Mankind Smashed Slavery, So Will It Smash Wage-Earning

Mankind Smashed Slavery, So Will It Smash Wage-Earning

In a dream I said: The skirmishing between nations and states is making way for fierce battle between the social classes.

For in the era of slavery, man did not want slavery and smashed it, spilling his blood. Now he has become a wage-earner; he bears that burden and will smash it too.

Mankind has grown old, having passed through five stages: primitive nomadism, slavery, captivity; now the wage-earning age has begun and is passing.

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An Unlawful Way Leads to the Opposite of What Was Intended

An Unlawful Way Leads to the Opposite of What Was Intended

“The murderer may not inherit” [^12] is an important principle: “Someone who pursues his goal by unlawful paths, generally pays the penalty of achieving the opposite of what he intended.”

[^12]:Tirmidhī, Farā’iḍ, 17; Ibn Māja, Farā’iḍ, 8; Musnad, i, 49; Dārimī, Farā’iḍ, 41.

Love of Europe was illicit, as well as blind imitation and familiarity. Its consequences and recompense were the tyrannical animosity of the beloved, and crimes.

The loser and sinner will find neither pleasure nor salvation.

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A Grain of Truth Is to be Found in the Jabriyya and Mu‘tazila

A Grain of Truth Is to be Found in the Jabriyya and Mu‘tazila

O seeker after truth! The Shari‘a differentiates between the past and disasters, and the future and sins.

Divine determining is looked to in connection with the past and calamities, and the word is the Jabriyya’s.

Human accountability is considered concerning the future and sins; then the word is the Mu‘tazila’s. The Mu‘tazila and Jabriyya are reconciled here.

Both these false schools contain a grain of truth; those grains have a particular place; they are false when made general.

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