{"id":2849,"date":"2013-07-13T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:10","slug":"188-bande-mataram-3-3-08-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/06-07-bande-mataram\/188-bande-mataram-3-3-08-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-188_Bande Mataram 3-3-08.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tCALCUTTA, March 3rd, 1908 } <\/b> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nMustafa Kamal Pasha
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\nWe published yesterday among our selections a full account of the life and death of Mustafa Kamal Pasha, the great Nationalist
\nleader in Egypt, who has regenerated Nationalism in his motherland and will be remembered in history as the chief among the
\ncreators of modern Egypt. The early death of this extraordinary man will be a blow to the movement, but we must remember
\nwhat we are apt to forget that the life-work of a great man often does not begin till he dies. While the body fetters the
\nactivities of the spirit within, his work is limited in its scope and imperfect in its intensity, but when the material shackles are
\nstruck off by the friendly hand of death then the spirit ranges abroad in perfect freedom and the sudden and startling rapidity
\nwith which its work develops, forms a theme for the amazement and admiration of posterity. Whatever else Mustafa Kamal may
\nhave been, he was a sincere and enthusiastic patriot. When he left Egypt to help the cause of his country in foreign countries, he
\nwas welcomed even in England by those who had the generosity to appreciate patriotism; but the moment it appeared that
\nhis work was beginning to bear practical fruit in Egypt itself, a storm of misrepresentation began to beat about his devoted
\nhead which has not even yet ceased. He was denounced as an intriguer, a paid tool of the Khedive, a Turcophil emissary of the
\nSultan. But Egypt felt the heart of a patriot in his writings and his speeches and her people responded to his call. The steady
\ngrowth of the Nationalist party has been mainly the work of Mustafa Kamal. It attained its consummation in the meeting of
\nthe reorganized Nationalist party when he was on the brink of the grave and his last self-forgetful service to his country was the
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\n speech which he rose from his death-bed to deliver upon that
\nmemorable occasion.
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\n\t\tThe programme of the Nationalist party in Egypt has some
\nresemblances to that of the Indian Nationalists. Its object is the independence of Egypt, its method is the appeal to the
\n\t\tself-consciousness of the nation, and its reliance is on the help which God always gives to the cause of righteousness when it is pursued
\nin a lofty and disinterested spirit. In his earlier career Mustafa relied too much on foreign sympathy and he persisted till the end
\nin clinging to the hope of some assistance, moral if not material, from the foreign powers financially interested in Egypt. But his
\ntrust in this chance of outward help never extended to the folly of expecting British statesmen to co-operate of deliberate purpose
\nin hastening the day of Egypt’s liberation. He was a statesman as well as a prophet of Nationalism. If he relied too much on
\nforeign sympathy, it was because the national sentiment in Egypt was as yet local and he trusted in the moral support of other
\ncountries to prevent England from putting it down with the strong hand before it had become sufficiently self-conscious to
\nsurvive oppression. The Sultan stood between Egypt and complete annexation to England, and therefore he always persisted
\nin laying stress on the suzerainty of the Sultan. The religious solidarity of Islam was a moral asset in his favour and he insisted on this solidarity but never suffered it for a moment to interfere with the distinct existence of Egyptian nationality. The
\ncause of nationality was his first object; the rest merely helps and supports. Towards the end of his career as the sentiment of
\nnationality grew more and more self-conscious and self-reliant in his countrymen he too came to perceive in its fullness the
\ntruth that Egypt must rely on herself first and not on others. Foreign help can only be safe and beneficial if the nation has
\nalready grown strong enough to rely mainly on itself for its own separate existence.
\nMustafa Kamal was a man of the type of Mazzini in one respect, his intense idealism and lofty idea of cosmopolitan unity
\nembracing national independence. It is this idealism which will keep Egypt alive and secure the immortality of the Nationalist
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\n\tmovement. When a movement for independence begins with
\ndiplomacy and Machiavellianism, it is doomed to failure as the Carbonari movement failed in Italy. God is not with it. It does
\nnot rely on the eternal principles of truth and virtue, but on the finite strength of human intellect and human means and to
\nthat finite strength God leaves it. When that strength comes to its limits, there is nothing left, and failure is final. But when a
\nmovement takes its stand on truth and justice, then it appeals to God Himself and He will see to it that the trust reposed in
\nHim is not falsified. Failures may come but they will be only fresh incentives to purer and nobler effort. An immortal power
\nwill stand behind the movement and death will be afraid to come near it. Its leaders may be snatched away by the hand of
\ndeath, hurried into exile or imprisonment, given to the hand of the executioner, but fresh leaders will arise. Its means may
\nchange from time to time, it may pass through ever-new phases and sometimes men may fail to recognize it as the same old
\nmovement, but God is within it always as its eternal and undying Self and it lasts till it receives its consummation.
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