This document contains Said Nursi's response to three indications or questions regarding his teachings and position.
1) In response to questions about why he faces scrutiny despite not meddling in worldly affairs, Said Nursi defers to the authorities and people of Isparta province who have observed him for nine years and can attest he has not interfered politically.
2) In response to claims that his teachings oppose principles of equality, Said Nursi argues that absolute equality goes against human nature, and that virtue and belief cannot be removed without changing human nature.
3) In response to accusations of eluding laws by accepting respect, Said Nursi explains that spiritual duties of guiding
پاکستان کا انگریزوں کا چھوڑا ہوا کفریہ عدالتی نظام بمقابلہ اسلامی عدالتی نظام۔
یہ پریزینٹیشن آپ کی آنکھیں کھول دے گا کہ کس طرح یہ عدالتی نظام انصاف تو دور کروڑوں لوگوں کی زندگیاں برباد کر چکا ہے۔
اسلامی عدالتی نظام کے شرعی دلائل ساتھ موجود ہیں۔
This is the narrative of the By-Laws, Structures and Mandatory Electives of Covenant Creations for High Priest/ess, House Witch. Gratoo Coutisen Initiate.
An alternative approach to sexual violence, media and sex, introducing erotica in sex.
Presented to students of CARIMAC's Gender, Media and Development course organised by Women's Media Watch Jamaica. Guest Lecturer 2012.
پاکستان کا انگریزوں کا چھوڑا ہوا کفریہ عدالتی نظام بمقابلہ اسلامی عدالتی نظام۔
یہ پریزینٹیشن آپ کی آنکھیں کھول دے گا کہ کس طرح یہ عدالتی نظام انصاف تو دور کروڑوں لوگوں کی زندگیاں برباد کر چکا ہے۔
اسلامی عدالتی نظام کے شرعی دلائل ساتھ موجود ہیں۔
This is the narrative of the By-Laws, Structures and Mandatory Electives of Covenant Creations for High Priest/ess, House Witch. Gratoo Coutisen Initiate.
An alternative approach to sexual violence, media and sex, introducing erotica in sex.
Presented to students of CARIMAC's Gender, Media and Development course organised by Women's Media Watch Jamaica. Guest Lecturer 2012.
1APA FORMAT, Reflection 5 – Professional Development. 1. AppEttaBenton28
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APA FORMAT, Reflection 5 – Professional Development
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1. Apply leadership principles and decision making in the provision of quality nursing care and healthcare team coordination.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
a. How did you see leadership principles impact decisions around quality nursing care?
b. How did you see leadership principles impact healthcare team coordination?
2. Demonstrate a basic understanding of organizational structure, mission, vision, philosophy, and values.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
3. Utilize an iterative cycle of clinical judgment, including prioritization and delegation.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
a. How did you feel about using the clinical judgment model in the practicum setting?
i. How did you see it impact prioritization?
ii. How did you see it impact delegation?
4. Demonstrate professionalism and civility.
Use these questions to help you answer the above statement:
a. How did you specifically use professionalism in this clinical immersion?
b. How did you demonstrate civility within this clinical immersion?
i. Please explain 1 experience related to civility.
5 Apply research, scholarly evidence, and technology to inform the delivery of care.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
a. How did you feel about using scholarly evidence to support the decisions for care delivery?
b. How did you apply (or see your preceptor apply) research in your clinical immersion to inform the delivery of care.
c. How did you apply (or see your preceptor apply) technology in your clinical immersion to inform the delivery of care.
6.Apply concepts of quality and safety using outcome measures to identify clinical questions.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
7, Demonstrate team building and collaboration when working with intraprofessional and interprofessional teams.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
8, Uphold ethical standards related to data security, regulatory requirements, confidentiality, and clients’ right to privacy.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
References
Letter to Martin Luther King
April 12, 1963
We clergymen are among those who, in January, issued “an Appeal for Law and Order and Common
Sense,” in dealing with racial problems in Alabama. ...
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. RooseveltWEDNESDAY, JA.docxrtodd280
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937
When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision--to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit of happiness. We of the Republic pledged ourselves to drive from the temple of our ancient faith those who had profaned it; to end by action, tireless and unafraid, the stagnation and despair of that day. We did those first things first.
Our covenant with ourselves did not stop there. Instinctively we recognized a deeper need--the need to find through government the instrument of our united purpose to solve for the individual the ever-rising problems of a complex civilization. Repeated attempts at their solution without the aid of government had left us baffled and bewildered. For, without that aid, we had been unable to create those moral controls over the services of science which are necessary to make science a useful servant instead of a ruthless master of mankind. To do this we knew that we must find practical controls over blind economic forces and blindly selfish men.
We of the Republic sensed the truth that democratic government has innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered inevitable, to solve problems once considered unsolvable. We would not admit that we could not find a way to master economic epidemics just as, after centuries of fatalistic suffering, we had found a way to master epidemics of disease. We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.
In this we Americans were discovering no wholly new truth; we were writing a new chapter in our book of self-government.
This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitutional Convention which made us a nation. At that Convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solution. A century and a half ago they established the Federal Government in order to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to the American people.
Today we invoke those same powers of government to achieve the same objectives.
Four years of new experience have not belied our historic instinct. They hold out the clear hope that government within communities, government within the separate States, and government of the United States can do the things the times require, without yielding its democracy. Our tasks in the last four years did not force democracy to take a holiday.
Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good. The es.
1. Reflect upon and discuss some particular topic or issue of your.docxpaynetawnya
1. Reflect upon and discuss some particular topic or issue of your choice that is directly relevant to the subject of this unit (Islam); AND
2. Discuss your personal reaction to it, and why or how it is relevant to you personally and/or for understanding religion today.
400-600 words. College level writing. No hence” or thus”, please. I have my own Turnitin account which will check your work along with my critique. Thanks for your time.
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Translated by Cathal Woods. 2010, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
With these words I [Socrates] thought myself released from talking,
but it seems it was only a prelude, since Glaukon, who is always most brave
about everything, did not accept Thrasymachos' withdrawal but said,
"Socrates, do you want to seem to have persuaded us, or truly persuade us,
that justice is better than injustice in every respect?"
"I would prefer truly," I said, "if it were in my power."
"Well you aren't doing what you want," he said. "Tell me, do you
think there is the following kind of good, which we are pleased to possess
not because we desire its consequences, but which we welcome for its own
sake, such as pleasant experiences and pleasures that are harmless and give
rise to nothing else subsequently besides the pleasure of having them?"
