# Why Muhammad Iqbal Stood Up over Turkish Airspace

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119587945095335983
- Source account: [@X2_GSGES](https://x.com/X2_GSGES)
- Source language: Turkish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:13
- Published: 2026-11-09
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace) Actually, I, uh, came to know myself, my people, uh, and a little about Pakistan, too.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=5) Yes. Uh, you know Muhammad Iqbal. Pakistan's renowned intellectual.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=10) Wake from your deep sleep, wake from deep sleep.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=12) Yes, uh, and also its national poet. One day, as Muhammad Iqbal was traveling from Pakistan to Europe in the 1930s, uh, when the plane entered Turkish airspace, the pilot announced, “We are now in Turkish airspace.”

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=30) Muhammad Iqbal heard this and stood up and stood there silently for about thirty seconds, about a minute.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=36) He just stood there in silence. His friends, the people beside him, were astonished.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=41) When he sat back down, they asked, “Iqbal, when Turkey was announced, why did you stand up and wait there like that?”

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=49) Then he gave that magnificent definition that describes us as a nation.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=53) He said, “We have entered the land of such a nation that This nation guarded Islam for a full five hundred years and championed the oppressed. I mean.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=62) And this land is also where Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi rests.

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=68) Out of respect for this nation, I feel compelled to stand up.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/JPnnhH6ljW3O/en/why-muhammad-iqbal-stood-up-over-turkish-airspace?t=71) Magnificent.