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A lifetime achievement award was conferred on eminent historian, researcher and Jinnah scholar Porf Sharif Al Mujahid by the Jinnah Society at Karachi Gymkhana.
Despite the age factor Prof Mujahid, as he always does, delivered an eloquent speech on the occasion. He first thanked the orgnisers of the event and the guests who attended it for showering affection on him and then talked about his favourite subject: M.A. Jinnah. But he developed his thesis by saying that he’s going to focus his address on Iqbal and Jinnah. He said our national poet Iqbal was always rawan and dawan in his unbounded poetry. In that context he quoted couplet:
Dasht to dasht hain darya bhi na chore hum ne
Behr-i-Zulmaat mein dora diyey ghorey hum ne
[Not just land, we covered the vast expanse of the rivers
And rode our horses into the darkest of worlds].