"I certainly do think there is this kind of good," I said.
"And what about a kind that we love both in its own right and for
what comes from it, such as thinking and seeing and being healthy? We
welcome such things for both reasons, I suppose."
"Yes," I said.
"And do you see some third kind of good," he said, "which includes
exercise and medical treatment when sick and medical practice and other
forms of money-making, since we say these things are laborious and yet
beneficial for us, and we don't want to have them for their own sakes but
for the sake of the wages and various other things that come from them."
"There is indeed this third kind," I said. "But what of it?"
"Into which of these would you put justice?" he said.
"I think," I said, "into the most fine, the one that is loved, by the
person who intends to be blessed, for itself and for what comes from it."
"That's not where most people put it," he said, "but in the laborious
class, which must be practiced for the sake of wages and the standing that
comes from reputation, but which itself should be avoided because
difficult."
"I know it's thought of this way," I said, "and Thrasymachos has been
finding fault with it on such grounds for a long time, and praising injustice.
It seems I am somewhat slow to learn."
"Come then," he said, "listen to me and see if it still seems so to you.
For Thrasymachos appears to me to have been soothed by you, like a snake,
earlier than he should. For me, the presentation ...
Letters To Authorities, Robert Arthur MenardChuck Thompson
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Collection 6.1Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Christian Women of.docxmonicafrancis71118
Collection 6.1
Angelina Grimke, "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" (1836) "Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not within thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place: but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this. And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:-and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and if I perish, I perish." Esther IV. 13-16. Respected Friends, It is because I feel a deep and tender interest in your present and eternal welfare that I am willing thus publicly to address you. Some of you have loved me as a relative, and some have felt bound to me in Christian sympathy, and Gospel fellowship; and even when compelled by a strong sense of duty, to break those outward bonds of union which bound us together as members of the same community, and members of the same religious denomination, you were generous enough to give me credit, for sincerity as a Christian, though you believed I had been most strangely deceived. I thanked you then for your kindness, and I ask you now, for the sake of former confidence, and former friendship, to read the following pages in the spirit of calm investigation and fervent prayer. It is because you have known me, that I write thus unto you. But there are other Christian women scattered over the Southern States, a very large number of whom have never seen me, and never heard my name, and who feel no interest whatever in me. But I feel an interest in you, as branches of the same vine from whose root I daily draw the principle of spiritual vitality-Yes! Sisters in Christ I feel an interest in you, and often has the secret prayer arisen on your behalf, Lord "open thou their eyes that they may see wondrous things out of thy Law"-It is then, because I do feel and do pray for you, that I thus address you upon a subject about which of all others, perhaps you would rather not hear anything; but, "would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly, and indeed bear with me, for I am jealous over you with godly jealousy." Be not afraid then to read my appeal; it is not written in the heat of passion or prejudice, but in that solemn calmness which is the result of conviction and duty. It is true, I am going to tell you unwelcome truths, but I mean to speak those truths in love, and remember Solomon says, "faithful are the wounds of a friend." I do not believe the time has yet come when Christian women "will not endure sound doctrine," even on the subject of Slavery, if it is spoken to them in tenderness and love, therefore I now address you... ...But perhaps you will be ready to query, why appeal to women on this subject? We do not make the laws which perpetuate slavery. No legislative power is vested in us; we c.
Gulen Terrorist Organization Religious ExploitationGulen Cemaat
Gulen Movement is a Terrorist Organization that exploits religion by hiding their true intentions. Their main goal is supreme power and growing more of it. Money and greed is center to the movement, the schools are mere fronts for their operations in over 100 countries. Gulen is more or an organized crime cult than a traditional sect.
Gulenists will self destruct from their greed, and ruthlessness. The lying may buy them favors in the USA, purchase political alliances are not stable. Most politicians have removed themselves from them after the July 15th coup.
http://www.gulenpoliticians.blogspot.com
http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/sss.en.mfa
The Blueprint for Black Sovereignty by Bro. Reggieafricaonline1
The City is the Governmental Idea that controls Black Citizenship or not. The Road not taken is to completely by the power of Black Organization to completely control Cities. It is in the City where our Inalienable Rights and Pursuit of Happiness lays. It is the City that controls every aspect of Black Life.
Daesh has not any relation with Islam and only one group which is Superpower's puppet and its purpose is Denigrating only Islam but be certain that could not never achieve to its dirty purpose.Damn on Daesh
p LYDIA MARIA CHILD From Women and Suffrage 1867 .docxkarlhennesey
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LYDIA MARIA CHILD
From Women and Suffrage
1867
L dia Maria Child (1802-1880) preferred, as she explained in 1841, "to take my freedom
;thout disputing about my claim to it." Impatient with the debates on women's rights,
she characterized both sides as "shallow philosophy." Instead of talking, women should
"simply go forward and do," she told the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison in 1839.
Child was fearful of losing all connection to the past, telling a friend in 1843: "Let not
the din of the noisy present drown the music of the past." Her work was not the "noisy
present" of politics, but an "eternal anthem," and she argued that her art was activism
enough: "My own appropriate mission is obviously that of a writer; and I am convinced
that I can do more good . .. by infusing . .. principles . .. into all I write." But as the nation
lurched toward war, Child saw that her genteel, sentimental style might effect change:
"Slavery was abolished in England by rousing the moral feelings of the people." By 1856,
she was exclaiming: "What a shame that women can't vote!" She joined abolitionists in
the struggle for black suffrage, and in "Women and Suffrage," the endpoint of her long
journey toward public activism, she calls for female suffrage too.
Child had spent years looking out from "the 'loopholes of retreat,"' as she once put it
(an image also used in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents [1861 ], edited by Child). But in 1861
Child looked back on her years in retreat from public life, writing to Lucretia Mott: "There
was a time when I grew tired of incessant strife ... I make the best atonement that can be
made, by working now with redoubled diligence." Amused at her own transformation,
she wrote to others: "If I ... go on at this rate, I shall be the rabidest radical that ever
pelted a throne."
Further reading: Deborah Clifford, Crusader for Freedom (1992); Jean Fagan Yellin,
Women and Sisters (1989).
