Jenin Massacre: never-ending torture to Palestinian Muslims

‘COMPLAINING to Iqbal: Dialogue with the Dead’ (also titled ‘SMS to Sir Muhammad Iqbal’) is a poem written by the late Malaysian poet and public intellectual Mohd Kamal Hassan (1942–2023). Inspired by his trip to Spain, the poem provides a concise account of the pitfalls of the international order that he calls ‘the New World Disorder.’ It talks about the predicaments of various global communities — including the Palestinians — over the years leading to the poem’s publication in 2002.

In respect of the question of Palestine, Kamal Hassan uses the literary device of an apostrophe and addresses the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) in the following way: