Jonah was a wise old man who lived in Israel long, long ago. He was loved and respected by the people. Everybody came to him to solve their problems, and he gave them wise advice. God loved him because he was a good man and he helped his fellow beings. Jonah loved God. He followed his teachings and prayed to God all the time. Nineveh was a neighboring country of Israel. The people in this country were known to be very evil. They did not follow God. They did bad things. They were cruel, greedy, and were always fighting with other people Because of this God was angry with the people of Nineveh. One day, God spoke to Jonah and called for his service. Jonah, I have something to tell you. My Lord, I am lucky to be of your service. Tell me I am listening to you my God. There is a place called Nineveh not very far from here. The people living in this place are evil. They steal from each other, kill their own brothers, and do a lot of other evil things. Their king is lazy and selfish. He eats, drinks and enjoys himself while his people are starving. He does not care about his people. Their actions anger me and I have decided to destroy them. I understand my God. I am well aware of their actions. They are a wretched group of people. They are also our sworn enemies. In 40 days, I will destroy the land of Nineveh and everyone living there. This is my decision. So be it, my Lord. You have told me all of this. But I still do not understand how I can be of service to you. Tell me, my Lord, what should I do to make your wish come true? You are a good and righteous man Jonah. You have always obeyed me and followed my teachings. I trust you and your abilities. This is why you must go to Nineveh immediately and talk to the people about me. They do not know me. You must speak about my love You must tell them to change their ways and become good people. Only you can do this. But God, how will I do this? They are evil. They will not listen to me. Also, they are our sworn enemies. The people of Nineveh are constantly attacking us and waging war against us. They try to steal from us and harm our women. That is all true. But still, you must go and talk to them. They will have a second chance through you. If they fail, they will be destroyed. You are their only hope for survival now. Only you can convince them to change their ways, and turn to me. the one and only living God. I have complete faith in you. God, you have decided to destroy them anyway after 40 days. Then why should I go there and risk my life? My countrymen will be more than happy to hear that Nineveh is going to be destroyed. They will abandon me if they hear that I tried to stop that from happening! This is my will. You must do this Jonah. You must leave for Nineveh immediately! Very well my Lord…as you wish. Jonah was very troubled by what God had asked of him. He was happy that God had decided to destroy the people of Nineveh. They were the enemies of Israel. He did not believe that he could change their ways. But then, how could he disobey God? Jonah finally decided he would not go to Nineveh. He got scared and decided to escape from Nineveh and hide from God. Jonah traveled far from Nineveh over the deserts and barren lands. Finally, he reached the seashore where he saw a ship heading to another city across the sea. He asked the captain whether he could get on the ship. The captain was not happy at first but finally agreed. The sailors did not know about the one true God that Jonah served and believed in. They worshipped stone and wooden idols. They had a god for the sun, another god for the moon, another for the ocean, and so on. Jonah saw this, but he did not speak anything. He went and slept in the lower part of the ship. Jonah was fast asleep in the lower part of the ship. Once the ship had traveled a short distance, the ship got caught in a great storm! They were tossed around in the water like a paper boat Everybody on the ship was very scared and began to cry out loud to their gods. The men on the ship were surprised to see Jonah sleeping peacefully while the great storm was raging outside. Hey Jonah, wake up! wake up! How can you sleep like this? There is a storm outside and the ship is going to be torn apart! Wake up and pray to your God!! We have been praying to our Gods for some time now, but the storm is continuing to rock the boat. No, this is the work of my God, the one and only true God who made the whole world. Did you do anything to make him angry? How can we stop this storm? I tried to hide away from him. He gave me a task, but I refused to do it. that’s why he is angry at me. Now, what should we do? There is nothing else to do. You have no other option but to throw me off the ship And then the storm will go away. My God will leave you alone. No, we cannot do that. You are a good man. We don’t want to harm you. Let us try to throw some of the cargo out and see if we can keep the ship afloat. The sailors started throwing out the packages loaded on the ship one by one, but the storm did not go away. There is no use in doing this. Throw me into the water! Save yourself! I hope your God keeps you safe. When the sailors realized that they had no other option, they threw Jonah off the ship into the sea and like a miracle, the storms subsided. The sea was calm all of a sudden. Just at that moment, a big whale came up and swallowed Jonah. Jonah was scared like never before. He was in the dark and cold. There was a horrible smell around him. Also, it was slimy and all kinds of things were floating around him. It was then that he realized that He was inside a whale! Jonah could not believe this was happening to him but realized that God was doing all of this. Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale. He prayed the whole time to God. He was asking for forgiveness and promised that he would never try to hide away from God. Jonah would lose hope from time to time and thought he would never see daylight again. He thought about the foolish things he had done. How could he believe that he could disobey God and hide from him? This was so stupid of him! Alone in the cold dark insides of the whale, Jonah became very sad, but he called out to God and it gave him strength. He believed that God would keep him safe. On the fourth day, the whale opened its mouth and spit Jonah onto the beach. Jonah was relieved to see the light of day, he had been inside the dark belly of a whale for three days! Then God spoke to him. Jonah, you cannot hide from me. Whatever you do, I am with you all the time. I am so sorry my Lord. I realize now how foolish I have been. Tell me what I can do to make up for this? Do as I told you. You must go to Nineveh and complete the task I gave you. They are evil because they do not know me. They have not heard of my teachings. They deserve a chance to change their ways and become good. I will