Professor Lewis says, very truly, that the questions of black men's voting and of
white women's voting are not analogous. And I confess to a reluctance to urge
the question of female suffrage upon Congress at this time, when they have so
many other difficult problems to solve. That the loyal blacks of the South
should vote is a present and very imperious necessity-not only for their own
protection, but also for the safety of the small minority of whites who are true
to the Government. This is another of those remarkable leadings of Divine
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1. Part One Renaissance IdeasAs Islam spread across large reg.docxjackiewalcutt
1. Part One: Renaissance Ideas
As Islam spread across large regions, Muslim scholars began to adopt ideas from Ancient philosophers. In the following passages, we read some thoughts about the role of Aristotle in Muslim and Renaissance Italian political thought. The first passage was written by Muslim scholar Mohammed Al-Farabi.
Now when one receives instruction.., if he perceives their ideas themselves with his intellect, and his assent to them is by means of certain demonstration, then the science that comprises these cognitions is philosophy. Therefore, according to the ancients [Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates], religion is an imitation of philosophy. Both comprise the same subjects and both give an account of the ultimate principles of the beings. For both supply knowledge about the first principle and cause of the beings, and both give an account of the ultimate end for the sake of which man is made - that is, supreme happiness - and the ultimate end of every one of the other beings. In everything of which philosophy gives an account based on intellectual perception or conception, religion gives an account based on imagination. In everything demonstrated by philosophy, religion employs persuasion. It follows, then, that the idea of Imam, Philosopher and Legislator is a single entity. ~ Al-Farabi (ca. 870-950)
Islam. (n.d.). Islam.
Retrieved from http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/arab-y67s11.asp
The following passage comes from medieval thinker Roger Bacon:
The next consideration from effects is taken by comparing our state with that of the ancient Philosophers; who, though they were without that quickening grace which makes man worthy of eternal life, and where into we enter at baptism, yet lived beyond all comparison better than we, both in all decency and in contempt of the world, with all its delights and riches and honors; as all men may read in the works of Aristotle Seneca, Tully [Cicero], Plato, Socrates, and others; and so it was that they attained to the secrets of wisdom and found out all knowledge. But we Christians have discovered nothing worthy of those philosophers, nor can we even understand their wisdom; which ignorance of ours springs from this cause, that our morals are worse than theirs. For it is impossible that wisdom should coexist with sin. But certain it is that, if there were so much wisdom in the world as men think, these evils would not be committed. And therefore, when we see everywhere (and especially among the clergy) such corruption of life, then their studies must needs be corrupt. Many wise men considering this, and pondering on God's wisdom and the learning of the saints and the truth of histories have reckoned that the times of Antichrist are at hand in these days of ours. ~ Roger Bacon ca. 1271
Paul Halsall (1996) Medieval Sourcebook: Roger Bacon: Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning
Retrieved from http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/bacon1.asp
Question: Based on these words, what ca ...
Module 5 Primary Source Log 5 U.S. Grant, Second In.docxgilpinleeanna
Module 5 Primary Source Log 5
U.S. Grant, Second Inaugural Address, 1873
Fellow-Citizens:
UNDER Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great
nation. It has been my endeavor in the past to maintain all the laws, and, so far as lay in my
power, to act for the best interests of the whole people. My best efforts will be given in the
same direction in the future, aided, I trust, by my four years' experience in the office.
1
When my first term of the office of Chief Executive began, the country had not recovered
from the effects of a great internal revolution, and three of the former States of the Union had
not been restored to their Federal relations.
2
It seemed to me wise that no new questions should be raised so long as that condition of
affairs existed. Therefore the past four years, so far as I could control events, have been
consumed in the effort to restore harmony, public credit, commerce, and all the arts of peace
and progress. It is my firm conviction that the civilized world is tending toward
republicanism, or government by the people through their chosen representatives, and that our
own great Republic is destined to be the guiding star to all others.
3
Under our Republic we support an army less than that of any European power of any
standing and a navy less than that of either of at least five of them. There could be no
extension of territory on the continent which would call for an increase of this force, but rather
might such extension enable us to diminish it.
4
The theory of government changes with general progress. Now that the telegraph is made
available for communicating thought, together with rapid transit by steam, all parts of a
continent are made contiguous for all purposes of government, and communication between
the extreme limits of the country made easier than it was throughout the old thirteen States at
the beginning of our national existence.
5
The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he
is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and
should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed, so far as Executive influence can
avail.
6
Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to
advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what
there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured
that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.
7
The States lately at war with the General Government are now happily rehabilitated, and no
Executive control is exercised in any one of them that would not be exercised in any other
State under like circumstances.
8
9
Module 5 Primary Source Log Page 1 of 3
In the first year of the past Administration t ...
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Atalarımız “ibret olma ibret al” demişler. Ne doğru söz. Hiç ibret alınsa ibretlik olunacak hallere düşülür mü? Ama yine de insan olmanın manasına bakıldığında insan unutkan ve cahildir. Kendi ibretlik hayatından da ibret almaz.
1APA FORMAT, Reflection 5 – Professional Development. 1. AppEttaBenton28
1
APA FORMAT, Reflection 5 – Professional Development
.
1. Apply leadership principles and decision making in the provision of quality nursing care and healthcare team coordination.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
a. How did you see leadership principles impact decisions around quality nursing care?
b. How did you see leadership principles impact healthcare team coordination?
2. Demonstrate a basic understanding of organizational structure, mission, vision, philosophy, and values.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
3. Utilize an iterative cycle of clinical judgment, including prioritization and delegation.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
a. How did you feel about using the clinical judgment model in the practicum setting?
i. How did you see it impact prioritization?
ii. How did you see it impact delegation?
4. Demonstrate professionalism and civility.
Use these questions to help you answer the above statement:
a. How did you specifically use professionalism in this clinical immersion?
b. How did you demonstrate civility within this clinical immersion?
i. Please explain 1 experience related to civility.
5 Apply research, scholarly evidence, and technology to inform the delivery of care.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
a. How did you feel about using scholarly evidence to support the decisions for care delivery?
b. How did you apply (or see your preceptor apply) research in your clinical immersion to inform the delivery of care.
c. How did you apply (or see your preceptor apply) technology in your clinical immersion to inform the delivery of care.
6.Apply concepts of quality and safety using outcome measures to identify clinical questions.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
7, Demonstrate team building and collaboration when working with intraprofessional and interprofessional teams.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
8, Uphold ethical standards related to data security, regulatory requirements, confidentiality, and clients’ right to privacy.
Tell me at least 1 example from your practicum that meets the above activity statement.
How did you see your leader meet the above statement:
References
Letter to Martin Luther King
April 12, 1963
We clergymen are among those who, in January, issued “an Appeal for Law and Order and Common
Sense,” in dealing with racial problems in Alabama. ...
