{"id":808,"date":"2013-06-08T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=808"},"modified":"2024-09-20T19:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T16:09:47","slug":"%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%85%d8%a9-8-%d8%a3%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%85%d8%a9-8-%d8%a3%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the last article, we talked about some leaders, and how they acted wisely in life\u2019s situations and as a result, people\u2019s lives and communities were impacted. Today, we continue our talk about wisdom in different situations. Wise Solomon says: \u201cAnd a wise man\u2019s heart discerns both time and judgment.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So any wise person is capable of estimating everything and every situation perfectly, thus their words and actions will have great impact.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Furthermore, they may transform attitudes and persons thought to be failures into successes, as happened with the mother of Thomas Edison, the teacher of Teddy Stoddard and the wise famous Churchill, Britain\u2019s Prime Minister.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hence, Solomon the Wise says: \u201cA fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.\u201d And again: \u201cThere is desirable treasure, And oil in the dwelling of the wise, But a foolish man squanders it.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Therefore a wise person wins through patience and humility, while the foolish and haughty lose, and that is exactly what happened with the Chancellor of Harvard University in 1884, when he lost what he should have gained, thanks to his imprudence.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lack of wisdom leads to loss:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe Chancellor will be very busy all day,\u201d said the secretary of the Chancellor of Harvard University in Boston, when a couple in plain clothes asked to see the Chancellor without a prior appointment. \u201cWe\u2019ll wait,\u201d the countrywoman replied.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They waited for several hours, the secretary hoping that they would be discouraged and leave, but they didn\u2019t, and insisted on meeting him.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The secretary decided to ask the Chancellor to meet them just for a few minutes, so they might leave. He agreed in exasperation and anger, for someone in his important position had time only for the elite. Besides, he detested all peasants dressed in cheap gingham.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the couple stepped into the Chancellor\u2019s office, the lady told him that they had a son who\u2019d studied at Harvard for one year, but he passed away in an accident, and they decided to give a donation to have a memorial constructed in his honor at the Harvard campus, because he loved this university.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMadam,\u201d he replied harshly, \u201cwe can\u2019t erect a building for every student who studied at Harvard and died, or else this university would look like a cemetery\u201d.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lady replied that they would like to donate a building to the university to be named after their son.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then the Chancellor looked at their ragged clothes in anger and replied cynically, \u201cDo you know how much such a building costs? The cost of the university\u2019s buildings was over seven and a half million dollars!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The parents fell silent, and the Chancellor seemed pleased, thinking he\u2019d got rid of them.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, the lady said to her husband: \u201cMr. Stanford, if that is all it costs to establish a whole university, why don\u2019t we establish a new university that bears our son\u2019s name?!!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Her husband agreed immediately, and the couple Leland and Jane Stanford left, leaving behind an astonished and regretful Chancellor.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thus, they established the great Stanford University in California, which bears their name, as a memorial to their beloved son, for whom the Harvard University Chancellor didn\u2019t care.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A wise person is just:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The wise man is a just one, he evaluates all matters patiently, and this is the exact path followed by God\u2019s men and the wise judges and rulers who knew justice and acted patiently and wisely in life\u2019s situations, which they experienced.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Prophet Daniel:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scripture presents us with one of the unique models of wisdom: Daniel, the prophet who saved chaste Susannah from death. In Babylon, during the captivity of the Jews, there lived a very rich man named Joachim, who was married to a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susannah.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Joachim had a garden near his house, where the Jews used to meet, among whom were two elderly judges, sought by each and every one who had a lawsuit.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the people left, Susannah used to enter the garden for a walk. When the elders saw her, they fell in love with her. However, they did not tell each other.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One day, they went their separate ways, but both turned back and returned to see her, so they admitted to each other their passion for Susannah, and then they agreed to seek an occasion when they could find her alone.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One day, while they were waiting for the right moment, she entered as usual, with two maids, wanting to bathe in the garden, for the weather was warm, and the two elders were hidden and watching her, then she sent the maids to fetch the items she needed to bathe and to shut the garden.