do whatever you ask of me, my Lord. I shall go to and speak to the people of Niveneh about your undying love! This time, Jonah went to Nineveh as promised. He talked to the people about God and his kingdom. He talked about what had happened to him and how God had rescued him from the raging storm by sending a whale. He showed them why it was important to do good things and be kind to people. He taught them God’s teachings and how God was protecting them and taking care of them at all times. He also warned them about God’s punishment To his surprise, the people of Nineveh listened to him! The king heard of Jonah and called him to the palace. Jonah talked to the king about how God was merciful but that if he didn’t change himself Then the city of Nineveh would be destroyed in 40 days. The king asked for forgiveness for all the bad and horrible things he had done and promised that he would pray to the one and only true God from now on. He also announced throughout the land that everybody should pray to the almighty God that Jonah served. Jonah spent many days with the people of Nineveh. God saw that indeed the people of Nineveh had changed. So, God decided not to punish the city of Nineveh. Later, Jonah realized his work was finished and he started on his journey back to Israel. However, he was still hoping that the Nineveh would be destroyed as he did not completely believe that their people could actually become good. So when God decided not to destroy the city, Jonah was not happy. God realized what he was thinking and spoke to Jonah. Jonah, why are you unhappy? You had said that you would destroy the land of Nineveh. These people are enemies of Israel! Why didn’t you destroy them? Jonah, you don’t understand the good you have done. These people are no longer your enemies. They believe in the one true God, just like you do! I believe that everybody needs a second chance to correct their mistakes. I do not want to punish my people. I love them, I created them! So, if they make use of the opportunity to become good, then why should I destroy them? All of this has been possible through your work Jonah! Go home now, return in peace. You have completed God’s work! Very well my God. I understand now. Thank you for this chance to serve you, my Lord! Thank you for saving me so many times! Jonah then made the journey back to Israel and continued to speak about God and the love for his people. He told everybody the story of how he was trapped inside a whale for 3 days and how God saved him. The people loved and respected him and the old prophet lived for a very long time!
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Hesitation on the off chance that you live in the US , you definitely realize who likes to discuss opportunity and freedom. The most in the Public challenge over who will address what esteems the conservative faction and moderates overall have consumed the possibility that their governmental issues are the legislative issues of Opportunity. Pass on It Toward the Left To Kill our Freedom in its battle for uniformity we on the right we represent our well- deserved opportunity. Sadly for the right that couldn't possibly be more off-base in this episode we will cover a profoundly left-wing thought. Opportunity we'll view at its set of experiences as a political idea and how what comprises opportunity and who will guarantee it as their own has been distorted in, without a doubt, extremely ongoing history yet before we get to that we really want to begin with a short outline of the left and the right as political families. On the off chance that you're new to legislative issues you've presumably gone over explanations like these the lefts drive for an equivalent society and accept that the state ought to assume a significant part in individuals' resides the right accept that a degree of social imbalance is unavoidable and imagine that the public authority ought to play a restricted part in individuals lives and business. This is as the right accepts that saving individual flexibility ought to be the public authority's principal objective and shouldn't force an excessive number of rules on individuals' resides it's normal for starting political classes and recordings to separate the left and the right by the two qualities that their talk appears to essentialize correspondence and opportunity. And afterward to set these two qualities in opposition to one another to make sense of the contention of legislative issues. It's all exceptionally straightforward when individuals are differing over which esteem they favor what's taking cover behind this speedy and simple qualification. However, is a rich history of both opportunity and balance as radical political qualities and the genuine clash that enlivens legislative issues you've likely. As of now naturally comprehend that this division among opportunity and equity is simply unacceptable preservationists have forever been the party of storage up confidential detainment facilities. Expanding the police financial plan and capital punishment they're the party of who isn't permitted to get hitched how ladies aren't permitted to manage their own bodies who isn't permitted to cast a ballot who's permitted in and who isn't permitted to exist for all their prudence. Flagging opportunity doesn't appear to direct their governmental issues so much so what's happening here where does that distinction come from to sort that out how about we investigate a background marked by the left and the right and the job Opportunity has played in that set of experiences. The utilization of the terms left and right to assign political families starts with the French Unrest back in the late eighteenth century France rebelled against its government and when it came time to conclude which job the lord would play in French society. The individuals who upheld the old system sat on the right half of the Public Gathering and the individuals who upheld the Revel Development. The new Republic sat on the left traditionalists on the right reformists on the left hundreds of years after the fact as Fair political frameworks in France and somewhere else turned out to be more characterized they acquired this uncertain phrasing to define harsh boundaries between the preservationists and the moderates who came to address the center thoughts of these two gatherings progressive system on the right liberation on the left. This is the beginning of the cutting edge left and right yet it is additionally a place to pause of a more extended history of Opportunity as a political worth and that set of experiences goes a lot farther back basically to Mesopotamia the main Jews and at last old Greece and Rome where the word that would become Freedom was first utilized as an antonym to subjection to be free was to not be a slave. This unique definition shaped the premise