary of whose death falls in this year.