The message of eternity or Jauwid name

Mashallah, with all the human values it represents, Muhammad Iqbal became an enchanting phenomenon in the course of Islamic civilization, a phenomenon that captivated Muslims and others, and called them to pause momentarily to look at themselves, their present, and their future. Iqbal dedicated his entire life to that unique moment that would bring about a renewed revolution in the cosmic order: the moment of returning to the self, looking into the depths of the heart that knows no bounds, and realizing this luminous aspect within the human soul, which is a spark of the divine light itself. Iqbal understood the truth of man and his value; he wanted to teach him the lesson of true humanity, which contains an divine aspect. He understood the truth of the universe, so he called on humans to harness it with the power of both mind and heart, and he recognized the relationship between God and man. He called on people to adopt God's morals and to acquire His attributes so that they may attain immortality. The poem "Javid Nameh" — which we are discussing — is the system in which Iqbal explained many of his ideas poetically and emotionally, ideas that also appeared in "Rejuvenation of Religious Thought in Islam." Moreover, we notice that he also revised and corrected some of these ideas in "Javid Nameh," which some Arab scholars, such as Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Maraqi, Dr. Mohamed Al-Bahy, and Dr. Abdul Halim Mahmoud, took issue with after the book was translated into Arabic in 1955 AD, and about seventeen years after Iqbal's death. God granted me the opportunity to connect with Iqbal’s thought, as reflected in his poetry and collections written in Persian and Urdu, and especially in my research for my PhD in Persian literature, where I studied "The Message of Immortality." Now I present to the Arab reader the fruit of this study, embodied in this book, in which I adopted a new approach to clearly present Iqbal’s thought. I was keen in this study to avoid condensing Iqbal’s ideas into few words; rather, I aimed to expand and shed more light on these ideas. Besides the introductory sections, which I used to introduce the idea and subject of the message, I also tried my best to start each chapter with a general introduction, aiming to define its main features. To give a general opinion on these features, I revisited the ideas Iqbal previously expressed on the chapter’s topic or its details, so as to understand the specific environment in which his ideas on important issues developed. I did not leave a single verse from the 1959 verses of the message without analyzing it, linking it to the previous one, and working to integrate it into the entire system.