Iqbal was born on 9 November 1877 in an ethnic Kashmiri family in Sialkot within the Punjab Province of British India (now in Pakistan).[19] His family was Kashmiri Pandit (of the Sapru clan) that converted to Islam[20] in the 15th century[21] and which traced its roots back to a south Kashmir village in Kulgam.[22] In the 19th century, when the Sikh Empire was conquering Kashmir, his grandfather's family migrated to Punjab. Iqbal's grandfather was an eighth cousin of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, an important lawyer and freedom fighter who would eventually become an admirer of Iqbal.[23] Iqbal often mentioned and commemorated his Kashmiri lineage in.
Iqbal was four years old when he was admitted to a mosque to learn about the Qur'an. He learned the Arabic language from his teacher, Syed Mir Hassan, the head of the madrasa and professor of Arabic at Scotch Mission College in Sialkot, where he matriculated in 1893.[32] He received an Intermediate level with the Faculty of Arts diploma in 1895.[15][30][33] The same year he enrolled at Government College University, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, English literature and Arabic in 1897, and won the Khan Bahadurddin F.S. Jalaluddin medal as he performed well in Arabic.[30] In 1899, he received his Master of Arts degree from the same college and had the first place[clarification needed] in the University of the Punjab.[15][30][33].
Iqbal's father, Sheikh Noor Muhammad (died 1930), was a tailor, not formally educated, but a religious man.[25][26] Iqbal's mother Imam Bibi, from a Punjabi[27] family long settled in Sambrial (a town of Sialkot District),[28] was described as a polite and humble woman who helped the poor and her neighbours with their problems. She died on 9 November 1914 in Sialkot.[29][30][31][full citation needed] Iqbal loved his mother, and on her death he expressed his feelings of pathos in an elegy:[25].
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Iqbal married three times under different circumstances.[34]
His first marriage was in 1895, when he was 18 years old. His bride, Karim Bibi, was the daughter of a physician, Khan Bahadur Ata Muhammad Khan. Her sister was the mother of director and music composer Khwaja Khurshid Anwar.[35][36] Their families arranged the marriage, and the couple had two children; a daughter, Miraj Begum (1895–1915), and a son, Aftab Iqbal (1899–1979), who became a barrister.[34][37] Another son is said to have died after birth in 1901.[38]
Iqbal's second marriage was with Mukhtar Begum, and it was held in December 1914, shortly after the death of Iqbal's mother the previous November.[14][30] They had a son, but both the mother and son died shortly after birth in 1924.[34]
Later, Iqbal married Sardar Begum, and they became the parents of a son, Javed Iqbal (1924–2015), who was to become a judge, and a daughter, Muneera Bano (b. 1930).[34][38] One of Muneera's sons is the philanthropist-cum-socialite Yousuf Salahuddin.[38] this is the personal life of our national poet
yes iqbal is the great and my favourite poet