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Saudi Arabia

October 11, 2008

As a complete way of life, Islam has provided guidelines and rules for every sphere of life and society. Naturally, a functioning economic system is vital for a healthy society, as the consumption of goods and services, and the facilitation of this by a common medium of exchange, play a major role in allowing people to realize their material and other goals in life. Islam has set some standards, based on justice and practicality, for such economic systems to be established. These standards aim to prevent the enmity that often occurs between different socioeconomic sections. Of course, it is true that the gathering of money concerns almost every human being who participates in transactions with others. Yet, while these standards recognize money as being among the most important elements in society, they do not lose sight of the fact that its position is secondary to the real purpose of human existence, which is the worship of God. An Islamic economic system is not necessarily concerned with the precise amount of financial income and expenditure, imports and exports, and other economic statistics. While such matters are no doubt important, Islam is more concerned with the spirit of the economic system. A society that implements Islamic laws and promotes Islamic manners will find that it bring together all the systems – social, economic, and so forth – that it deals with. Islam teaches that God has created provision for every person who He has brought to life. Therefore, the competition for natural resources that is presumed to exist among the nations of the world is an illusion. While the earth has sufficient bounty to satisfy the needs of mankind, the challenge for humans lies in discovering, extracting, processing, and distributing these resources to those who need them. Islam consists of a set of beliefs which organizes the relationship between the individual and his Creator; between the person and other human beings; between the person and universe; and even the relationship of the person to himself. In that sense, Islam regulates human behavior, and one type of human behavior is economic behavior. Economic behavior is dealt by Muslims as a means of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. In Islam, human behavior -whether in the economic area or others - is not value free; nor is it value neutral. It is connected with the ideological foundation of the faith.

July 6, 2008

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant.
 His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets.
He began his literary career as a novelist; as a fervent advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen (The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891) he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898). Among these, Widower's Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession savagely attack social hypocrisy, while in plays such as Arms and the Man and The Man of Destiny the criticism is less fierce. Shaw's radical rationalism, his utter disregard of conventions, his keen dialectic interest and verbal wit often turn the stage into a forum of ideas, and nowhere more openly than in the famous discourses on the Life Force, «Don Juan in Hell», the third act of the dramatization of woman's love chase of man, Man and Superman (1903).
In the plays of his later period discussion sometimes drowns the drama, in Back to Methuselah (1921), although in the same period he worked on his masterpiece Saint Joan (1923), in which he rewrites the well-known story of the French maiden and extends it from the Middle Ages to the present.Other important plays by Shaw are Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), a historical play filled with allusions to modern times, and Androcles and the Lion (1912), in which he exercised a kind of retrospective history and from modern movements drew deductions for the Christian era.
 In Major Barbara (1905), one of Shaw's most successful «discussion» plays, the audience's attention is held by the power of the witty argumentation that man can achieve aesthetic salvation only through political activity, not as an individual.
 The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), facetiously classified as a tragedy by Shaw, is really a comedy the humour of which is directed at the medical profession. Candida (1898), with social attitudes toward sex relations as objects of his satire, and Pygmalion (1912), a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middle-class morality and class distinction, proved some of Shaw's greatest successes on the stage.
It is a combination of the dramatic, the comic, and the social corrective that gives Shaw's comedies their special flavour.
Shaw's complete works appeared in thirty-six volumes between 1930 and 1950, the year of his death.
Some of George Bernard Shaw Quotes:

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

 

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

 

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

 

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

 

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

 

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.

I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.


06:09 AM Jul 31 2008

lchkthg
Viet Nam
I can feel that he's a sweet man!!!

11:18 PM Jul 29 2008

pink angel

pink angel
Saudi Arabia

 my opinio about him , is that he is a wonderful man and he worte an awesom books i studied most of them in the collage , thank you for reminding me with this great writier

04:21 AM Jul 28 2008

seren sunshine
Turkey

 he is very clever!

03:06 AM Jul 26 2008

imaazh

imaazh
United Arab Emirates

 i wish i can be like him

02:49 AM Jul 24 2008

Evachen

Evachen
China

a brilliant man!

08:39 AM Jul 22 2008

jenny_emo

jenny_emo
United States

 seems interesting

07:27 AM Jul 21 2008

valh

valh
Mauritania

 it is good to know about this great writer who was a star in the sky of English literature. So, thanks for the information you introduced about him.

02:15 AM Jul 20 2008

figi

figi
Turkey

i love this guy and his mind:)

"the worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. that's the essence of inhumanity."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."

"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?""

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."

and i like his dialogues:P

George Bernard Shaw telegrammed Winston Churchill just prior to the opening of Major Barbara: "Have reserved two tickets for first night. Come and bring a friend if you have one."

Churchill wired back, "Impossible to come to first night. Will come to second night, if you have one."

10:25 AM Jul 19 2008

calipha3

calipha3
Egypt

 Super man.

10:23 AM Jul 19 2008

calipha3

calipha3
Egypt

 He is a brilliant man, I read some of his works, such a amazing things!

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November 12, 2007

Dear George
Greetings
I would like – my friend- to share with you what I have just written, and
By the way
It does not contain Anthrax


(1 )
My Friend
I would like to tell you that I do not hate America, but I do not like it either


(2)
My Friend
I do not hate America
That stays until morning working to produce medicine for humans (Regardless of their beliefs, values and affiliations)
, but I do not like America who launches the first atomic bomb on human.
!


