Justice (R) Javaid Iqbal takes his last breath at SKMH

Lahore: The great thinker and philosopher Justice (R) Javaid Iqbal took his last breath at SKMH.He was was under treatment for cancer at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in Lahore.

Justice (retired) Javaid Iqbal was born on 5 October 1924 and died in the same month of October 3, 2015. He, was a well reputed Pakistani philosopher and former senior justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan. He is internationally known for his acclaimed publications on philosophy of law and modern Islamic philosophy in reputed international and national journals. He died on 3rd October, 2015.

He was the son of the poet-philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal and authored various books on Pakistan’s nationalism,and political ideology of Pakistan. Apart from philosophy, Javid had a prolific career in Judiciary of Pakistan and was a former Chief Justice of Lahore High Court before elevating to Supreme Court.

Javaid Iqbal was born in Sialkot on 5 October 1924 to Allama Muhammad Iqbal and his second wife, Sardar Begum. His mother died when he was 11, and his father died when he was 14.

Javid Iqbal received the following educational degrees and distinctions: BA (Hon.) degree in 1944 from the Government College, Lahore, MA degree in English, and MA degree in Philosophy (Gold Medallist) in 1948, Punjab, Doctor of Philosophy degree in Philosophy in 1954 from the University of Cambridge, UK, Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln’s Inn, London, in 1956. He has received honorary doctorates from Villanova University, USA, and Selcuk University’.

Dr Javaid Iqbal began as an advocate in Lahore High Court, and later became a judge and Chief Justice of this court. He was also a judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan, and Elected member, Senate of Pakistan.

He has published papers on Islamic political thought, political ideology in Pakistan and the philosophy of his father, Muhammad Iqbal, which were published in national and international journals. During 1960–62 and in 1977, he was the delegate of Pakistan to the United Nations General Assembly.

He has argued in favour of reforms in the Hudud laws of Pakistan.

He is married to Nasira Iqbal, a retired Lahore High Court Judge.

Javid Iqbal’s father,Allama Muhammad Iqbal, named his book, Javid Nama, after his son. He also wrote many poems to Javed Iqbal, indirectly addressing the Muslim youth.

Here is an excerpt from the translation of Bal-i-Jibril (Gabriel’s Wing).

Dr Javid’s publications include the following:

• Ideology of Pakistan (1959)
• Stray Reflections: A Note-Book of Iqbal (1961)
• Legacy of Quaid-e-Azam (1968, published in English and Urdu)
• Mai Lala Faam (1968, collection of papers on Iqbal, in Urdu)
• Zinda Rood (1984, biography of Iqbal in three volumes, in Urdu)^[3][4]
• Afkare-Iqbal (1994, interpretation of Iqbal’s thought)
• Pakistan and the Islamic Liberal Movement (1994).
• Jahan-I Javed : darame, Afsane, Maqale
• Islam and Pakistan’s Identity
• The Concept of State in Islam : A Reassessment
• Apna Greban Chaak, (autobiography)
• Khutbat e Iqbal