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Discovering the Code of Cinema in a Prophetic Anectode...
The miracles bestowed upon the prophets as divine endowments are instruments of test both for themselves and for the people who are subject to divine revelation, and through its contents beacons the horizon to the mankind. The rod given to Moses carries a message for the Pharaoh and his devotees. Besides; the rod which brought forth water from where it struck has inspired people for such works as drilling.
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from The Traveler...
One day, the Traveler went to the banks of the Guadalquivir. He had been feeling somewhat strange in the last few days. All through his life, he had always regarded the people he saw, met, listened and talked to as superior to himself. Since the first days of his journey, he had been in trouble with the cravings of the flesh. But then, adopting the words of God's prophet who had a beautiful face which was food for spirits and pleasure and comfort to souls, who said "I shall not exonerate the nafs* for the nafs leads one to evil", he had slowly begun to unfasten the bonds of his body one by one.
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The Political Theology of Making Children's Blood Flow in Qana...
While you're reading these lines, I don't know what the number of civilian deaths in Lebanon will read; as of today it's over five hundred.
A friend (who as a Social Democrat calls Hamas and Hezbollah terror organizations and curses anti-Semitism) watching the attack on Qana at the same time on the same TV news channel (it takes hours to get news of the fire raining on Lebanese children on thematic TV channels, including CNN) says a sentence on the telephone that makes my hair stand on end: "Hitler left his work half finished.
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The Wail of the Oppressed, not the Oppressor, Inflames the World...
Actually Huseyin Hatemi Hodja knows better, but as far as I know, in Islamic doctrine an armed man (fighter) can only be killed for the purpose of "legitimate defense."
Unarmed, defenseless, unattended children, women, the elderly, and the sick cannot be touched. To the contrary, the law protects them. In Guenon's important work, The Symbolism of War and the Metaphysics of Arms, he explains beautifully the course this principle takes in the monotheistic doctrines.
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