[boleroman]

Allama Sir Dr Muhammed Iqbal (RA) had got, apart from other training, German education. His writing are filled with idealism-not really surprising for the German connection. And he is also known as poet philosopher. Some people feel that he would have been great philosopher if he would have developed his idea of khudi (self, may be ego) further. I have seen portions of an Urdu documentary in which the narrator (perhaps because of the narrator's leftist bent) asserts that there was Islamic socialism in Iqbal's writings. Now all these isms are external to Islam and therefore it will not be difficult to find problems with his writings. Apart from the things I have mentioned above there is an obvious current of rebellion in his writings. This, as you too have identified, is not in line with the requirement of abdiat. Now having said all these things one is still obliged to take the the stock of things as a whole. Moreover since he is no more we are also obliged to make every effort to do taweel for him. Personally this sinner feels that one does not have to try too much to do that for Allama Iqbal. In the overall view he'll come out in the green and not in the red. But one has of course to do some work for that. As a result one will be safe to put Iqbal on a high pedestal as a Muslim. In any case there is no doubt about the fact that he was an Islamist-a man inclined towards Islam. And what more one requires?
(My two paisas.)
Wassalam