The Allahabad Address (Urdu: خطبہ الہ آباد‎) is a speech by Pakistani scholar Sir Muhammad Iqbal, one of the best-known in Pakistan History. It was delivered by Iqbal during the 25th annual session of the All-India Muslim League, on the afternoon of Monday, 29 December 1930, at Allahabad, British India. In this address Iqbal outlined a vision of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern India, thus becoming the first politician to articulate what would become known as the Two-nation theory—that Muslims are a distinct nation and thus deserve political independence from other regions and communities of India.