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Desire for supremacy

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Desire for supremacy

2020. július 25. - 18:49

Well, stop telling me the truth and I'll tell you what's up! Are you familiar that phrase, aren't you?

This is heard day by day, in which an individual, a community, or even a nation expresses its primitiveness. Another version of that is also true when criticism is expressed in the same style. How dare you open your mouth when you put a curtain on women and ride roughshod over their right and cut the hands and feet?
Ignorance, illiteracy meets a turbulent temper and the above formula is produced. It is not the critics of one side on the field, but of everyone who is involved in today's debates. An intelligent approach never emphasizes its own cleverness in a conversation, but ready for the openness in order to supplement its own knowledge. When new information confronts with what is one's mind, we should listen to each other till the end then bring up arguments and wait for our partner to confirm or amend. But that's not what happens. Crashing door to the house! There are arguments declared how our partner should look according to a standard what we apply for ourselves. Standards, though, can be dangerous. Especially when it comes to stone-etched standards that cannot change. I'm not talking about standards in the physical sense.
I started my African career with the arrogance of white people. „I'll show you! You're stupid, but I'll explain!” I introduced my own primitive culture into a much more intelligent medium that was physically stone age, while I came from the atomic age. By my standards, they were barbaric, ignorant humanoids to whom I had to descend and raise them to my damn height! Then, when I was thirsty and couldn't find water in the savannah by my standards, but they found, and they even ate tasty food according to the standards they followed, I realized that I need to change. In my culture, my own narrow knowledge is sure that sounds nicely, but going beyond the boundaries of my culture it worth nothing. In the middle of the savannah, in vain I explain the significance of E = mc2 , and in vain I know Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, if there is no use of that.
There, this knowledge was temporarily superfluous, but only temporarily! By learning the skill of finding water, living with local people it creates a state where they ask questions. Then, with the appropriate conduct and modesty, the standard within which my culture sees the world, can be explained. Behold! They never mocked me. At most they laughed at things they thought were strange. But in their brains, they put together that this knowledge is necessary for survival in my area. Because, in the savannah, information serves survival, so it's not a joke.

Returning to Europe, I've found a completely different approach. Here the information is not for survival but for slandering others, desire for supremacy or simply a content for sale. We are misled by the seeming culture that we regard as our own achievement, even though it is nothing more than a passing state. Yes, it is! If it is capable for constant change, it will disappear, but if it stiffens, unable to change, it will simply be extinct. This item is well known to aboriginal peoples, therefore they listen to the stories of the strangers around the fire, because their survival may depend on the knowledge what is conveyed to them. But as far as the culture of supremacy, humiliating and arrogance is concerned, it eliminates itself, no matter which power practices it.
I would like to make it clear that I am not criticizing the classical forms of cultures or faiths, but the people's current attitudes towards each other, which make them unable to exchange knowledge in peace.
To avoid being accused of prejudice, let me recall an Iranian story here.
After a long stay in Africa, I went to Iran, where an Ayatollah was wondering how could I spend so much time with blacks? I started my stories and told that I experienced in the ndebele tribe this and in the bambara tribe that. True, they do not have a Book, but they all fit in with harmony to the creation as it is recorded in the Scripture, otherwise they would not be able to survive. They do not need a Book, they know what the Divine Law is even without it. When I put together the customs of 4-5 African tribes, the truth of almost the entire Quran becomes practice before my eyes. The Ayatollah looked ahead for a long time, then said: in our case, when 4-5 Muslims meet and argue, Satan's truth becomes practice.

Abdullah ibn Mas’ud reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “No one who has the weight of a seed of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise.” Someone said, “But a man loves to have beautiful clothes and shoes.” The Prophet said, “Verily, Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty. Arrogance means rejecting the truth and looking down on people.” In another narration, the Prophet said, “No one who has the weight of a seed of faith in his heart will enter Hellfire.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 91
Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Muslim

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