GABRIEL AND SATAN By IQBAL

Gabriel:
My old friend,
How is the world of sight and sound?

Satan:
Pain and passion; quest and yearning.

Gabriel:
Thou never talkest of anything but the heavens.
Is there no cure for thy constant pain?

Satan:
Thou knowest not, alas, the secret of my pain!
The loss I have suffered, has increased my passion more-,
How silent is this world; desolate and wild!
I cannot ever live here; I cannot!
For one whose despair throbs in the heart of the universe,
What is better-despair, or hope?

Gabriel:
By thy refusal thou hast lost thy place in heaven—
And disgraced the angels in the eyes of the Lord.

Satan:
My courage gave a speck of dust the impulse to grow;
My cunning is the fabric of man’s intellect.
Thou watchest the war of good and evil, safely ashore,
And who is battered by the storm-thou or I?
Ask God, if thou hast the time to ask:
Whose blood gave colour to Adam’s inglorious tale?
I am a thorn in the Almighty’s mighty heart,
And thou but mumblest His praise day and night

 In his poem, Gabriel put question to satan whether a reconcilliation is possible to which satan  replies it is no longer possible  for me  live in soundless and actionless world.His concept of satan  reflects conception of GOd and man.MILTON'S satan suffers  pains and is crowed defeated angle.in contrast you can see his poem  IQAL's satan  is proud unrepentant deprived of the pleasure of defeat. a confident of almighty.and giver of knowledge and wisdom and also the knower of the secret  of creation and annihlation.IQBAL's satan insult of man an said i m in suffer and pain due to birth of ADA.satan says due to me a man make mistake if i m not man can not make any mistake and do not get anythig.it is me who encourage people do something wrong the man learns by his mistake and  do not make one mistake  time and again .IQBAL'S SATAN is disappionted in man even more than God.He is bitter terribly bitter about man weakness.in this  poem IQBAL  criticize man's miserably condition.a