From a curious article Echoes of Naipaul-Nadira affair (http://hindunet.org/hvk/articles/0202/186.html):
http://www.hvk.org/2002/0202/186.html
"Iqbal's pride in Brahmin ancestry
Iqbal, a third generation convert from Sapru Pandits of Kashmir had once in a verse challenged a Syed, the highest caste Muslim directly descended from the Prophet's clan, to dare match him in superior philosophic wisdom inherited from Iqbal's Shiva-worshipping Kashmiri Pandit forefathers as follows:
Main asal ka Somnati
Aaba meray Lati aur Manaati
Tu Syed Hashmi ki aulad
Meri khaak kaf-e-Brahmin zaad
Hai philosophy meri rag rag main Poshida hai resh-a-gul main.
�I am the descendant of a family of true worshippers of Somnath (Shiva). My Kashmiri Pandit ancestors were devotees of the gods named Lam and Manaat (whose idols were removed from Kaaba by Prophet Muhammad after conquest of Mecca). You may belong to the highest Muslim caste of Hashmi Syeds. But my mortal body of five elements (panchbhut) has been incarnated in a Brahmin family. Philosophy is, suffused (hidden) in every vein of my body, blossoming like a flower in its every atom.�"
http://www.hvk.org/2002/0202/186.html
"Iqbal's pride in Brahmin ancestry
Iqbal, a third generation convert from Sapru Pandits of Kashmir had once in a verse challenged a Syed, the highest caste Muslim directly descended from the Prophet's clan, to dare match him in superior philosophic wisdom inherited from Iqbal's Shiva-worshipping Kashmiri Pandit forefathers as follows:
Main asal ka Somnati
Aaba meray Lati aur Manaati
Tu Syed Hashmi ki aulad
Meri khaak kaf-e-Brahmin zaad
Hai philosophy meri rag rag main Poshida hai resh-a-gul main.
�I am the descendant of a family of true worshippers of Somnath (Shiva). My Kashmiri Pandit ancestors were devotees of the gods named Lam and Manaat (whose idols were removed from Kaaba by Prophet Muhammad after conquest of Mecca). You may belong to the highest Muslim caste of Hashmi Syeds. But my mortal body of five elements (panchbhut) has been incarnated in a Brahmin family. Philosophy is, suffused (hidden) in every vein of my body, blossoming like a flower in its every atom.�"
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