{"id":357,"date":"2013-07-13T01:27:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=357"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:27:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:31","slug":"128-musstafa-kamil-pasha-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/01-bande-mataram-volume-01\/128-musstafa-kamil-pasha-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-128_Musstafa Kamil Pasha.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nMustafa Kamil Pasha<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>W<\/font><\/span>E<\/font><\/b>
\npublished yesterday among our selections a full account of the life and death of
\nMustafa Kamil Pasha, the great Nationalist leader in Egypt, who has regenerated
\nNationalism in his motherland and will be remembered in history as the chief
\namong the creators of modern Egypt. The early death of this extraordinary man
\nwill be a blow to the movement, but we must remember what we are apt to forget
\nthat the life-work of a great man often does not begin till he dies. While the
\nbody fetters the activities of the spirit within, his work is limited in its
\nscope and imperfect in its intensity, but when the material shackles are struck
\noff by the friendly hand of death, then the spirit ranges abroad in perfect
\nfreedom and the sudden and startling rapidity with which its work develops,
\nforms a theme for the amazement and admiration of posterity. Whatever else
\nMustafa Kamil may have been, he was a sincere and enthusiastic patriot. When he
\nleft Egypt to help the cause of his country in foreign countries, he was
\nwelcomed even in England by those who had the generosity to appreciate
\npatriotism; but the moment it appeared that his work was beginning to bear
\npractical fruit in Egypt itself, a storm of misrepresentation began to beat
\nabout his devoted head which has not even yet ceased. He was denounced as an
\nintriguer, a paid tool of the Khedive, a Turcophil emissary of the Sultan. But
\nEgypt felt the heart of a patriot in his writings and his speeches and her
\npeople responded to his call. The steady growth of the Nationalist Party has
\nbeen mainly the work of Mustafa Kamil. It attained its consummation in the
\nmeaning of the recognised Nationalist Party when he was on the brink of the
\ngrave and his last self-forgetful service to his country was the speech which he
\nrose from his death-bed to deliver upon that memorable occasion.<\/font><\/p>\n


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\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>The programme of the Nationalist Party in Egypt has some resemblances to
\nthat of the Indian Nationalists. Its object is the independence of Egypt, its
\nmethod is the appeal to the<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nself-consciousness
\nof the nation, and its reliance is on the help which God always gives to the
\ncause of righteousness when it is pursued in a lofty and disinterested spirit.
\nIn his earlier career Mustafa relied too much on foreign sympathy and he
\npersisted till the end in clinging to the hope of some assistance, moral if not
\nmaterial, from the foreign Powers financially interested in Egypt. But his trust
\nin this chance of outward help never extended to the folly of expecting British
\nstatesmen to co-operate of deliberate purpose in hastening the day of Egypt’s
\nliberation. He was a statesman as well as a prophet of Nationalism. If he relied
\ntoo much on foreign sympathy, it was because the national sentiment in Egypt was
\nas yet local and he trusted in the moral support of other countries to prevent
\nEngland from putting it down with the strong hand before it had become
\nsufficiently self-conscious to survive oppression. The Sultan stood between
\nEgypt and complete annexation to England, and therefore he always persisted in
\nlaying stress on the suzerainty of the Sultan. The religious solidarity of Islam
\nwas a moral asset in his favour and he insisted on this solidarity but never
\nsuffered it for a moment to interfere with the distinct existence of Egyptian
\nNationality. The cause of Nationality was his first object; the rest merely
\nhelps and supports. Towards the end of his career as the sentiment of
\nNationality grew more and more self-conscious and self-reliant in his
\ncountrymen, he too came to perceive in its fullness the truth that Egypt must
\nrely on herself first and not on others. Foreign help can only be safe and
\nbeneficial if the nation has already grown strong enough to rely mainly on
\nitself for its own separate existence.<\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>Mustafa Kamil was a man of the type of Mazzini in one respect, his
\nintense idealism and lofty idea of cosmopolitan unity embracing national
\nindependence. It is this idealism which will keep Egypt alive and secure the
\nimmortality of the Nationalist movement. When a movement for independence begins
\nwith diplomacy and Machiavellianism, it is doomed to failure as the Carbonari
\nmovement failed in Italy. God is not with it. It does not rely on the eternal
\nprinciples of truth and virtue, but on the finite strength of human intellect
\nand human means and to that finite strength God leaves it. When that strength
\ncomes to its<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nlimits,
\nthere is nothing left, and failure is final. But when a movement takes its stand
\non truth and justice, then it appeals to God Himself and He will see to it that
\nthe trust reposed in Him is not falsified. Failures may come but they will be
\nonly fresh incentives to purer and nobler effort. An immortal power will stand
\nbehind the movement and death will be afraid to come near it. Its
\nleaders
\nmay be snatched<\/span>
\naway <\/span>by the
\nhand of death, hurried into <\/span>exile or
\nimprisonment, given to the hand of the executioner, but fresh leaders will
\narise. Its means may change from time to time, it may pass through ever-new
\nphases and sometimes men may fail to recognise it as the same old movement, but
\nGod is within it always as its eternal and undying Self and it lasts till it
\nreceives its consummation.<\/font><\/p>\n


\nBande
\nMataram<\/i>,
\n<\/i> <\/font> March 3, 1908<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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