Send Your Friend a Life in Diamond Dash

Very rarely in the literary history of the world, two great poets born at different times, belonging to different races, writing in diverse languages, professing different cultures and religion show as many points of similarity in their art and thought as John Milton and Allama Iqbal. When we study Milton and Iqbal, we see that lives of both disclose an extraordinary parallelism. Both started poetry almost form boyhood. At the age of thirty. Milton was the most proficient young man in England and same is Iqbal, after his return from England he was the most accomplished young man in the subcontinent.
Apart from their lives, there are many points of resemblance in the works of Milton and Iqbal. In poetry, both wrote in two languages, Milton writes in Latin and English while Iqbal in Persian and Urdu. Milton contains the illusions of Hebrew History, Greek Mythology, and Iqbal to Islamic History. Milton’s language shows the Latin solidity, while Iqbal’s language always has energy of Arabic words and phrases. Milton wrote his master pieces “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained”, and Iqbal wrote his master pieces “Shikwa” and “Jawab-e-Shikwa”.Both of them used musical resounding words and style. A remarkable resemblance in many aspects is found in their later career. Both Milton and Iqbal took active part in politics.
In his early career, Milton’s passion was to write a great poem. It was the same with Iqbal. But the comparison becomes even more interesting when we study the most prominent features of their art; both have been regarded as poet prophets. Perhaps, the most important feature in order to compare the poetry of Iqbal and Milton is that both have described the religious story of the fall of man according to their own religious point of view. Milton believes in story as is related in the Bible, and Iqbal seeks inspiration from the Holy Quran. In his book, Payam-e -Mashriq, Iqbal wrote a poem, Conquest of Nature, in which he describes the concept of “the fall of man”. This poem is composed of five parts. The first part is about the birth of man, second about the Satan’s refusal, third part is about the temptation of Adam, fourth is what Adam sings on the exit from Paradise and the last part of the poem is the day of judgment: Adam in God’s presence. Similarly, Milton discusses the fall of man in his book Paradise Lost.
Another aspect which is also necessary to describe is that both of them have utilized the spiritual significance of nature. The sentiments expressed by them are so similar that they produce the same desired effect on us.