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. RooseveltWEDNESDAY, JA.docxrtodd280
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937
When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision--to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit of happiness. We of the Republic pledged ourselves to drive from the temple of our ancient faith those who had profaned it; to end by action, tireless and unafraid, the stagnation and despair of that day. We did those first things first.
Our covenant with ourselves did not stop there. Instinctively we recognized a deeper need--the need to find through government the instrument of our united purpose to solve for the individual the ever-rising problems of a complex civilization. Repeated attempts at their solution without the aid of government had left us baffled and bewildered. For, without that aid, we had been unable to create those moral controls over the services of science which are necessary to make science a useful servant instead of a ruthless master of mankind. To do this we knew that we must find practical controls over blind economic forces and blindly selfish men.
We of the Republic sensed the truth that democratic government has innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered inevitable, to solve problems once considered unsolvable. We would not admit that we could not find a way to master economic epidemics just as, after centuries of fatalistic suffering, we had found a way to master epidemics of disease. We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.
In this we Americans were discovering no wholly new truth; we were writing a new chapter in our book of self-government.
This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitutional Convention which made us a nation. At that Convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solution. A century and a half ago they established the Federal Government in order to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to the American people.
Today we invoke those same powers of government to achieve the same objectives.
Four years of new experience have not belied our historic instinct. They hold out the clear hope that government within communities, government within the separate States, and government of the United States can do the things the times require, without yielding its democracy. Our tasks in the last four years did not force democracy to take a holiday.
Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good. The es.
1. Reflect upon and discuss some particular topic or issue of your.docxpaynetawnya
1. Reflect upon and discuss some particular topic or issue of your choice that is directly relevant to the subject of this unit (Islam); AND
2. Discuss your personal reaction to it, and why or how it is relevant to you personally and/or for understanding religion today.
400-600 words. College level writing. No hence” or thus”, please. I have my own Turnitin account which will check your work along with my critique. Thanks for your time.
Glaukon's Challenge — Republic 2 1
357a
357a
b
c
d
358a
b
c
Glaukon's Challenge (REPUBLIC 2) — PLATO
Translated by Cathal Woods. 2010, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
With these words I [Socrates] thought myself released from talking,
but it seems it was only a prelude, since Glaukon, who is always most brave
about everything, did not accept Thrasymachos' withdrawal but said,
"Socrates, do you want to seem to have persuaded us, or truly persuade us,
that justice is better than injustice in every respect?"
"I would prefer truly," I said, "if it were in my power."
"Well you aren't doing what you want," he said. "Tell me, do you
think there is the following kind of good, which we are pleased to possess
not because we desire its consequences, but which we welcome for its own
sake, such as pleasant experiences and pleasures that are harmless and give
rise to nothing else subsequently besides the pleasure of having them?"
"I certainly do think there is this kind of good," I said.
"And what about a kind that we love both in its own right and for
what comes from it, such as thinking and seeing and being healthy? We
welcome such things for both reasons, I suppose."
"Yes," I said.
"And do you see some third kind of good," he said, "which includes
exercise and medical treatment when sick and medical practice and other
forms of money-making, since we say these things are laborious and yet
beneficial for us, and we don't want to have them for their own sakes but
for the sake of the wages and various other things that come from them."
"There is indeed this third kind," I said. "But what of it?"
"Into which of these would you put justice?" he said.
"I think," I said, "into the most fine, the one that is loved, by the
person who intends to be blessed, for itself and for what comes from it."
"That's not where most people put it," he said, "but in the laborious
class, which must be practiced for the sake of wages and the standing that
comes from reputation, but which itself should be avoided because
difficult."
"I know it's thought of this way," I said, "and Thrasymachos has been
finding fault with it on such grounds for a long time, and praising injustice.
It seems I am somewhat slow to learn."
"Come then," he said, "listen to me and see if it still seems so to you.
For Thrasymachos appears to me to have been soothed by you, like a snake,
earlier than he should. For me, the presentation ...
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Collection 6.1Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Christian Women of.docxmonicafrancis71118
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Angelina Grimke, "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" (1836) "Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not within thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place: but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this. And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:-and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and if I perish, I perish." Esther IV. 13-16. Respected Friends, It is because I feel a deep and tender interest in your present and eternal welfare that I am willing thus publicly to address you. Some of you have loved me as a relative, and some have felt bound to me in Christian sympathy, and Gospel fellowship; and even when compelled by a strong sense of duty, to break those outward bonds of union which bound us together as members of the same community, and members of the same religious denomination, you were generous enough to give me credit, for sincerity as a Christian, though you believed I had been most strangely deceived. I thanked you then for your kindness, and I ask you now, for the sake of former confidence, and former friendship, to read the following pages in the spirit of calm investigation and fervent prayer. It is because you have known me, that I write thus unto you. But there are other Christian women scattered over the Southern States, a very large number of whom have never seen me, and never heard my name, and who feel no interest whatever in me. But I feel an interest in you, as branches of the same vine from whose root I daily draw the principle of spiritual vitality-Yes! Sisters in Christ I feel an interest in you, and often has the secret prayer arisen on your behalf, Lord "open thou their eyes that they may see wondrous things out of thy Law"-It is then, because I do feel and do pray for you, that I thus address you upon a subject about which of all others, perhaps you would rather not hear anything; but, "would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly, and indeed bear with me, for I am jealous over you with godly jealousy." Be not afraid then to read my appeal; it is not written in the heat of passion or prejudice, but in that solemn calmness which is the result of conviction and duty. It is true, I am going to tell you unwelcome truths, but I mean to speak those truths in love, and remember Solomon says, "faithful are the wounds of a friend." I do not believe the time has yet come when Christian women "will not endure sound doctrine," even on the subject of Slavery, if it is spoken to them in tenderness and love, therefore I now address you... ...But perhaps you will be ready to query, why appeal to women on this subject? We do not make the laws which perpetuate slavery. No legislative power is vested in us; we c.
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LYDIA MARIA CHILD
From Women and Suffrage
1867
L dia Maria Child (1802-1880) preferred, as she explained in 1841, "to take my freedom
;thout disputing about my claim to it." Impatient with the debates on women's rights,
she characterized both sides as "shallow philosophy." Instead of talking, women should
"simply go forward and do," she told the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison in 1839.
