''Tolu-e-Islam'' is a historical, political, religious, cultural

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of Muslims of British India and Pakistan. In 1935, according to the instructions of Sir

Muhammad Iqbal Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 187721 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

, Syed Nazeer Niazi initiated and edited a journal named after "

Tulu'i Islam "Tulu'i Islam" ("Dawn of Islam") is an Urdu poem written by Muhammad Iqbal, expounding on the birth and glory of Islam. The name of this poem is the namesake of various organizations and magazines like Tolu-e-Islam (magazine), tolu-i-Islam(magazi ...

", a poem by Iqbal. Niazi also dedicated the first edition of this journal to him. For a long time Iqbal had wanted a journal to propagate his ideas and the aims and objective of the

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Origins

Iqbal was interested in the renaissance of Islam in the world and especially in British India. He was a strong proponent of the political revival of Islam in British India. He delivered his famous lectures published as '' The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam''. "He was also one of the most prominent leaders of the

All India Muslim League The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was a political party founded in 1906 in Dhaka, British India with the goal of securing Muslim interests in South Asia. Although initially espousing a united India with interfaith unity, the Muslim League lat ...

, Iqbal encouraged the creation of a "state in northwestern India for Muslims" in his 1930 presidential address. Iqbal encouraged and worked closely with

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Muhammad Ali Jinnah (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 187611 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pa ...

, and he is known as ''Muffakir-e-Pakistan'' ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), ''Shair-e-Mashriq'' ("The Poet of the East"), and ''Hakeem-ul-Ummat'' ("The Sage of

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")." He wanted to initiate a journal but however due to his busy political and literary life, he could not initiate this journal for a long time. In 1935, three years before his death, he asked his friends and followers to initiate a journal and also suggested the name of the journal himself. Eminent Muslim scholars, including Maulana Aslam Jairajpuri, Ghulam Ahmad Parwez, and Raja Hassan Akhtar were early contributors.

1936 Kitab Khana Tolu-e-Islam

In the edition of September 1936, Niazi announced the creation of "Kitab Khana Tolu-e-Islam" (Publishing house of books of Tolu-e-Islam). For this publishing house Sir

, gave his book "Zerb Kaleem". This publication house published many books on Islam and Pakistan movement. This publisher along with the journal played an important part in the Pakistan movement.

1938 Ghulam Ahmad Parwez

Afterward, this journal was continued by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, who had already contributed many articles in the early editions of this journal. He also named his movement as Tolu-e-Islam ("Resurgence of Islam"). Parwez took the fundamental ideas of Iqbal and elaborated as well as expanded them, (see Ideas of Ghulam Ahmed Pervez.) The journal is still published by Idara Tolu-e-Islam, Lahore. Initially, its goal was to tell the people of British India that according to the

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, ideology and not geographical boundary, was the basis for the formation of

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, and that a politically independent

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was pre-requisite to live in

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After the emergence of Pakistan

After the emergence of

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, the chief objective before (the journal) ''Tolu-e-Islam'' was to interpret Quran through Tasreef ul Ayat; a methodology that involves understanding the Quranic words used at one part in Quran through same root words used in other parts of the Quran; and to transform the basis of the society through implementation of the principle which had inspired the demand for separate Muslim State that is, to infuse Islamic Ideology into the

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{{Reflist Cultural magazines Islamic magazines Magazines established in 1935 Mass media in Lahore Muhammad Iqbal Magazines published in Pakistan

Origins

1936 Kitab Khana Tolu-e-Islam

1938 Ghulam Ahmad Parwez

After the emergence of Pakistan

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