Iqbal was a poet of 20 century, but in his poetry there is a wholesome fusion of the physical and metaphysical, a mutally inclusive combination of the material and the moral. His poetry transcends time and space, and it is not easy to draw a line between the earthly and the heavenly thoughts in it. He was a successor in a long line of Persian and Urdu poets of Iran and the sub-continent, culminating in Mirza Asadullah Khan ‘Ghalih’ (1797-1869), who is ...
