Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal is the national poet of Pakistan. He was born on 9th November, 1877. This blog is about the life and poetry of Allama Iqbal. This Blog has the poerty of Iqbal in Urdu, Roman Urdu and English translation.

Thursday 3 May 2012

Wife Of Allama iqbal / Wives OF Iqbal / Allama Iqbal wife name

Iqbal's First wife karim Bibi(1874-1947) came from a well-to-do family in Gujrat. Her father Shiekh Ata Muhammad (1850-1922) received the title of 'Khan Bahadur' from the British government in 1877 and was served as a physician. Karim Bibi's marriage with Iqbal took place on May 4, 1893(the same day when Iqbal entrance examination result were announced). the marriage was not very successful and the couple was formally separated sometime between 1910 and 1913. Iqbal continued paying her a stipend till her death.Karim Bibi had one elder brother and four younger sisters, one of whom mothered the famous music composer Khawaja Khursheed Anwar.

Mukhtar Begum(d.1924) was Iqbal's second wife and died in her first childbirth in 1924.Iqbal married her in 1913. She left no offspring.  Iqbal's marriage too Mukhtar was almost case of mistaken identity, we are told by his friend mirza Jalaluddin.
Iqbal and his family were under the impression that they had proposed the daughter of a well-to-do person in Ludhiana(Punjab), but it was only learnt after the marriage 
that Mukhtar was the orphaned niece of the gentleman. However, it was hardly an issue and Iqbal was quite happy with her.
Mukhtar had an amiable nature and fond of keeping pets, especially cat. Mukhtar and sardar become pregnant around the same time and it is reported that they affectionately decided to exchange their children.
Iqbal accompanied Mukhtar to her parental home for the childbirth and was much moved by her death.
"when i asked her minutes before her death how she was doing she just replied, i am fine, although she was about to die and knew it," He wrote to her older brother Ata Mohammad.
"To bring forth and ordinary human being into this world where he would not even live more than fifty or sixty years the nature gives so much pain to a weak human".


Sirdar begum was an orphaned Kashmiri girl living in Lahore when Iqbal married her in th winter of 1910.Only Nikah was performed on this occasion while the rukhsati was to be held later.
She remained his favorite wife. "it is a strange tale of love. i wish i had known the truth before taking the second wife," He wrote to a friend. Other friends felt a change in his life style: he would nearly spend all his time at home.
Apparently this new routine precipitated the completion of Asrar e Khudi his first long Persian poem and exegesis of his philosophy. Sirdar died of prolonged illness in May 1935, merely the few days after shifting to  their own house Javed Manzil, whhich was purchased and built partially from her saving and jewelery.She left two children(Javed and Munira) behind her.She gave th Javed Manzil to Javed Iqbal before  her death and Allama Iqbal paid the rent of house to Javed till his death. Iqbal never forgot her - he felt that her soul was in contact with him even after her death. "She has often told me that she has been judged and has passed the purgatory," he used to say. 

46 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Hidden Talent and Educational Activities said...

Great info about this great philosopher.................Muhammad Sharif

Hidden Talent and Educational Activities said...

Great info about wife's of Dr. Allama Iqbal Philosopher.

Muhammad Zia Sheikh said...

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Anonymous said...

mujha tu aj he pata chala k allama iqbal k 3 bevian then.

ARSHAD HAQ CHAUDHRY said...

PLEASE CORRECT DATE OF MARRIAGE OF ALLAMA IQBAL'S FIRST MARRIAGE.

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AHMED said...

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Anonymous said...

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Unknown said...

Great knowledge about this great poets. Allama Muhammad Iqbal is interests were in Religion, Philosophy, Art, Politics, Economics, the revival of Muslim life and universal brotherhood of man.

Anonymous said...

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Unknown said...

thanks atleast i got the answer but i have some confusion

awa said...

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Ustad Shah said...

It was almost touching and found very interesting story of the family of such a great poet. I really like him. Allah bless his seoul and bless with knowledge as he received it.

Anonymous said...

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rizwan rajpoot said...

Alama iqbal is great poeter and philaspher..I love pakistan and pak heros

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Unknown said...

what a greatfull inforamation about famous poeter and great philospher Dr.allama iqbal .i do not know before this that how many waives dr. iqbal had .thank u so much for giving us meaningful information about his family .

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allkashmir.blog said...

Can you give information about his First son Aftab Iqbal, where is he and other things

Anonymous said...

I think Allama was a Laurens of Arabia second addition?

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Anonymous said...

I want to know more about him

Anonymous said...

Dear Writer, A lot of information are missing such that; 1.0 Name of father of Mukhtar Bibi (Late), 2.0 Her mother's name, 3.0 Who did the Imamat (name of Nika Khawan?) of the Nika in Qadian, District Gurdaspur, India?, 4.0 What was the relation of Mukhtar Bibi (Late) with Hadhrat Noor-ud-Din, Khalifa-tul-Masih-I(ra)? 5.0 Sir Allama Mammad Iqbal (Late), and Sir Fazal-e-Haq (Late) attended the lecture Sialkot of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Mehdi-e-Maud and Masih-e-Maud (as) on 11/02/1904 together and they were sitting together in first row, and 6.0 Until which year Iqbal remained an Ahmadi Muslims? Please do research and add. Thanks
Pervaiz, NY

CSS FORUM said...

Is this right Allama sahib married with his first wife on 4 may 1893, how much Allama sahib age?

Unknown said...

Sirdar baigam is kashmiri or
Mukhtar begam
I just read a book , and acc to this book mukhtar begam is kashmiri

Unknown said...

"First wife karim Bibi(1874-1947) ...separated sometime between 1910 and 1913. Iqbal continued paying her a stipend till her death...(1947) ...Even 11 years after his own death (1938) ?????

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