...1. Surah Al Fatihah (The Opening) Name This Surah is named Al-Fatihah because of its subject-matter. Fatihah is that which opens a subject or a book or any other thing. In other words, Al-Fatihah is a sort of preface. Period of Revelation It is one of the very earliest Revelations to the Holy Prophet. As a matter of fact, we learn from authentic Traditions that it was the first complete Surah which was revealed to Muhammad (Allah's peace be upon him). Before this, only a few miscellaneous verses were revealed which form parts of `Alaq, Muzzammil, Muddaththir, etc. Theme This Surah is in fact a prayer which Allah has taught to all those who want to make a study of His book. It has been placed at the very beginning of the book to teach this lesson to the reader: if you sincerely want to benefit from the Quran, you should offer this prayer to the Lord of the Universe. This preface is meant to create a strong desire in the heart of the reader to seek guidance from the Lord of the Universe, Who alone can grant it. Thus Al-Fatihah indirectly teaches that the best thing for a man is to pray for guidance to the straight path, to study the Quran with the mental attitude of a seeker- after-truth and to recognize the fact that the Lord of the Universe is the source of all knowledge. He should, therefore, begin the study of the Quran with a prayer to him for guidance. From this theme, it becomes clear that the real relation between Al-Fatihah and the Quran is not that...
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...Doing less is more. A common phrase we've all heard before, the idea that not doing something is better than doing. Whether this be in terms of making up with someone in a fight or building a country. Thomas Jefferson once said, "Determine to be idle...it is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing something." This then brings up the question is it more productive to always be doing something, or does doing nothing have a purpose? The idea of doing nothing to accomplish something is counterproductive, you are going to doing nothing but are expecting to see a result, rather a result requires for something to be done. Doing nothing is better then doing something, although a contrasting statement, is one of some truth. If you've ever gotten into and argument with a friend,...
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...people, especially those who have nothing, are willing to do anything or even sacrifice himself just for the sake of someone he loves. The movie, “The Hunger Games,” is all about friendship, family, problems of the society and being you as an individual. Nowadays, it is very obvious that most of us want an equality which can never be happen. In the movie, I saw that there’s a barrier between rich and poor. Rich people make the poor ones as their entertainment while poor people do nothing but to follow. Like our government, it is visible to us that having a position in government makes them superior. In just a blink of an eye everyone follows, everyone becomes a slave, and everyone is powerful when you are in a position. Wrong doing becomes a trash when it pertains to our government. They do nothing but to buy anything even the service of our dear servants. Money is very powerful, where it can buy anything. As a citizen we have the rights to fight for what is right! We should know how to act for something that we want to accomplish. Come to think of it, without us government officials are nonsense. We are the reason why they are in that position that’s why we are responsible for their good doings. Not because we’re poor they have the rights to do anything they want. Those corrupt government officials must be jailed. They don’t deserve to be respected because the stole some of the money that is not for them. Instead of doing different projects, which can help...
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...sure everything was followed by the company. He also could have written a letter or emailed someone to make sure they are doing what they supposed to do. 2. Bonuses and raises are not given when they are supposed to. Companies normally say they are going to give people raises or a bonus once they have been with their company for at least three months. But, in order to get the bonus or a raise you have to make...
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...enthusiastically. This generation is particularly in trouble because jobs are scarce and many of us will be stuck doing jobs we hate just because we need money. Although this may be the right move for our careers now, this shouldn’t be something we do for the rest of our lives. it is best we search for something we are passionate about. There is nothing worse than having to wake up every morning during the week to mindlessly go do work you don’t even care about. However, this is never really an issue when you are passionate about the work you do. If you are not forced to work somewhere because of monetary constraint, you truly enjoy what you do and you never really work a day in your life. Even if you like your job you have to realize that not every day is going to be an enjoyable one. There are highs and lows, but when you are passionate about the work you do you look past the dull days. Your creative process is also different. You are more inclined to come up with creative ideas when you like what you do. It is also very important to love your job because at the work you spend almost half of your life. If you every day angry, unhappy, it all affects your health and the people that surround you. When you really enjoy what you do, nothing will stop you from getting your work done. Because you are passionate about what you do, you feel unstoppable and nothing can obstruct you from achieving greatness. Your passion ignites your work, and like a rocket, it accelerates you past...
