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Author: Syed Faizan Bukhari

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Shikwa - The Complaint by Allama Iqbal
Episode 1
Wednesday, 25 March, 2020

Shikwa or The Complaint is arguably Dr, Sir Muhammad Iqbal's most famous work. Presented in the April of 1911, Shikwa's narrator is a Muslim who submits a complaint in the court of God regarding the conditions of his kind. Inspired by John Milton's Paradise Lost, it turns into a frustrated remonstrance. The long poem, or Nazm, has a great dramatic quality to it which makes it a great piece to read, listen to or perform.