Child was fearful of losing all connection to the past, telling a friend in 1843: "Let not
the din of the noisy present drown the music of the past." Her work was not the "noisy
present" of politics, but an "eternal anthem," and she argued that her art was activism
enough: "My own appropriate mission is obviously that of a writer; and I am convinced
that I can do more good . .. by infusing . .. principles . .. into all I write." But as the nation
lurched toward war, Child saw that her genteel, sentimental style might effect change:
"Slavery was abolished in England by rousing the moral feelings of the people." By 1856,
she was exclaiming: "What a shame that women can't vote!" She joined abolitionists in
the struggle for black suffrage, and in "Women and Suffrage," the endpoint of her long
journey toward public activism, she calls for female suffrage too.
Child had spent years looking out from "the 'loopholes of retreat,"' as she once put it
(an image also used in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents [1861 ], edited by Child). But in 1861
Child looked back on her years in retreat from public life, writing to Lucretia Mott: "There
was a time when I grew tired of incessant strife ... I make the best atonement that can be
made, by working now with redoubled diligence." Amused at her own transformation,
she wrote to others: "If I ... go on at this rate, I shall be the rabidest radical that ever
pelted a throne."
Further reading: Deborah Clifford, Crusader for Freedom (1992); Jean Fagan Yellin,
Women and Sisters (1989).
Professor Lewis says, very truly, that the questions of black men's voting and of
white women's voting are not analogous. And I confess to a reluctance to urge
the question of female suffrage upon Congress at this time, when they have so
many other difficult problems to solve. That the loyal blacks of the South
should vote is a present and very imperious necessity-not only for their own
protection, but also for the safety of the small minority of whites who are true
to the Government. This is another of those remarkable leadings of Divine
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1. Part One: Renaissance Ideas
As Islam spread across large regions, Muslim scholars began to adopt ideas from Ancient philosophers. In the following passages, we read some thoughts about the role of Aristotle in Muslim and Renaissance Italian political thought. The first passage was written by Muslim scholar Mohammed Al-Farabi.
Now when one receives instruction.., if he perceives their ideas themselves with his intellect, and his assent to them is by means of certain demonstration, then the science that comprises these cognitions is philosophy. Therefore, according to the ancients [Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates], religion is an imitation of philosophy. Both comprise the same subjects and both give an account of the ultimate principles of the beings. For both supply knowledge about the first principle and cause of the beings, and both give an account of the ultimate end for the sake of which man is made - that is, supreme happiness - and the ultimate end of every one of the other beings. In everything of which philosophy gives an account based on intellectual perception or conception, religion gives an account based on imagination. In everything demonstrated by philosophy, religion employs persuasion. It follows, then, that the idea of Imam, Philosopher and Legislator is a single entity. ~ Al-Farabi (ca. 870-950)
Islam. (n.d.). Islam.
Retrieved from http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/arab-y67s11.asp
The following passage comes from medieval thinker Roger Bacon:
The next consideration from effects is taken by comparing our state with that of the ancient Philosophers; who, though they were without that quickening grace which makes man worthy of eternal life, and where into we enter at baptism, yet lived beyond all comparison better than we, both in all decency and in contempt of the world, with all its delights and riches and honors; as all men may read in the works of Aristotle Seneca, Tully [Cicero], Plato, Socrates, and others; and so it was that they attained to the secrets of wisdom and found out all knowledge. But we Christians have discovered nothing worthy of those philosophers, nor can we even understand their wisdom; which ignorance of ours springs from this cause, that our morals are worse than theirs. For it is impossible that wisdom should coexist with sin. But certain it is that, if there were so much wisdom in the world as men think, these evils would not be committed. And therefore, when we see everywhere (and especially among the clergy) such corruption of life, then their studies must needs be corrupt. Many wise men considering this, and pondering on God's wisdom and the learning of the saints and the truth of histories have reckoned that the times of Antichrist are at hand in these days of ours. ~ Roger Bacon ca. 1271
Paul Halsall (1996) Medieval Sourcebook: Roger Bacon: Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning
Retrieved from http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/bacon1.asp
Question: Based on these words, what ca ...
Module 5 Primary Source Log 5 U.S. Grant, Second In.docxgilpinleeanna
Module 5 Primary Source Log 5
U.S. Grant, Second Inaugural Address, 1873
Fellow-Citizens:
UNDER Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great
nation. It has been my endeavor in the past to maintain all the laws, and, so far as lay in my
power, to act for the best interests of the whole people. My best efforts will be given in the
same direction in the future, aided, I trust, by my four years' experience in the office.
1
When my first term of the office of Chief Executive began, the country had not recovered
from the effects of a great internal revolution, and three of the former States of the Union had
not been restored to their Federal relations.
2
It seemed to me wise that no new questions should be raised so long as that condition of
affairs existed. Therefore the past four years, so far as I could control events, have been
consumed in the effort to restore harmony, public credit, commerce, and all the arts of peace
and progress. It is my firm conviction that the civilized world is tending toward
republicanism, or government by the people through their chosen representatives, and that our
own great Republic is destined to be the guiding star to all others.
3
Under our Republic we support an army less than that of any European power of any
standing and a navy less than that of either of at least five of them. There could be no
extension of territory on the continent which would call for an increase of this force, but rather
might such extension enable us to diminish it.
4
The theory of government changes with general progress. Now that the telegraph is made
available for communicating thought, together with rapid transit by steam, all parts of a
continent are made contiguous for all purposes of government, and communication between
the extreme limits of the country made easier than it was throughout the old thirteen States at
the beginning of our national existence.
5
The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he
is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and
should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed, so far as Executive influence can
avail.
6
Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to
advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what
there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured
that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.
7
The States lately at war with the General Government are now happily rehabilitated, and no
Executive control is exercised in any one of them that would not be exercised in any other
State under like circumstances.
8
9
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Atalarımız “ibret olma ibret al” demişler. Ne doğru söz.Ahmet Türkan
Atalarımız “ibret olma ibret al” demişler. Ne doğru söz. Hiç ibret alınsa ibretlik olunacak hallere düşülür mü? Ama yine de insan olmanın manasına bakıldığında insan unutkan ve cahildir. Kendi ibretlik hayatından da ibret almaz.
Madem imtihan dünyası olan şu aleme bize ihsan edilen akıl, şuur, idrak, zekâ ve hafıza kuvveleri sayesinde gönderildik. Madem bize bir emanet verildi. O emaneti hafızamızı diri tutarak muhafaza etmenin yollarını da öğrenmeliyiz. Yani aklımız gibi hafızamızı da muhafaza etmeliyiz.
