Javed Iqbal (judge, born 1924)

Dr. Javid Iqbal (b. 1924) (Javed Iqbal or Javiad Iqbal), is an eminent scholar and judge from Pakistan. He is the son of the great poet-philosopher Iqbal. He was also the Chief Justice of Lahore High Court.

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 Philosopy (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

Positions held

Starting from 1956, Dr. Javid Iqbal fulfilled the following functions:

Advocate, High Court, Lahore,
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).

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

Iqbal on his Son

Iqbal nammed one of his book, Javed 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 Ball-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]

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.

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.

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