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There is no doubt that his stoicism was gra-
dually refined by the Qur'anic teaching. Here
is a passage out of a book called Hellenistic Age with
his comment on it :
" According to the Stoic idea, the good man
has simply to play his part nobly in a world
which is never to be very different. That is the
still, sad note of Marcus Aurelius. The phrase
' play his part ' gives indeed the figure to which,
as we have seen, the practical philosophy of the
Hellenistic Age habitually recurs—the figure of
the actor in a play. And that is significant.
The actor unlike the soldier is not helping by his
effort to decide an issue still undetermined, he is
not engaged in any struggle for a cause, he is
just going through well or ill, the fixed part
assigned."
Nizamat Jung's comment on this is, * There
should be cheerful submission to Nature's laws —
. that is, to thejwill of the Creator, and then cease-
less striving for righteousness to make good prevail.
This is Islam as shown in the Qur'an and as
practised by the Prophet—the safest guide for-us
to follow."
Thoughts which had come from Greece were
strengthened into emotions by the Qur'an ; and
this fusing together of thought-material derived
from various sources is characteristic of Nizamat
Jung's intellectual and moral nature. In his
vision of life, religion and practical philosophy go
together, hand in hand, and the veil of beauty is
thrown over them by poetry. --—--p—