of a portion of the primary formalized political discussions for which we have existing records all in all Opportunity changed from a theoretical idea to a political one and at the center of the this change were discusses energized by two inquiries who will be free and what does that mean a couple of answers start to arise for Aristotle an establishing figure. In the long history of political Hypothesis Opportunity has many parts in vote based system explicitly opportunity is both one decision and being controlled thus and two the capacity to reside as one wishes without obstruction from others. These guide very neatly to the manner in which we actually conceptualize. Opportunity today in pessimistic and positive terms pessimistic Opportunity normally appears as independence from as in Independence from snags or independence from compulsion positive opportunities. My freedom of thought this qualification is generally sloppy and numerous things can be formed as either pretty much convincingly yet they make up the premise of political discussions over opportunity on his end. Aristotle decided to form these opportunities in a political setting by making pessimistic opportunity independence from pressure unmistakable with his idea of equivalent and substituting Rule and positive opportunity 2 by guaranteeing one's capacity to reside. However, they see fit these circumstances to be Opportunity the actual premise of a Vote based Society As per Aristotle. It is critical that individuals should be equivalent in their political influence. This is the variable that separates majority rules systems from different frameworks of government explicitly. A majority rules system is an arrangement of famous sway roundabout inconsistency with a general public where the more prosperous. The well off can use their abundance as political influence without a base degree of equity in influence. It's anything but a vote based system Aristotle contends this by saying that assuming nobody has more control over others to a more noteworthy degree than any other individual. Does nobody is turning into a figurative slave to one more recall that this inquiry of servitude is unimaginably Vital to early legislative issues and the Actual importance of freedom. With this hypothesis of Opportunity then Aristotle consoles individuals of old Greece that essentially by making a political association as it is equitable and equivalent the Greeks have not made themselves captives to their compatriots going against the norm government. In this sense is emancipatory not subjugating obviously this opportunity and equity, without a doubt, barely apply to residents of majority rule city-states regularly meaning non-oppressed men and scarcely any other individual regardless old Greek city-states. Embraced these speculations of Opportunity Athens is maybe the most popular illustration of this. Where after some time the typical resident which to be clear still solely implied non-subjugated men acquired and more command over their legislative issues and consequently. Their lives Athenians tweaked independence from the hands of the tip top who put forth. No attempt to conceal their contempt for this administration by the unfortunate inciting no less than one favorable to a majority rules government Athenian to proclaim that all men are made equivalent and just the public authority perceives. This reality that can ensure Opportunity. This is the main assault on the bogus polarity among opportunity and equity as far as possible back in 300 BC for Majority rule opportunity to be acknowledged as Aristotle plainly states and the legitimate capability of Athens and majority rules systems exhibited. There is a base origination of equity that should be protected without it Opportunity. Just applies to the lucky or not by any stretch but rather Aristotle doesn't stop there he validates these moderately fungible ideas with a substantial illustration of Opportunity. Recreation one of the extraordinary trial of Freedom is to be allowed to take part in comfortable exercises that give joy and are particular from work to have the opportunity to get things done for the good of their own Aristotle. Isolates this independence from popularity based Opportunity so he can legitimize his favored type of government gentry yet this split eventually doesn't make any difference Relaxation has quite recently become cherished as one of the proportions of Freedom. Remember this as Opportunity proceeds to develop and opportunity advances all over the planet various societies Characterize their own originations of Opportunity. Frequently in very much like ways for instance in Indonesia political Freedom was characterized in much similar terms as in old Greece. An antonymic relationship to bondage the narrative of Opportunity in the west gets gotten in the Renaissance during which humanists broke with middle age customs and got back to old Greek and Roman. Messages like crafted by Aristotle these compositions turned out to be course materials for understudies residing during the time and with that the idea of political Opportunity was resuscitated by and by the popularity based ideal when contrasted with the primitive oppression. Most Europeans were residing under started to speak to increasingly more of the overall population ultimately emerging savagely in the Atlantic transformations wielded like progressive Banners. The trademark Freedom equity crew of the French Upset scarcely slips through the cracks in this period that opportunity implied breaking with the system of rulers Masters and the mistreatment of the plebeians was a very normal thought. For the Progressive masses who were ruined with practically no response to their own self-assurance this feeling of individuals being owed Freedom conveyed across the world in the American and Haitian. Unrests where Freedom and equity remained closely connected after all how should the Haitian public at any point be free in the event that they were oppressed. How is it that they could be free on the off chance that they were overwhelmed how is it that they could at any point be free on the off chance that they were not equivalent. The upheaval demonstrated that they also could appreciate Freedom and it showed up just once they gained equivalent status all over the planet progressive Opportunity was requested and hence pronounced obviously. This terrified the elites the time of Dread that followed the French Upset led to an enemy of vote based talk that prompted popularity based constraint.
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This story of resilience and faith is an inspiring example for all believers. May we always trust in Allah's wisdom and guidance, knowing that even in the depths of challenges, His mercy and protection surround us.
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