- Author Name : Sheikh Abdul Malik
"Iqbal and God - a discourse" by Sheikh Abdul Malik is like a triple-layered, delicious dessert. Comprising the original Urdu text of 31 stanzas of Shikwa and 36 stanzas of Jawaab-e-Shikwa from Baang-e-Dara, with renderings into English and transliteration, the book offers the reader three distinct flavours. Each of these is separate and special in its own way. When taken together, they provide a uniquely combined pleasure to make the work a true treat. The book also impacts on three levels. As a reader-friendly, casy-to-peruse, neatly-laid-out text. As a helpful, potential teaching aid - unusually and equally usable in colleges and universities. As a time-travel tablet that simultaneously Speeds us through the Muslim past, present and a possible future. To use a sweet dish as a simile to classify the book is only to stress its sheer enjoyability. To do so is not to trivialize the subject. The substance of the discourse between the Immortal and 2 mortal Iqbal has a high calorie content of the intellect: and the spirit. By rendering a subtly nuanced master-piece in English that is contemporary without being disregardful of the classical dimension of the original, Sheikh Abdul Malik has also rendered invaluable service by making this treasure accessible to the young generation of today, and young generations to come.