Friday, September 25, 2009

Aphorisms From Wasif Ali Wasif

There is a time for a change of season and there is a season for a change of time. Circumstances go on changing, and one’s condition changes with circumstances. When night falls, sleep also emerges form somewhere. He alone succeeds, who keeps the lamp of hope alight in the shadows of adversity. Hope is the no description of any happening. It is only a state of disposition. It is the name of Man’s faith in Nature’s kindness.

Negation is a form of affirmation, a degree of it. To lead men from negation to affirmation is the job of one gifted with insight. In the same way it should be the wish of a man of faith to draw unbelief toward belief.