Yaklaşık 50 (670) yılında doğdu.
Berberî asıllı
Nefzâve veya Zenâte kabilesine mensuptur; Mağrib fetihleri sırasında esir alındığı belirtilir.
Hemedan (İran) kökenli olup Kuzey Afrika’ya göç etmiş bir kabileden geldiği veya Arap asıllı olduğuna dair görüşler de vardır.
Leys veya Sadîf kabilesine nisbet edilmesi onun bu kabilelerin Âzatlısı diye kabul edilmesindendir.
Türk kültüründe ve dünya kültüründe çok uzun yıllar boyunca hikâye anlatımı ve yazımı yaygındır. Bizim köklü edebiyatımızın görklü hikayeleri Dede korkut hikâyeleri ile özdeşleşmiştir. Sadi’nin Bostan ve Gülistan’ı, Mevlana’nın Mesnevisi gibi daha pek çok yazarımızın hikayeleri bu alanda en güzel örneklerdir.
Bazı sözler insana yâredir.
Bazı sözler insana çaredir.
İnsan duyduğundan etkilenir. İnsan kulaktan ya zehirlenir ya da şifa bulur. Şifalı sözlerden derlediğim ilaçları sizlerle paylaşmak istedim değerli kitap dostlarım.
Garip bir çağda yaşıyoruz. Çekirdek aile kavramını içi boşaltılmış, çitlenmiş çekirdeğe döndürmüşüz. Anneler babalar huzur evlerinde, evde kedi köpek besler olmuşuz. Kaybedince anlamışız anne ne demek, baba ne demek. Aslında var iken sarılmak lazım değil miydi? Var iken ellerini öpmek, yaralarını sarmak lazım değil miydi?
Asıl varken gölge eksiktir. Hak yolunun yolcuları ise O Nebi’nin varisleridir. Bizlere rehberlik yolunda Allah Resulünün ahlakını aktarırlar, aktarmak isterler. Yani sözleri ile fillerindeki tutarlılık kişiyi ahlak sahibi yapar. Erdemli kılar. İnsanı insan yapan, diğer canlılardan ayıran özelliği öğrenme kabiliyeti, bu değerler ile birleştirip insan onuruna yakışan şekilde hareket etmesidir.
Günümüz dünyasında haramlarla helallerin karıştığı, etik ile ahlakın sınırlarının iç içe olduğu günümüzde iş ahlakının nerede başladığı nerede son bulduğu muammadır. Lakin mensubu olmakla şeref duyduğumuz İslam Dini her konuda olduğu gibi bu konuda da bizlere almamız gereken tavır konusunda son derece tatminkâr cevaplar vermiştir.
İlk yazımdan itibaren tarih sırasına göre sıralanmış olup her 50 yazı ayrı bir ciltte değerlendirilecektir. Böylece geri dönüp bakmak ta kolay olacaktır. Şimdi elinizdeki bu kitap 3. Cilt olarak hazırlanmıştır.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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The Twenty Second Flash
1. The Twenty-Second Flash
In His Name, be He glorified!
This highly confidential short treatise, which I wrote twenty-two years ago specifically for my
closest and most select and sincere brothers while in the village of Barla in the Province of
Isparta, I am dedicating to Isparta’s just Governor, judiciary, and police. This is because of the
concern shown by both the people and the administration of Isparta. If appropriate, several
copies should be written by typewriter in either the old or new letters so that those who have
been holding me under surveillance and searching out my secrets these twenty-five years may
know that I have no hidden secrets whatsoever. They should know that my most hidden secret
is this treatise!
SaidNursi
Three Indications
[While being the Third Matter of the Seventeenth Note of the Seventeenth Flash, this was
incorporated in the Flashes as the Twenty-Second Flash of the Thirty-First Letter because of
the harshness and comprehensiveness of the questions and strength and brilliance of the
answers. The Flashes had to give a place to this Flash. It is confidential and particular to my
most select, sincere, and loyal brothers.]
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
And if anyone puts his trust in God, sufficient is [God] for him. For God will surely
accomplish His purpose. Verily for all things has God appointed a due proportion.
This matter consists of Three Indications.
• FIRST INDICATION
An important question about my person and the Risale-i Nur: many people ask, Although you
have not meddled in “the worldly’s’ world, why do they meddle in your Hereafter at every
opportunity? Whereas no government’s laws interfere with recluses and those who have
abandoned the world?’
T h e A n s w e r : The New Said’s reply to this question is silence. The New Said says: “Let
Divine Determining give the answer for me.” Nevertheless, being compelled to, the Old
Said’s head, which the New Said has borrowed on trust, says: those who should give the
answer to this question are the authorities of Isparta Province, and its people. For the
authorities and the people are much more concerned with the meaning underlying this
question than I am. Since the administration, which consists of thousands of people, and the
people, who number hundreds of thousands, are obliged to consider it and defend it in my
place, why should I speak with the prosecutors unnecessarily, and defend myself?
I have been in this province for nine years, and I am gradually turning my back more and
more on their world. No aspect of my life has remained hidden. Even my most secret and
confidential treatises have come into the hands of the government and some of the deputies. If
2. I had meddled at all in worldly matters, which would have caused the worldly’ alarm and
anxiety, or if I had made any attempt to meddle, or if I had had any idea of doing so, this
province and the local government in the towns would have known. But although I have been
under their scrutiny and surveillance for nine years, and I too have not hesitated to divulge my
secrets to those who have visited me, the authorities have remained silent and have not
bothered me. If I had had any fault that could have been harmful to this country’s happiness
and future, and to its people, over this nine years everyone from the Governor to the village
police chief have made themselves responsible. They are obliged to defend me in the face of
those who make molehills into mountains concerning me, and make the mountains into
molehills. In which case, I refer the answer of this question to them.
The reason the people of this province are mostly obliged to defend me more than myself is
that by means of hundreds of treatises which have demonstrated their effectiveness materially
and in fact, I have worked these nine years for these people’s eternal life and strength of belief
and happiness of life, who are both brothers, and friends, and blessed; and no upset or harm at
all has been suffered by anyone on account of the treatises; and not the slightest sign of
anything political or worldly has been encountered; and, praise be to God, by means of the
Risale-i Nur, this province of Isparta has gained in respect of strength of belief and firmness
in religion a degree of blessedness resembling the blessedness of Damascus in former times
and of al-Azhar in Egypt; and the Risale-i Nur has made the power of belief prevail over
indifference and the desire to worship prevail over vice in the province, and has made it more
religious than any other province. Since this is the case, all its people, even supposing they are
irreligious, are obliged to defend me and the Risale-i Nur. While they have such important
rights of defence, my unimportant, insignificant right does not drive me to defend myself at a
time I, this powerless one, have completed my duty and, thanks be to God, thousands of
students have worked and are working in my place. Someone with so many thousands of
advocates does not defend his own case.
