"Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua" (Template:Lang-ur), also known as "Bachche Ki Dua", is an Urdu language dua, or prayer, in verse form authored by Muhammad Iqbal in 1902.[1] The poem has been set to music and sung in morning school assembly almost universally in Pakistan,[2][3] and in Urdu-medium schools in India.[4][5]
The Imam of the Jama Masjid, Delhi, Muhibullah Nadwi, sang it as a boy in an English-medium primary school in India in the 1940s.[6] Even earlier, the du'a was broadcast by All India Radio, Lucknow, a few months after Iqbal's death in 1938.[7]
The song has long been sung in the private The Doon School in Dehradun, India, in a secular morning assembly ritual.[8] The song has also been interpreted by an all-women's American bluegrass music band, Della Mae, sponsored by the US State Department, which toured Islamabad and Lahore in Pakistan in 2012.[9]
In October 2019, Furqan Ali, the headmaster of a government-run primary school in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, India, was suspended by the district education authorities following complaints by two Hindu nationalist organizations Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal that the song, which was being recited in the school's morning assembly, was a "madrasa prayer."[10] Ali was later reinstated but transferred to another school.[11]
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References
- ↑ Iqbal, new dimensions: a collection of unpublished and rare Iqbalian studies{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Sang-e-Meel Publications(2003). ISBN 978-969-35-1433-9
- ↑ Iqbal's Dream. Pak Poetry 24(21 January 2021).
- ↑ Joint event to be held on Shakespeare and Iqbal in UK(3 November 2016).
- ↑ Punjab portraits{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Sang-e-Meel Publications(1992). ISBN 978-969-35-0189-6
- ↑ [{{{url}}} Naib Hain Hum: Interview with Waleed Iqbal (Urdu)]. Chauthi Dunya(8 June 2015).
- ↑ Madrasas in the Age of Islamophobia{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. SAGE Publications(12 February 2020). ISBN 978-93-5328-930-0
- ↑ THE INDIAN LISTENER: Vol. III. No. 20. Lucknow, 8:15 PM (7th OCTOBER 1938){{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. All India Radio(7 October 1938)
- ↑ Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School{{#if:Srivastava|, Srivastava}. Routledge(27 September 2005). ISBN 978-1-134-68358-1 Quote: "The peculiarity of an Indian 'secular' ceremony which includes no references to Islam is too obvious to labour."
- ↑ Lab pay aati hai dua… strikes a chord. Dawn(Nov 14, 2012).
- ↑ How an Iqbal poem got a Muslim headmaster suspended in India. The Express Tribune(22 October 2019).
- ↑ Suspended UP headmaster reinstated with a warning. Outlook India(20 October 2019).