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    2017: The Battle for Marghdeen
    2017: The Battle for Marghdeen
    2017: The Battle for Marghdeen
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    2017: The Battle for Marghdeen

    By Khurram Shafique

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    Marghdeen is the name of the ideal society conceived by Iqbal, the foremost Muslim thinker of modern times, in 1932. It is a world where life is inside-out, people know their destinies and there is no poverty, neediness, crime or injustice. In 2017: The Battle for Marghdeen, the author shows how such a society can be achieved in a short space of time, as long as we are prepared to change our perception of history and other domains of knowledge.

    This book presents the basic principles for achieving Marghdeen. They are illustrated with examples from modern history. There is a special emphasis on Pakistan and the Muslim world, but the principles can be applied anywhere in the world.

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    “One of the finest achievements of the human mind is to see, to understand, and to put the things seen and understood into a greater perspective. With Khurram Ali Shafique, some kind of thinking of the heart has returned into the arena: a greater perspective, so to speak.”

    Dr. Thomas Stemmer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKhurram Shafique
    Release dateAug 13, 2012
    ISBN9780957141629
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      2017 - Khurram Shafique

      2017

      The Battle

      for

      Marghdeen

      Khurram Ali Shafique

      Libredux Publishing

      Contents

      Copyright information

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Prologue

      1. Peak Moments

      New beginnings

      Social contracts

      Destiny befalls

      The spirit of modern times

      Summary

      2. The Guiding Principle

      The hunt for an ideology

      A paradigm of love

      The collective ego

      Free will

      Summary

      3. The Seven Stages

      The secret laws of harmony

      The essence of Unity

      Collective self-development

      The universal spring

      Summary

      4. Turning Points

      The probable impossible

      Nothing but the truth

      Half-truths

      The natural history of a human society

      Summary

      5. What Is To Be Done?

      Marghdeen

      The Message of the East

      The new human being

      Unity, Faith, Discipline

      Summary

      6. Universal Social Reconstruction: a manifesto

      Brave new world

      The syllabus for Marghdeen

      An organic model of social sciences

      Blinkers to be removed

      Summary

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      2017: The Battle for Marghdeen

      Copyright © Aug 2012 Khurram Ali Shafique

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      ISBN: 978-0-9571416-2-9

      This is the first time that the history of our times is being seen through the lens of a modern thinker who has the greatest following among the masses of the Muslim World and also enjoys a high stature among the academics of the West. Let’s not be surprised if something turns up which was not to be expected.

      "Given character and healthy imagination, it is possible to reconstruct this world of sin and misery into a veritable paradise."

      Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938)

      About the Author

      Khurram Ali Shafique is an historian and educationist, and the author of biographies, screenplays and numerous articles. He is the founding director of Marghdeen Learning Centre and is also retained as research consultant at the Iqbal Academy, Pakistan.

      Shafique’s publications include The Republic of Rumi: A Novel of Reality (2007), Samandar Ki Awaz Suno (in Urdu, 1993) and a comprehensive biography of Iqbal in Urdu in six volumes (three of which have been published so far). His Iqbal: an Illustrated Biography (2006) won the Presidential Iqbal Award and is being translated into eight languages.

      At the time of writing, he is based in Coventry, UK.

      Visit his website at http://www.marghdeen.com

      Email: khurramsdesk@gmail.com

      Introduction

      Khurram Ali Shafique has one of those rare gifts of being able to find patterns in the most unexpected of places. His discovery of the ‘seven stages’ in Iqbal’s works, (having first seen the connection between Iqbal’s epic poem Javid Nama and his famous Reconstruction lectures) is most intriguing and has wider implications for the study of history with an essentially inductive method. This is not to suggest it is a tool of prediction, but it does provide a method for analysing the psychological direction in which a given society is moving as a ‘collective ego’. Moreover, it serves to illustrate the universal principles that motivate all nations in pursuit of a Higher goal, and to also show what happens when these same principles are neglected.

      In this work Mr. Shafique has looked at Pakistan (and also Bangladesh) as a case in point. The most interesting part of the cycle can be seen at stage four – the ‘freedom’ stage (1947-67). At first glance it seems that Pakistan is not moving as we might predict in light of the cycle of stages. As Mr. Shafique shows, this is because the ‘freedom’ stage marks the point at which individuals and small sections of Pakistani society actively began to focus on individualistic goals instead of collective goals.

      Some commentators on the history of Pakistan have similarly concluded that there is a point of departure from the ‘Pakistan idea’ in the same period. The main difference between most of these commentators and Mr. Shafique however is that Mr. Shafique has illuminated the fundamental reason for the departure in clear terms. The Pakistan idea was the Indian Muslims’ collective basis of partition in 1947, but the point of departure also becomes manifest soon after 1947. The implications for the later stages, especially the final one we have entered as of 2007 (‘creation’), are very interesting indeed, if not alarming, depending on how one interprets the data.

      Yet Mr. Shafique has also shown that surface appearances rarely if ever represent the whole of reality. In fact the decision and actions taken by a

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