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As soon as the maids had left, the two old men got up and ran to attack her. They threatened her that they would testify falsely against her that she was with a young man, and that was why she sent the maids away. Susannah sighed, not knowing what to do!!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If she sinned, it would be evil before God, if she refused, she would not escape their wickedness and lies, but she chose not to do evil before the Lord.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then Susannah screamed aloud, and the two old men also hollered at her, as one of them ran to open the garden gates. Then the people rushed in to see what had happened.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The elders accused her that she was with a young man who had escaped, therefore they led her to the Assembly, and there their story was believed, since they were elders and judges, thus they condemned her to death. Then she cried out to the Lord and He responded.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As she was being led to execution, God stirred up the spirit of Daniel and he cried aloud that he was innocent of Susannah\u2019s blood. Therefore, the people turned and asked him to explain his words, and he asked them to investigate the issue, then they all hastened and returned to the court.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Daniel told them to separate the two elders from one another, then he asked the first about the tree under which he saw Susannah and the young man. \u201cThe mastic tree\u201d, he answered. After that he left him aside, and went to ask the other one about the tree. \u201cThe oak\u201d, he replied.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then the false testimony of the two elders was revealed and the people rose up against them and condemned them to the fate they had planned for Susannah.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Judge Shurayh:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamic history also presented Shurayh, the wise judge who was renowned for his impeccable sense of justice.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Umayyad prince Musa Ibn Essa, cousin of Emir Al-Mu\u2019minin Al-Mahdy wanted to buy a garden owned by a woman and her siblings; he managed to buy her siblings\u2019 share, as for hers she refused to sell. So he ordered his servants to destroy the wall separating the lands, then the palm trees of both fields mingled together, so the woman submitted a lawsuit to Shurayh the judge, who summoned the prince.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The prince received the summons and sent the chief of police instead of him to the judge so he might pardon him. The chief of police did his best to wriggle out of it, because he knew the judge, but to no use. When he went, the judge imprisoned him.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the prince learned what had happened, he sent his commissionaire \u2013a position equivalent to Chief of the Presidential office \u2013 however he imprisoned him as well. After that, he sent the closest friends of the judge himself, but he imprisoned them, too. When the prince found out, he opened the prison and released them by his authority.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the judge was informed of what the prince had done, he acted wisely. He wrote in his letter of resignation: \u201cI swear to God, we didn\u2019t seek this position, but they forced it upon us, and they guaranteed us dignity if we accepted it.\u201d Then, he decided to depart the city.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the prince learned of this, he followed the judge who insisted that either everybody would return to prison or he would go to Emir Al-Mu\u2019min to seek dismissal from his position, so the prince submitted to the judge and put them back in prison.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then the prince was led to the judicial council, and the woman presented her claim, so all the detained were brought out and the trial began. The prince confessed to what he\u2019d done, therefore the judge\u2019s verdict was that the prince should return to the woman what he\u2019d taken from her and build another wall. The prince agreed and the woman left. After the Assembly ended, the judge seated the prince in his place, so the prince was amazed. Then the judge told him that his job is judicial and at the same time to honor the prince! Thus he was astonished at the wisdom and fairness of the judge.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"color: #80d2f7; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Truly as the Scripture says: \u201cThe mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of justice.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To be continued\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;\">\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0643\u0645\u0629 (8)\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; background-color: #f3f3f3;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dar.akhbarelyom.com\/files\/photos\/akhbarelyom\/07062013101838.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;\">\u062c\u0631\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0645\u00a0\u00a08 \u064a\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0648\u00a0\u00a02013\u0645<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0646\u0628\u0627 \u0625\u0631\u0645\u064a\u0627 &#8211; \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u0642\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0645 \u0648\u0631\u0626\u064a\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u062b\u0642\u0627\u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0628\u0637\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0631\u062b\u0648\u0630\u0643\u0633\u064a<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,51],"tags":[14115],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-32","category-articles","tag-14115"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86516,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/86516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}