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...Entrepreneurship quotes: ENTREPRENEURSHIP QUOTES 1. “Everything started as nothing.” – Ben Weissenstein [tweet] 2. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.” – Catherine Cook [tweet] 3. “If you’re not doing the things that you love, then your life is not worth living. What are you here for?” – King Sidharth [tweet] 4. “Manual labor sucks, dude.” – Alex Fraiser [tweet] 5. “A lot of people have said that the internet is a teenager. Guess who understands a teenager best: a teenager.” – Syed Balkhi [tweet] 6. “Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. The earlier you start, the more time you have to mess up.” – Emil Motycka [tweet] 7. “There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.’ Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it.” – Adora Svitak [tweet] 8. “Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.” – Joe Penna [tweet] 9. “Over-deliver every time.” – Alex Maroko [tweet] 10. “There is no reason to be hesitant… becoming an entrepreneur is a learning experience.” –Savannah Britt [tweet] 11. “I could never learn what I’m learning at college. They don’t teach it there, because it can’t be learned in that way.” – Philip Hartman [tweet] 12. “You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t...
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...situation in any significant way.” This is saying that we as humans need to make better situations when it comes to affluence and morality. If something tragic was to happen to us we would want others to come to our aid. Three the counter arguments are, having lacked food, shelter, and medical attention, if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it, and It is the government’s responsibility to provide for famine relief, and giving to privately organized famine-relief agencies will only encourage the government to shirk its responsibility. Having being lacked in essential things we need to survive is very bad. Lacking in these things can cause suffering and death. Now, if we can prevent something bad from happening we should. As long as we are not causing harm, danger, or any wrong doing to the situation. Singer’s example was, “if I am walking past a shallow pond and see a child drowning in it, I ought to wade in and pull the child out. This will mean getting my clothes muddy, but this is insignificant, while the death of the child would presumably be a very bad thing.” I agree with this comment. What is more important, saving a drowning child or worrying about your clothes getting muddy? I believe your reaction time to something like this to be superior. You...
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...amongst each other on a private network if you will. But what exactly is computer hacking? Think of it as a predator in your home, seeing all of your personal moments whenever they like. Have you ever been searching the web, and a random pop-up ad comes up with a “No Thank You” bar? If you have, someone has tried to hack you. These bars are used as decoys, and while you think you are closing the ad, you are really activating software that gives the hacker instant access to your IP address and network information. What about if you are searching for coupons or recipes, and you want to download these to your PC? A file may come up where it asks you to SAVE or RUN the file, and when you do, nothing happens. Some may realize that something is not right, but the majority of us would generally think nothing of it, and continue surfing the web. This too is a very common form of hacking. Social Media is another way that hacking can occur. You may see an article with a...
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...Discuss the concept of nothing as used in King Lear. Consider the themes of the play as you discuss lines such as “nothing will come of nothing, speak again.” And “the quality of nothing has no such need to hide itself.” And “I am better than thou art now. I am a fool, thou art nothing.” Nothing becomes a double symbol for King Lear’s ignorance to the truth and inability to perceive nothing. It also symbolizes King Lear’s paranoia which is brought on by his ignorance and short shortsightedness. This is due to the fact that power under King Lear has consistently been contended, highlighting its fragility and vulnerability. Nothing also symbolizes the fear of becoming insignificant and destitute. Nothing is symbolic of a way to perceive reality where the fragility, dynamism and human nature’s obsession with power obscures. The idea of nothing symbolizes King Lear’s paranoia. Shakespeare explores the idea of nothing by implying the common characteristic of chasing away things that people don’t understand or things that are different by having King Lear banish his favorite daughter due to his inability to comprehend the fact that she wants ‘nothing’ from him. King Lear is so unable to accept this unusual and probably new idea of not wanting the power and fortune that he has, that he becomes suspicious. Not wanting anything is seen as a strange thing in the play just as it is seen in today’s society. There is usually and exterior motive when doing something to benefit other people...
