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16 Iqbal and Qur'an Dear friends! In our period, Iqbal who invited people to the Qur'an was a great preacher of human dignity. He openly proclaimed: Human right is dignity of humans Human's place is beyond heavens He said about astrology and astrologers: How can an astrologer know your place from looking at stars? Thou are a fully alive dust, not dependent on position of stars! How well he differentiated between live dust and dead dust: How can the star give the news of my Taqdir? When it itself is helpless up in the outer skies! What a beautiful metaphor “what news it will give”. How beautifully he says at another place? It is useless to complain of God's Taqdir Why aren't thou yourself the God's Taqdir Write your destiny with your own pen God has kept empty your own forehead Allah has given you clean slate. Write your own story on it. This is the message of the entire Qur'an. Dear friends! We started the discussion that any belief, any concept, or any theory, or any school of thought, or any discipline that reduces the sanctity of the freedom of choice and freewill of human beings, or if it becomes a roadblock in its way, then it is against the Qur'an. The Qur'an is a challenge against all such beliefs. Only and only God's rule of law Dear friends! There is only one thing as I have said. The Qur'an has the principles from Allah. These constitute His guidance, which is now permanently preserved in the Qur'an. Allah does not compel anyone to accept His guidance. And, as I have emphasized again and again, He does not want anyone one to accept His guidance by force. He has said: if you wish accept it, or if you wish, reject it. We will not interfere. To the Prophet (PBUH) He said: We know that your heart aches with pain as to why these people are choosing the wrong path and, consequently, are choosing their own destruction. Do you want to force them to accept the right path? You see, Allah does not permit even the Prophet (PBUH) to force people to accept His message? But, now, here we are, where there is only one-way traffic. Someone recited Kalmah so he is a Muslim. Now, if he, after getting to know the real condition of Muslims, wants to go back to his old religion then our religious leaders say: No, you can't. You can enter