SHIKWA & JAWAB-I-SHIKWA  (OIP)

Though much of Iqbal's best poetry is written in Persian he is also a poet of colossal stature in Urdu. Shikwa (1909) and Jawab-i-Shikwa (1913) extol the legacy of Islam and its civilising role in history bemoan the fate of Muslims everywhere and squarely confront the dilemmas of Islam in modern times. Shikwa is thus in the form of a complaint to Allah for having let down the Muslims and Jawab-i-Shikwa is Allah's reply to the poet's complaint.