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...Creativity vs Activity: Transforming Leisure as We Know It In “Doing Nothing is Something”, by Anna Quindlen, she expresses her concern about the extent of scheduling parents do for their children. She argues that children have lost the sense of what it’s like to have nothing to do, because their parents have enabled them to perpetually be busy. By scheduling every minute of a child’s day, there is no chance for downtime. In order for children to find creativity and explore it they must be allowed time to do nothing. Downtime allows imagination, ingenuity and inventiveness of children to become better thinkers. The current society has become so fast paced, and filled with activity we have lost the importance of what leisure brings, balance. Creativity best presents itself when there is downtime, it allows one to expand and form ideas within their own minds, which are unlimited. As children, once schoolwork and chores are done, there should be play time, when they can just be kids. Children need time to create moments like fighting giants, and watching dragons attack castles. The reality is, they are fighting an old tree, long past dead with a stick and watching clouds pass in the sky. These are just a couple examples of how creativity and imagination can happen, and should continue. Quindlen writes, “I don’t believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become and actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving...
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...Bullying is something people do to other to make them feel good about themselves. Bullies don’t know what other are going throw at home. When kids have to go to school and have to deal with bullies they might end up doing something to hurt themselves. Bullies don’t pick on people bigger than them they pick on people smaller than them because they think the smaller people can’t do nothing to harm them. I think the reason why bullies pick on other is so that they and look cool or because their friends are doing it. Bullies and be having problems at home and go to school and take it out on others. Some kid might act that way because their mother or father is not in their life or maybe they just wasn’t razed right. Low self-esteem may not be the leading cause of why people bully others but it is still an...
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...whole new world of possibilities and maybe what you have thought to be right your entire life, to be viewed as completely wrong. How Deep Does the Rabbit Hole Go? I am sitting in a black desk chair typing this paper, feeling my fingers strike the keys. Looking at the screen but still completely aware of all my surroundings, hearing my neighbors annoying dogs bark as I type. I am feeling a little bothered. I know all of this because I am using my senses to let me know where I am and what I am doing. So the question now gets deeper…How do I know what a chair feels like, what a computer looks like, or even know what a dog is? Is there even a chair? Is all of this real? Or is this all in my mind? Nagel brings up some fascinating points in Chapter 2. How do we know anything? Everything in our lives up to this point is based on what you believe, whether it’s what a dog looks like, what a computer is…absolutely everything you know about anything has all been an experience you’ve had or something you’ve thought of. What if there was no world at all? What if all of this was in your head like some sort of...
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...is thought to be a ‘surveillance society’ by using technology to monitor the actions of the population by using more than 6 million CCTV cameras (Daily Mail, 2016). In support of mass surveillance, the ‘if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear’ argument is used commonly against privacy advocates. However, there are those that have discredited this claim and argue against it. In this essay, arguments will be made to explain why I disagree with the statement ‘if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear from surveillance’. This will be done by exploring the right to privacy, the problem with not knowing...
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...Dear Mr. Kierkegaard, I have read about your philosophy and I have to tell that I am inclined to disagree with your findings on the individual’s sickness-to-death because of having to make rational and ethical decisions throughout life. While I must agree that it is not easy and it does bring much stress to make these types of decisions; it doesn’t matter what the subject is, I disagree that making the right choices in life or having to go through that process is what ultimately is going to kill us or bring us to despair and that there is absolutely nothing in this “earthly realm” that can save us from it except committing to God or to the infinite. God is, has been and will probably always be something that people can lean on in times of despair and it seems to work for a lot of people in helping maintain their sanity. As to the infinite I do not see any benefit on committing to something that we know nothing of and will ultimately never know much about. A man can go through life and knock down any obstacle that is put in his way and this can be done the right way or the wrong way. As existentialism explains, the world is irrational or beyond total comprehension and the individual has the ultimate choice on how they decide to live in this irrational world. So, one can go through life living a life that will seem fit to this world and always worrying about expectations and what other people will say or how other people in the world live or one can choose to live a life...
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...Nothing is a rope around our ankles holding people back. In the novel Freak the Mighty two young boys both very different go on quests and adventures around the town. Many themes can be found in this novel, A few themes that can be shown are looks can be deceiving. Another theme was if you nothing you waste precious moments your life will be pointless. These are some examples of theme. To start, the theme looks can be deceiving is a common theme throughout the book. First on page Freak talks smack to Blade, a kid who has been in juvenile court multiple times, this supports the theme looks can be deceiving because although Freak is small and disabled he acts like a fully grown adult.This theme connects to the theme because it shows that even if you are small and weak you can still be strong and brave on the inside. This shows the theme because anyone can relate to Freak being small and weak in this big world. Regardless you may be small but you have a part to play and even though Freak doesn’t look capable he plays his part. Another example is on page Gram asks Max what would happen if he ran into Tony D again and Max said he would run the other way. This...
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