Muhammad Iqbal
Poet-philosopher of Sialkot and Lahore, writing in Urdu and Persian, who wrote a celebrated poem on Guru Nanak and later argued for a Muslim homeland.
In their words
Famous linesਸਾਰੇ ਜਹਾਂ ਸੇ ਅੱਛਾ ਹਿੰਦੋਸਤਾਂ ਹਮਾਰਾ, ਹਮ ਬੁਲਬੁਲੇਂ ਹੈਂ ਇਸ ਕੀ, ਯਿਹ ਗੁਲਸਿਤਾਂ ਹਮਾਰਾ।
سارے جہاں سے اچھا ہندوستاں ہمارا، ہم بلبلیں ہیں ایس کی، یہ گلستاں ہمارا۔
Better than all the world is our Hindustan; we are its nightingales, and it is our garden.
Tarana-e-Hind, in Urdu (1904)
Muhammad Iqbal was born in 1877 in Sialkot, studied in Lahore, Cambridge and Munich, and became the greatest poet of Urdu and Persian of the twentieth century and a philosopher of Islamic revival.
His early poems include 'Saare Jahan se Achha', the song of India, and a celebrated poem on Guru Nanak, which says that the land of India was awakened from its dream by a perfect man from the Punjab. Later he turned to the ideal of a Muslim community, and in 1930 at Allahabad proposed a Muslim state in north-west India.
He died in Lahore in 1938 and is buried beside the Badshahi Mosque; Pakistan honours him as its national poet.