Early life
Mohammad Iqbal was born on November 9, 1877 at Sialkot to a Kashmiri father and a Punjabi mother.[7][8] His father, 'Rattan Lal Sapru' was a Kashmiri Hindu of the Sapru clan who converted to Islam and took the name 'Sheikh Nur Mohammad', later he migrated to Punjab, where he married a Punjabi woman named Imam Bibi.[9][10] Iqbal was the first cousin of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, an eminent Indian lawyer and political leader.[10]
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