Speaking at the commemorative function on Allama Iqbal's 130th birth anniversary, President Anwar Hussain Siddiqui of the Islamic University pained that while the national poet in his work had spread the message of the unity of the Muslim world, the people of his own country were divided and busy confronting each other.
He praised the Women's Campus for organising the Iqbal function, regretting that, in the recent years, his university had denied recognition to Iqbal's work pertaining to national reconstruction.
Professor Dr Manzoor Ahmad, the University Rector, who is a scholar of international eminence, said the women students that Iqbal would help them to ascend to those heights where it was possible to have communication with the creator of universe, the God Almighty.
Dr Professor Manzoor Ahmad in his concluding speech as the chief guest mentioned that Iqbal's poetry was full of rich spiritual experiences which appealed to the readers and made them look up to the Almighty for guidance in temporal and spiritual life.
The key-note lecture was delivered by the Director of Allama Iqbal Academy at Lahore. Dr Suhail, who spoke on the theme of Islamic law and its reinterpretation in the context of Allama Iqbal's six lectures on Reconstruction of Islamic Thought.
After a lengthy discourse arguing that Ijtihad, research and interpretation of ideas, in the four Islamic jurisprudence was a continuing process, which had never thought.
He agreed with the question of a woman student that the laws passed by a legislature was a modern equivalent of Ijma, collective endorsement by the public.
However, he avoided the question, also asked by the same student, whether the modern day legislator really possessed the qualification for certifying the correctness of their Ijma process. Dr Suhail added they could ask for guidance from theological scholars on these matters, and this was provided for in present day Pakistan in Islamic Ideological Council and the Shariat Court. The well-known poet Anwar Masood read a Hamd, and Sibghatullah Zaidi a naat at the function.