One of the big mistakes of old people, including me, is to pass on 10-20 years of experience as unquestionable truth, while the world has accelerated and the realities of yesterday become outdated for today. We have to judge the difference between constant and changing while we old people are not capable for that. However, the brain needs to be maintained and kept up to date.
My generation was involved to praise earthly people as if they were deities. Those who have the same age as me or a bit older remember the ovations when names of Stalin or Rakosi were mentioned. Later, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat under the regime of Kadar was lighter.
A man sat beside me and asked questions on Christian-Muslim reconciliation. Why it has not an institutional form, he asked? I was just sitting and looking out of my head. Because I still don't understand the question. What kind of reconciliation did he speak about?
Be careful when you hear the call for unity, because they call you usually for uniformity and not for unity. The goal is not the compromise. However, there is only one thought in the mind of the caller: let everyone be as I am! The trouble is, if one sees him/herself in thousands or millions of copies, one gets an alarming picture. This is the Mao or Hitler complex. Because, I may discover some good qualities in myself, but when I magnify myself, the negative qualities will dominate spectacularly. Therefore, modesty, the creative modesty, is better.
Could anyone give bribes to Stalin or Saddam Hussein? It would have been difficult to recommend something that was not available to them. The country was theirs! Now I was aiming the attempt of a small man who wants to approach, and I did not want bring forth the blackmail potential of another great power. Obviously, the US could create a situation for them that they were forced into. But a little man cannot offer from the material world something what they would have not laughed at or angered at. We can imagine how the Creator of the Worlds is facing the similar experiments!
Teachings will be ceased when their proclaimers become sculptures. Humans are lazy. It is easier to erect a monument for someone than to read and analyze the thoughts what made the person famous. So, the thoughts of person that way will not remain with us. However, the way how he wore his beard, cap or his firm stand as he has become a sculpture will remain forever.
In Arabic knowledge and science is the same word: ’Ilm, علم .Scientist Alim, عالم ,and the same written form with different pronunciation: Alem means world. Worlds or Universe is: Alemein, عالمين .Based on the miracle of Arabic language knowledge, science and universe can be deducted from each other etymologically. This unique fact alone can generate a lot of thoughts.
I was born and grew up in a region where the Swabians and the Gypsies lived alongside with the Hungarians. We sat on the benches side by side at school and we never knew who the other was. It was simply not an issue what had any importance. We didn't even know who followed which religion. We were glad to have a hole in our ass and we had no intention to deal with religion.
Imam Bukhari and Ibn Jarir have cited this view of Hadrat Ubayy bin Ka'ab: "We took the Holy Prophet saying: “If the son of Adam had two valleys full of wealth, he would long for a third valley; the son of Adam's belly cannot be filled but by earth, to be from the Quran until Alhakum at takathur was sent down.”
There is a nasty word that has come into vogue: compliance. Others tell us to what we have to comply to. They also prescribe the order of compliance for things and processes. Then the order fails and comes another what we must comply to again. When can we comply to our own order? Why should we fit to the compliance of others throughout our lives? But once we fit in, why don't we comply to something that harmonizes with us and is eternal?
The prism is a wonderful example to demonstrate how does men understand in general. Light goes through the prism and it divides the light into its components according to wavelengths. As a result, colors like red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet will be formed from the one light. Human understanding is the same. Some understands only the yellow, some only the red and the other understands only the blue. All of them understand well even so they are in constant dispute. If they would put the parts together, it would release the whole light.
