| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: discerning, and do not say to him who offers you a salutation, 'Thou
art no believer,' craving after the chances of this world's life,
for with God are many spoils! So were ye aforetime, but God was
gracious to you, be ye then discerning; verily, God of what ye do is
well aware.
Not alike are those of the believers who sit at home without harm,
and those who are strenuous in God's way with their wealth and their
persons. God hath preferred those who are strenuous with their
wealth and their persons to those who sit still, by many degrees,
and to each hath God promised good, but God hath preferred the
strenuous for a mighty hire over those who sit still,- degrees from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: an apostle,-a prophet. We called him from the right side of the
mountain; and we made him draw nigh unto us to commune with him, and
we granted him, of our mercy, his brother Aaron as a prophet.
And mention, in the Book, Ishmael; verily, he was true to his
promise, and was an apostle, a prophet; and he used to bid his
people prayers and almsgiving, and was acceptable in the sight of
his Lord.
And mention, in the Book, Idris; verily, he was a confessor,-a
prophet; and we raised him to a lofty place.
These are those to whom God has been gracious, of the prophets of
the seed of Adam, and of those whom we bore with Noah, and of the seed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Meno by Plato: there are neither teachers nor disciples?
MENO: We have.
SOCRATES: And there are no teachers of virtue to be found anywhere?
MENO: There are not.
SOCRATES: And if there are no teachers, neither are there scholars?
MENO: That, I think, is true.
SOCRATES: Then virtue cannot be taught?
MENO: Not if we are right in our view. But I cannot believe, Socrates,
that there are no good men: And if there are, how did they come into
existence?
SOCRATES: I am afraid, Meno, that you and I are not good for much, and
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