Muhammad Iqbal was a poet, Philosopher, Lawyer, Theorist and Politician from Punjab, British India, whose poetry in Urdu and Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era,who penned 'Saare jahan se achaa hindustaan hamara', and 'Lab pe aati hai dua ban ke tamanna meri'. and whose vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India was to inspire the creation of Pakistan