(3)
I do not hate Hemingway
But I do not like Fukuyama


(4)
I do not hate America
That discovered Black Gold (Oil)
but I do not like all The White House decisions


(5)
I do not hate Statue of liberty
But I hate liberty /the statue


(6)
I do not hate America
That gave us this secret box Internet
but I do not like Bill Gates
who absorbs every dollar in your pocket to send it to the Israeli Army To kill a Palestinian Citizen
whose only sin is that he wants to keep his Land


(7)
I do not hate America
That believes in God
and loves Jesus and Virgin Mary
I do Love Jesus as I love Mohamed (peace be upon him)
But I hate the new religion (Globalization) that “Friedman” calls for and wants every one to believe in and “Friedman”- of course- does not differentiate between Prophets and Sales managers


(8)
I do not Hate Hollywood
I adore a lot of its wonderful movies
I think, you will agree with me –George- how distinguished is Bruce wills,
Tom Hanks
And Mel Gibson
OH.. George
I should stop a little at the last Name
Do you remember " ..The two amazing movies “Brave Heart
And “the patriot” He starred as a freedom fighter
Who wanted to liberate his territory and people from the colonizer
Was Wa ll ace in The brave heart A terrorist or a Fighter?
Weren’t Your Grandfathers –George-
Nobel Fighters who freed their Land
And made a beautiful home
In Palestine –George- everyday a new Palestinian Wa ll ace is born, your Government describes him As Terrorist, Criminal
and your Government supports Israel to kill him
......
Yes, I do not hate Hollywood
But I do not like “CNN” and its suspicious media reports،

(9)
I do not hate Julia Roberts
But I do not like condoleezza rice

(10)
George, I am like you
I have a small house, kind neighbors
whom I love and they love me. And wonderful friends that I breathe as Oxygen
and little kids I worry about them from an explosion of the school bus tires
that takes them from School to home.
I want to see my friends living their great lives peacefully
I want to see my children growing in front of my eyes Peacefully
and I do not want any harm to happen to other children..
or other friends
or other houses
or countries
But – George- I have a brother in Palestine
Every day one of his children is killed (with American Bullets)
Every day a new room in his House is demolished (by American Bulldozer)
Every day a tree is stolen from his field
In spite of all this, (Your President) Bush Comes, to tell the whole world
That “Sharon” the thief, the killer is( A man of peace)
Imagine!!

(11)
Are you still as usual - my friend – you do not watch the News??
Please, watch it today on Channels other than CNN
And
Tell me what you think ?

(12)
At This Moment as I have finished writing this letter to you
I’m standing up from the chair, going to the window, looking at the sky watching a beautiful moon (exactly the same moon you watch)
Breathing oxygen (exactly the same Oxygen you breathe, and pray God to keep this land which holds us all safe.
Keep our children safe; keep us away from Intelligent Wars that the White House politicians invented.
George, do you believe that there are intelligent wars??
All wars are stupid George
All wars are stupid
Good Bye,

your friend
Mohamed Alrutian
Rafha-North Saudi

This is what we want to say .... !!

06:00 PM Feb 19 2008

Casiol

Casiol
Malaysia

i agree with u....I do not hate America, but I do not like it either

but it's a little bit confusing when the others told u that america is not creating havoc in other country....

i always watch the news and what can i do is just pray to the God... i'm not that tough to fight back... but i must not cry becoz i must be strong... thank God that i still can live in freedom but i don't know whether it will be everlasting......

well i'm not accusing others because of it but i do hope that the war will be ended soon..........   

06:06 AM Dec 12 2007

choclate ice cream
Saudi Arabia

i couldn't be more agree

these is what i wanna say

it just that some times i get lost in wards

thank you

see ya

10:36 AM Nov 17 2007

khafid
Australia

 Al Haiyy   Al Qaiyaum

11:14 AM Nov 16 2007

apple150080
China

i am very glad to make friends with American.

want to know about American,especially American culture .my english is not good but it's my pleasure to write something here .

09:15 AM Nov 16 2007

matt_

matt_
Cuba

I agree with you Mohamed, i hate too the american army who fight in many countries  killing innocent people (including childrens, womans and old people)

12:13 AM Nov 16 2007

小艾Mary
China

 Hello!Every body.I am Mary.I just want to learn english,Can you help me?

08:29 PM Nov 15 2007

donglee

donglee
China

 Americia is a powerful country,as we all know,so it should play a great role to keep the peace of the world rather break it,because the Iraq war has caused so much damage and death to not only people there but also the American citizens,the American army has to take the serious consquence .

08:18 PM Nov 15 2007

greatwall2008
China

as a saiesing goes:every coins has two sides!

if you acceptadvantages,you haveto accept disaddvanges

08:18 PM Nov 15 2007

greatwall2008
China

as a saiesing goes:every coins has two sides!

if you acceptadvantages,you haveto accept disaddvanges

07:21 PM Nov 15 2007

i_moses
Indonesia

 Hi, Guys...Just calm down! Our friend, Mr Rafha, just showed us his points of view, His perspectives. It is a common thing in democratic countries in the world. We all know USA is theWorld Democracy Hero. She fights for world democracy through public relation campaign, NGOs, Gvnt policy ect. To my surprise the truly American like Kanaobi has shown that USA cannot convince one of  her citizens how meaningful it is to listen to others' voices in democratic realm. Differences in opinions are something that we must appreciate. Instead of yelling out why don't we listen to the tiny little hurt hearts. We are doing this sincerely and trying to be open minded. I am sure absolutely we will see the truth in Mr Rafha's perspectives. Peace and Love.

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