• SECOND INDICATION
The answer to a critical question.
“The worldly’ ask: “Why are you angry with us? You have not made application to us even
once, and are silent. You complain about us bitterly, saying that we are unjust towards you.
But we have our principles, we have our particular rules, as demanded by this age, and you do
not accept that they are applied to you. One who applies the law is not a tyrant, and one who
does not accept the law is rebellious. For instance, in this age of freedom and new republican
era which we have inaugurated, the principle—on the basis of equality—of abolishing
oppression and subjugation of others is as though our fundamental law. However, it is
understood from your open behaviour and your adventurous life in the former period that
whether by assuming the position of hoja or of being an ascetic, you try to draw the public
gaze on yourself and attract attention, so to secure a power and social position outside the
government’s influence. This may appear desirable within—according to current terminology
—the despotic tyranny of the bourgeouisie. But since the principles of pure socialism and
bolshevism, which have emerged with the awakening and ascendancy of our common people,
are more conformable with our interests, we have accepted them, and your position is
disagreeable to us; it opposes our principles. For this reason you do not have the right to
complain about and be angry at the distress we cause you.”
3. T h e A n s w e r : If one who opens up a new way in the life of human society does not act in
conformity with the natural laws in force in the universe, he cannot be successful in beneficial
works and in progress. All his acts become on account of evil and destruction. Since actions
have to be in conformity with the natural laws, absolute equality can only be applied by
changing human nature and removing the fundamental wisdom in the mankind’s creation.
Yes, by birth and the way I have lived I am from the class of common people, and I am one of
those who by temperament and intellectually have accepted the way of “equality of rights.’
And due to compassion and the justice proceeding from Islam, I am one of those who for a
long time have opposed and worked against the despotism and oppression of the elite class
called the bourgeouisie. I therefore support total justice with all my strength, and oppose
tyranny, oppression, arbitrary power, and despotism.
However, human nature and the underlying wisdom in human kind are contrary to the law of
absolute equality. Because, in order to demonstrate His perfect power and wisdom, the All-
Wise Creator produces many crops from a single thing, causes many books to be written on a
single page, and causes many functions to be performed by a single thing; and in the same
way, He causes the duties of thousands of species to be carried out by human kind. It is
because of this great mystery that Almighty God created mankind with a nature that would
produce the shoots of thousands of species and display the levels of the thousands of other
species of living creatures. No limit was placed on man’s powers, subtle faculties, and senses
like the other animals; since He left him free and gave him a capacity whereby they could
roam through endless degrees, while being one species, mankind became like thousands of
species. And for this reason, man was God’s vicegerent on earth, the result of the universe,
and monarch of the animals.
Thus, the most important leaven and mechanism for the variety in mankind is competition and
the true virtue arising from belief. Virtue can only be removed through changing human
nature, extinguishing the reason, killing the heart, and annihilating the spirit. Yes, this age
with its awesome tyranny under the veil of freedom deserves to be struck in the face with the
following masterly lines, which, written by a most important person, have been wrongly
brandished in his face, although he deserved no slap:
It is not possible through tyranny and injustice to destroy freedom;
Try to remove consciousness, if you can, from human kind.
In place of these lines, I say, in order to strike this age in the face:
It is not possible through tyranny and injustice to destroy reality;
Try to annihilate the heart, if you can, in human kind.
Or,
It is not possible through tyranny and injustice to destroy virtue;
Try to annihilate the conscience, if you can, in human kind.
Yes, just as the virtue arising from belief cannot be the means of oppression, so too it cannot
be the cause of despotism. Oppression and arbitrary despotism indicate the absence of virtue.
4. And the most important way of the people of virtue in particular is to interfere in the life of
society only through impotence, poverty, and humility. All praise be to God, my life has
passed on this way, and is passing on it. I am not claiming this out of pride, saying that I
possess some virtue. I say the following with the intention of offering thanks and making
known a Divine bounty:
Through His grace and munificence, Almighty God bestowed on me the virtue of working for
the sciences of belief and the Qur’an. All praise be to God, throughout my life I have spent
this Divine bounty for the benefit and happiness of this Muslim nation, and just as at no time I
have made it the means of dominating and oppressing others, so too for an important reason I
detest public attention and being feted by the people, which is sought after by the neglectful; I
flee from it. Since twenty years of my former life were lost because of that, I consider it to be
harmful for me. But since I know public attention to be a sign of the people liking the Risale-i
Nur, I do not put them off.
And so, O you whose view is restricted to the life of this world! I have not meddled in any
way in your world, nor have I had anything to do with your principles, nor as is testified to by
my life during these nine years of captivity, have I had any intention or desire to meddle in the
world again. So according to what law have you inflicted all this surveillance and oppression
on me as though I was an old oppressor who was ever ready to seize an opportunity and
supported the idea of tyranny and despotism? No government in the world permits such
treatment over and above the law, which is recommended by no one. It is not only me who is
sick of the ill-treatment I have had meted out to me so far, if they knew of it, all mankind
would be disgusted, and even the universe!
• THIRD INDICATION
A fallacious, crazy question.
Some members of the judiciary say: “Since you reside in this country, you should abide by its
republican laws. So why do you elude those laws under the cloak of being a recluse? For
instance, according to the present laws of the government, it is opposed to one of the
principles of the Republic, which is based on equality, to assume some virtue, some merit,
outside one’s duty, and through it to dominate some of the nation and exercise power and
influence. Why do you have your hand kissed, though you hold no position? Why do you
assume a position advertising yourself and saying: Let the people listen to me?”
T h e A n s w e r : Those who apply the law, may apply it to others after first applying it to
themselves. By applying a principle to others which you had not applied to yourselves, you
are infringing and opposing your own principle and law before anyone. Because you want to
apply this law of absolute equality to me. So I say this:
Whenever a common soldier rises to the social rank of a field marshal and shares in the
respect and acclaim the nation shows to the field marshal and is the object of acclaim and
respect the same as him; or whenever the field marshal becomes as common as the soldier and
assumes the soldier’s lowly position and he retains no value whatsoever outside his duty; and
whenever the most brilliant military commander who leads the army to victories receives
public acclaim, respect and affection equal to that of the dimmest common soldier; then as
required by this law of equality of yours, you can tell me: “Don’t call yourself a hoja! Don’t
accept respect! Deny your virtue! Serve the servants, and take beggars as your friends!”
