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It is for this reason that there are sharp and dry thorns m some fruit-hearing r trees Similarly there are sharp thorns in some flowers Dagger like thorns around a flower indicate its internal power which says with dumb language that its beauty, elegance and sweet smell demand that the hand of an oppressor should not reach it. In yesterday's meeting a young man recited some verses. (These verses are of Nizami of Ganja.

(The translation of) the first verse is as follows: How long will you be frozen like ice and be like a rat which is dead in water.) In any case some one has said well "Man falls a prey to disorder (Khalal) owing to abject life and becomes helpless as a result of cruelty and oppression If you wish to have a hunch of flowers in your lap remain armed and ready for defence like a thorn" From the point of view of eloquence these verses are in a way a miracle and express a reality in the form of poetry.

It is a fact that owing to abjectness and humiliation the psychological equilibrium of a person is destroyed It is possible that those who live the life of abjectness and humiliation may very well perceive the realities, but they cannot express them with their hands and tongue. This is what 'Khalal' (disorder) means. No doubt it cannot be explained in a better way. 'Disorder' means that harmony ceases to exist between man's powers of deliberation, understanding and action.

Humiliation creates psychological disorder. If the flower wants to preserve its freshness and beauty and remain fixed to the branch, it is necessary that the thorns should not allow the hand of an oppressor to approach it. Hence this is the natural law of defence which appears in the animals in the shape of horns, paws and teeth, and in the human beings in the shape of the power of anger.

As man has been granted reason which is responsible for utilizing all his natural powers in a correct manner he uses his power of anger to safeguard his right, honour, reputation and national interest.

Hence, if we suppose that some law- giver or prophet comes and says that a nation should be deprived of competence to fight and to defend itself, it will be just like a reformer saying that as sexual power is the cause of bad conduct and occasionally of harm, the men and women should be totally deprived of this power. This example shows that the power of anger should continue to exist in the human beings although it should, no doubt, be put on the right path.