There’s no problem here really. It is, after all, the circle of life.
The problem is: he was born in 1677! YES!! It is said that he lived for 256 years!
This is a picture of him was taken in 1927, when he was only 250 years old!
According to Li, the secret of longevity consists of four main practices:
Keep a quiet heart
sit like a tortoise
walk sprightly like a pigeon
sleep like a dog
After he returned home, he died a year later, some say of natural causes, others claim that he told friends that “I have done all I have to do in this world. I will now go home.”, and then allowed his spirit to depart.
This video is truly hilarious and probably has nothing to do with the title of the post, but Hajjaj conveys, to some extent of course, the fake open-mindedness some of us expatriates claim to have adopted far away from home.
Of course I am all for standing for one’s principles and beliefs, but there are people who manage to simultaneously live in both sides of the fence and who eventually appear as hypocrites.
It kind of reminds me of those people who have no problem committing the seven sins [السبعة وذمتها] … yet when the Adhan calls, they’ll take a break from whatever bad thing they were doing, as if nothing’s wrong, pray, and then resume the wrongdoing after prayer … and of course when you dare to question their integrity, they’d say something to the effect of (إن الصلاة تنهى عن الفحشاء والمنكر) (Prayer restrains from indecency and evildeeds. (29:45)).
So, in other words, those people will continue to commit all the sins they can possibly commit in a one lifetime and pray for forgiveness in the hopes that God shut his eyes and overlooked all what they did. Well I would rather not pray at all than be a double-faced hypocrite who will probably serve more time in hell than someone who never prayed but never committed as much sins.
I watched this amazing video taken not so long ago at a South African national park.
The first thing that came to my mind was an African proverb I read about a couple of months ago:
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
Is this any different from the world we live in?
Indeed it is the 21st century, but we know for a fact it’s still the law of the jungle we adhere to: the strong crushes the weak; those with the most advanced nuclear arsenal controls the rest of the world …
But in the end of the day, aren’t we all running as fast as we can just to make ends meet?
This is purely an educational post. I found the article valuable and therefore decided to share it with you.
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"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death."
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