Posted on 04/27/2005 3:37:22 PM PDT by saquin
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| 4/15/2005 | Clip No. 645 |
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| Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: The Islamic Nation's Problem is That Muslims Do Not Work. The Zionist Gang Has Turned the Desert into an Oasis | |
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The following are excerpts from a friday sermon on Qatar TV by Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi Dr. Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: We use trains and planes, but they are not our trains or planes. The (Westerners) manufacture them and export them to us. True, we can buy the most magnificent things in the world products for our homes and for ourselves. Our people can buy the most luxurious cars, Rolls-Royce or Mercedes 500 or 700, models S, M, and L with all the luxuries. We own them, but we don't manufacture them. We don't even produce a single nail in any of these cars. Others do this for us.
The income of the entire Arab world, including the oil-producing countries, does not reach the that of a European country, such as Spain. Spain ? let alone Germany, France, Britain, or Italy. Just Spain, which is at the bottom of the list of industrial countries... The income of the entire Arab world does not reach it. How come? Because we don't work, and if we do work, we don't do it professionally.
They conducted a survey of the average time that a government employee spends working in a certain Arab country. The average was 27 minutes a day. 27 minutes! The rest of the time he drinks coffee, reads newspapers, and goes on errands here and there. Only a small number of people work. The rest do not.
In the mid 1970s I went to Germany. We arrived during in the morning. I asked the guy who took me from the airport to the convention hall? As I was passing through the empty streets, I asked him how come the streets were not busy, like in our countries. He said: "People are at work." After 7 p.m. he took me back to the hotel, and the streets were empty. I said to him: "What's going on, the streets are empty again." He said: people are back home from work, and they are exhausted. All they want is to eat their dinner, watch the news, and then go to bed, because early next morning they have to wake up for hard work. They commute more than an hour to work and back, and spend an hour at lunch. They work non-stop.
We are a nation that doesn't work. How can we develop if we don't work? When we do work, we don't do it professionally. We keep saying "Don't worry, later, later?" Islam teaches us to do things professionally. Doing things professionally is a religious duty. The Prophet said that Allah ordered to excel in everyhting. He imposed excellence and professionalism. Professionalism must be followed in everything. "If you kill, do it properly, and if you slaughter, do it properly." Even when killing, you must do well.
Unfortunately, we do not excel in either military or civil industries. We import everything from needles to missiles. This is our nation. We still haven't manufactured an engine in our Arab countries. We assemble parts, but have no manufacturing industries. India has manufactured a car, and even a plane, while we still go around in circles like a bull in who turns a grinding mill or a water weal until it reaches exactly where it started.
How come the Zionist gang has managed to be superior to us, despite being so few? It has become superior through knowledge, through technology, and through strength. It ahs become superior to us through work. We had the desert before our eyes but we didn't do anything with it. When they took over, they turned it into a green oasis. How can a nation that does not work progress? How can it grow? |
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sorry for stealing a catchphrase
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No, you're not sorry... you're just pretending to be an Arab. He he he (dirty laugh) !!! ;-))
Not really, as soon as the oil runs out we won't give a damn about those idiots.
It also has it basis in the old Arab shepherd culture. The kids and teeners herded the kids while the patriarchs sat in a tent supervising and the younger adults stood by guarding against raiders. The young shepherds aspired to becoming a warrior who did not have to follow the sheep ang goats all day long trying to avoid stepping on the pellets.
The old Hebrews (the original Bedioun) adapted gradually to urban and farming life and their subsequent dispersion among Europe instilled the Northern European work ethic in them, completely obliterating the old Bedioun culture. The absolutist Seljuk/Ottoman sultans did nothing to change this culture. They just put a surface of submission to the fearless leader on top of it.
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Well, he may have owned a British car.
In the early 90s, I was an aviation contractor in Kuwait following Desert Storm. The Kuwaitis were proud of the fact that, although they held the management positions, the expatriates did all of the work.
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germany? work? geez that was a few years ago!
' "If you kill, do it properly, and if you slaughter, do it properly." Even when killing, you must do well.'
Well, credit them for one thing.
bttt
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