LAHORE - Addressing Iqbal Day function at Alhamra on Thursday, Allama Iqbals grandson, Waleed Iqbal narrated the tale of the last night of his grandfather quoting from his father Javaid Iqbals book, Zinda Rood. Waleed told the audience that Allama Iqbal had realized that night that it was his last night in the world. On hearing the sound of footsteps of my father Javaid Iqbal, Allama inquired who he was. My father replied this is Javaid, upon which Allama asked my father to prove your worth as true son of Iqbal. Allama then asked his close friend Ch Muhammad Hussain who was sitting close to him at that time to read out last lines of Javaid Naama for my son Javaid Iqbal. When his condition deteriorated during the night (April 21 1938), my grandfather refused to take medicine saying that it contained opium (sleep-inducing content) and he did not want to die in coma. At 3pm on the same night, Mian Muhammad Shafi (Meem Sheen) then called for Hakeem Muhammad Hassan Qureshi but he was not available. In the morning at 5 pm, Dr. Abdul Qayyum, Meem Sheem and Raja Hassan Akhtar went to a nearby mosque to say Fajjar prayer, and Iqbals old servant Ali Bakhsh was the only person left with him. When calls for prayer were coming from different directions, Allama placed his hands on his chest and complained of severe heart pain. Ali Bakhsh took him into his lap and Iqbal breathed his last amid sounds of calls for prayer which were still reaching his room. He further told Iqbal had desired to be buried beside the historic Baadshahi Mosque, but the then Punjab Chief Minister Sir Skinder Hayat Khan refused him a place for burial near the Mosque. It was only after intervention from the Viceroy of India that Iqbal was buried near the Mosque as per his will. The first funeral prayer was attended by over twenty thousand people at Islamia College Railway Road and the second one outside Baadshahi Mosque. The then Imam of the Mosque, Moulana Ghulam Murshid led the prayer which was attended by over sixty thousand people.