Iqbal's 'Khudi'

An interpretation of a haunting concept

Iqbal's poetry sprinkling the message of "khudi", is a strong transfiguration of wandering souls into saints. It can bless the ruined and abandoned niche's of the human heart with an unending search for spirituality. It can create lives zealous and fully dedicated to introducing revolution to modern era if aimed at reading the words of wisdom to quench the thirst of soul and to satiate the insatiable desire to the spiritual world. 
It requires the soul that never knows the meaning of " end", for there is no end to self-purgation.
"Khudi", is nothing but a journey of the soul that traverse the toughest path paved all along with thorns to reach " Nowhere". 

" The only journey with no true destination! "
For destiny is Eternity and those who travel it are sacrificing enough to be totally detached from the line putting an end to their journey. 
It is not to everyone out there but to those few rare protagonists whose soul has been composed with the clay of valour and enthusiasm and the holy blood of mysticism flows through their veins. 
Khudi requires to kindle their matter of composition and attain unreachable heights of altruism and incessantly interrogating the soul its meaning of being in this mortal world. 
Ascending the first step is always not easy but it does the favour to put the soul in a clearly defined direction and somewhere in the midst of this journey one may meet its destiny but it must not serve as an impeding force. 

One should be so submerged that not even the name of despondence should be known to it.
It is the very law of nature that not even a trivial thing of this universe can stay away from its originator. Such is the soul of humans! 
These modern catastrophes and crisis are nothing but waywardness of the true purpose of soul creation and putting a deaf ear to the mild tune of soul & conscience.
Eradicating the artificial roots of this flowering tree & altering them with true fertile ones can turn a desert into an oasis, a hell into a divine heaven and this wretched world into spiritual one!

By: Uswa Zainab Tirmizi