ಾ ಧಾಗಾ। ལྡུས། হগওয়ার্দী, সী, আই. এম. ரீலே , அடி : ইত্যাদি ইসলমান আলোচনা সমিতির সভাপতি। (डिग्न डिझे ੋ ಗ ; - ব ) । At the call for Jihad a thousand Muslims would rush forth and gladly lay down their lives for the holy Iaith, But it is harder to live than to die for Islam. In order to grasp the full meaning of life, you have only too look back and contemplate the grand and commanding personality of that Great Son of Arabia who was at once an emperor, a conqueror, a warrior, a poet, a philosopher, a prophet and a scer. Life—not death—is writ large on the dramatic history of the achievements of Muhammad, the son of Abullah. It was not by the vulgar Jihad, the holy war, with whose name and fame you are all familiar, that he established his empire in the hearts and imaginations of the faithful. It was by the Jihad ul-Akbar—the greater Jihad—the sacrifice of the self at the altar of duty. Not only he but every great man who has left his impress on the pages of Time, every one who has robbed death of its darkness and annihilation of its terrors, every man who has asserted himself above all his fellows, has done so by a supreme act of self-effacement, self-abnegation and self-denial. Prince Siddhartha abandons his royal heritage and dedicates his long lise to the service of Humanity. He loses the kingdom of Kapilavastu. But wait and measure his gain. Enthroned on the hearts of countless millions, he rules to-day over a wider, vaster and more enduring empire, adored and worshipped as the Lord and Gautama, the Enlightened, the Buddha Six centuries roll by. We witness the enactment of an awful tragedy in Jerusalem, the city of peace. But the Cross, which wrung from the unwilling lips of the son of Mary the bitter cry of anguish and despair-"My Lord, my Lord, why hast thou forsaken me"—is to-day the Cross of Hope at which thousands of hopeless hands are clinging. Six centuries roll by. Once more we beholů another man at Mecca, 13 years of whose ministry have been one long crucifixion, a humble fugitive from the city of his birth seeking an asylum in distant Yathrib. But to-day the name of the son of Abdullah is second only to that of Allah. The lips of his innumerable followers utter his name with reverence and respect five times a day. The cry of the Muezzin, at dawn and at sunset, wafts it from the pillars of Hercules to the Great Wall of China. Eternal life in the Hereafter is a reward of death in the Here. The Crown of Thorns is the price of the Crown of Immortality.” "I for one am proud to declare that the blood of the Aryans flows in my veins with that of the Semi বিবিধ প্রসঙ্গ । SMMSMMSMMSMMSMSMSMMSMMSMMSMMSMMSMMSMSMSMSMMSSMMMMSMMMMMMSMMSMMSMSMS + Islam. But yours is a mistaken idea of self-sacrifice. . . . > as - **:- tics. A greater and a wider heritage becomes mine when I feel that I owe allegiance not only to Moses, Christ and Muhammad, but also that Zarathustra, Srikrishna and Gautama claim my homage. the Gita as much as the Gospel of Islam, belongs not to this race and that, but to whole humanity." - ধৰ্ম্মের জন্ত মরা অপেক্ষ তজ্জন্ত জীবনের প্রত্যেক মুহূৰ্ত্ত । ব্যয় করা কঠিন, ইহা অতি সত্য কথা। . মুসলমানের - প্রমিক নহে বলিয়া যে অপবাদ --- আছে, তৎসম্বন্ধে বক্তা বলেন— “The Muslim is often reproached for lack of patriot. ism. Yet it was the Prophet of Islam who declared patriotism to be a part of religion It is true our ੋਂ pathies travel beyond the bounds of India, that our pati is the whole world of Islam. But the true pan- - Islamist, who dreams to unite the various sects of Islam, also longs to draw the Hindus. ind Muslims closer to each other; nay yearns for the dawn of a deeper and wider brotherhood of humanity existing - -- o - under the aegis of the Imperialism of a universal - religion." -- - § - - - - তিনি মুসলমানদিগের বাঙ্গল ভাষা ও -- ---, - করার আবশ্বকতা সম্বন্ধে যাহা বলিয়া মুসলমানের অনুধাবনযোগ্য - অনেক বৎসর - | - * শ্রমসাধ্য কাজ হইতে বঞ্চিত হইতেছিল, বা নিজেই নিজেকে বঞ্চিত করিতেছিল। হিন্দুস্থানী ও ওড়িয়া তাহার স্থান অধিকার করিতেছিল। তের বৎসর পরে কলিকাতায় । ফিরিয়া আসিয়া দেখিতেছি, শ্রমের ক্ষেত্র হইতে, ছুতার এতি দিন কাজ হইতে, ধিন, পানের দোকান, সরবর্তের দোকান হইতে আরম্ভ করিয়া বড় বড় কারবার হইতে, বাঙ্গালী পূৰ্ব্বাপেক্ষা অধিক পরিমাণে । তাড়িত । হইয়াছে। যাহার বাঙ্গালীর স্থান অধিকার | নাই । যোগ্যতমের প্রতিষ্ঠা অনিবাৰ্য্য। ৯ আমাদের বিচাৰ্য্য এই যে বাঙ্গালী কেন নি নি ছৰ্ব্বল ও শ্রমকাতর হইয়া পড়িতেছে ? সাধারণ বাঙ্গালী, বাঙ্গালী বাবুর মত কি শারীরিক শ্রমকে ঘৃণা করিতে শিখিতেছে ?
