Spinoza and Plato's Philosophy

Spinoza and Plato's Philosophy is the poem of Zarb e Kaleem in Kulliyat e Iqbal. Its interpretation is as follows!

Spinoza says that the wise man is the one who keeps an eye on life. What is life? To attain the presence of God, then to receive pleasure and happiness from this presence, and to receive the light of guidance to the truth, and to consider one's existence as an entity, that it exists, that is life.

Plato says that the wise man does not look at life but at death. Life is like a spark in a black night that rises in the air and ends at that moment. Life is temporary, death is real, real life is behind this outward life.

He adds that neither life nor death is worthy of attention. Those who are aware of the self and focus only on the self are worthy of attention. If a man acquires self, then both life and death become subject to him.