5. I f y o u s a y : “Respect, social position, and public attention are in regard to functions and
particular to those who perform them when they are performing them. But you have no
function, so you may not accept the people’s respect as though you did have one.”
T h e A n s w e r : If man consisted only of a body, and he was going to live in this world for
ever, and if the door of the grave was closed and death had been killed, then his duties and
functions would have been limited to the army and government officials, and what you say
would have had some meaning. But since man does not consist only of a body, and his heart,
tongue, mind, and brain cannot be plucked out to feed his body; they cannot be annihilated;
they too required to be administered.
And since the door of the grave does not close, and since anxiety for the future beyond the
grave is the most important question facing everyone, then the duties based on the respect and
obedience of the nation are not restriced to the social, political, and military duties looking to
its worldly life. Yes, just as it is a duty to give a passport to those travelling abroad, so is it
also a duty to give a passport to those travelling to post-eternity and to give them a light for
that dark way, and it is such a duty that no other duty bears its importance. That duty can be
denied only through denying death and giving the lie to the testimony of the thirty thousand
witnesses who every day set their signatures with the seals of their corpses on the claim
“Death is a reality,” affirming it.
Since there are moral and spiritual duties based on moral and spiritual needs, and the most
important of those duties are the passport for the journey to post-eternity, and the pocket-torch
of the heart in the darkness of the Intermediate Realm, and belief, the key to eternal
happiness, and instruction in belief and its strengthening, for sure, the learned who perform
those duties will not with ingratitude count as nothing the Divine bounties bestowed on them
and the virtues arising from belief, and descend to the level of sinners and the dissolute. They
will not soil themselves with the innovations and vices of the base. Thus, the solitude which
you do not like and suppose to be inequality is because of this.
In addition to this truth I say the following, not to those like you who torment and pester me
and who in egotism and breaking the law of equality are as overweening as the Pharaoh—
because the arrogant suppose humility to be abasement, so one should not be humble before
them—I say rather to the fair-minded, the modest, and the just:
All praise be to God, I know my own faults and impotence. I do not arrogantly want any
position superior to Muslims which demands respect. I rather continuously see my endless
faults and utter insignificance. Finding consolation through seeking Divine forgiveness, I
want not respect from the people, but their prayers. I reckon all my friends know of this way
of mine. There is only this, that while serving the All-Wise Qur’an and teaching the truths of
belief, in order to preserve the dignity and pride of learning that such a rank requires, on
account of those truths and in honour of the Qur’an and in order not to bow before the people
of misguidance, I temporarily assume that dignified stance. I do not think “the worldly’s’ laws
can oppose these points!
SOME ASTONISHING TREATMENT: It is well-known that everywhere teachers judge in
accordance with knowledge and learning. In whomever and wherever they encounter
knowledge and learning, they will nurture friendship and respect for the person due to their
profession. If a professor from an enemy country visits this country even, teachers will visit
him out of respect for his knowledge and learning, and offer him respect.
6. However, when the highest learned council of the British asked for a six-hundred-word
answer to six questions they asked the Shaykhu’l-Islam’s Office, a scholar and teacher who
has met with the disrespect of the education authorities here, answered those six questions
with six words which met with approval, and answered with true knowledge and learning the
most basic and important principles of the Europeans and their philosophers, and defeated
them. Through the strength he received from the Qur’an, he challenged those European
philosophers. And in Istanbul six months before the proclamation of the Second Constitution,
he invited both the religious scholars and scholars of modern science to debate, and himself
asking no questions answered completely correctly without exception all questions posed to
him. Those who have caused most distress to this scholar and teacher— who has devoted all
his life to the happiness of this nation, and publishing hundreds of treatises in the people’s
own language of Turkish has illuminated them, and is both a fellow-citizen and a co-
religionist and friend and brother—those who have nurtured enmity towards him, and indeed
been disrespectful towards him, have been certain members of the educational establishment
as well as a few official hojas.
And so, what have you got to say to this? Is this civilization? Is it encouraging education? Is it
patriotism? Is it love of the nation? Is it republicanism? God forbid! It is nothing at all! It is
rather that Divine Determining showed hostility where this scholar and teacher hoped for
friendship so that hypocrisy should not become mixed with his learning due to respect, and he
might gain sincerity.
Conclusion
An assault which in my view was astonishing, but was the means to thanks:
“The worldly’, who are extraordinarily egotistical, are so sensitive in their egotism that if it
had been conscious, it would have reached the degree of wonder-working or of great genius.
The matter in question was this:
Through the sensitive balance of their egotism, they perceive in me a little hypocritical
egotism which I had not perceived with my soul and mind, and in violent fashion confront
this egotism which I had not realized. This eight or nine years I have experienced the
following eight or nine times: after they have treated me wrongfully and unjustly, I have
considered Divine Determining and searched out the tricks of my soul, saying: “Why have
they been set to pester me?” Each time I have understood that my soul has unconsciously and
naturally inclined to egotism, or else has knowingly deceived me. So then I have said that
within the injustice of those tyrants Divine Determining has acted justly towards me.
For instance, this summer my friends mounted me on a fine horse and I rode out into the
countryside. On a selfish desire for pleasure awakening in me without my being aware of it,
“the worldly’ opposed that hidden desire of mine so violently that they destroyed not only it,
but also my appetite for many other things. Even, for example, following Ramadan and after
learning of the allusions made to us through his wonder-working which penetrated the Unseen
by one of the great, holy imams of former times, faced with the piety and sincerity of my
brothers and the respect and good opinion of visitors, without my realizing it, my soul wanted
proudly to assume a hypocritical position under the veil of being thankful. Suddenly with
their infinite sensitivity and in a way in which the very particles of hypocrisy could be felt,
“the worldly’ attacked me. I thank Almighty God that their tyranny became a means of my
gaining sincerity.
7. And say: “O my Sustainer! I seek refuge with you from the suggestions of the Evil Ones. *
And I seek refuge with You lest they should come near me.”
O God! O Protector! O Preserver! O Best of Protectors! Preserve me and preserve my
companions from the evil of the soul and of Satan, and from the evil of people of misguidance
and of rebellion. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; indeed, You
are All-Knowing, All-Wise.
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