This quote is parable of bad attitude people. The four birds here are duck, cock, peacock and crow. Those animal are not totally bad at all but rumi as writer of this book took the similarities of animal behaviour and bad characteristic of people. Our God has mentioned about bad characteristic that people have to avoid it in Holy book Al Qur’an. Those bad characteristic will damage a faith and the end will be broke itself and people life. Currrently, the life is full of busle, will and lust, those things are used to get happiness of life. This condition makes people forgetting about th meaning of life. As we know that the purpose of the life to worship to Allah. Bad characterisiic will make people far away from God.
Human beings have 2 side desire in their attention, one side tend to do good deeds and bad deeds. Doing band deeds is esier than doing good deeds. As entioned in Al Qur’an As Syam verse 8-10, a power to do good deeds will create good attitude because it is influenced by sould and pure intention while encouraging to do bad deeds is command of evil. From these two side, people will know what are the more dominant in the cahracteristic for every each person. If the lust is more dominant, the people will destroy in the world. And if the soul of religion is more dominant, it will create a value of right people or good deeds.
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The bad behaviour of the duck is greedy because if the owner of that duck feeds leftovers of meals, the duck will eat it. Nevertheless, if owner feeds the duck again, surely the food will be run out wihout anything left. It shows that the duck is a symbol of greed. As human being, this characteristic has be avoided by all of
Behind every religion there is a story. These stories open the eyes of their listeners to form them into better people, usually promising them afterlife. No matter the time period or culture, these lessons all have something in common: people should be good. Stories such as “Epic of Gilgamesh”, “Genesis”, “Mandate of Heaven”, “The Justice of God”, and “Siddhartha’s Enlightenment” are from different religions yet they share a common theme.
To many individuals, morality and religion are two related but distinct ideas. To be specific, morality consists of principles set by societal norms concerning the distinction between right and wrong and good and bad behaviour among persons. Alternatively, religion involves the relationship between human beings and a transcendent reality or a superhuman controlling power, God. In many societies in the past and present, the idea of God is used to help reinforce moral codes as valuable and vital through rituals and methods of presenting the teachings of God. By many, religion is used to instil fear
In most of the countries, there will always be two types of people: people with power, which are people that have more hierarchy than others and that will tend to have some type of power so they can make others do what they want in order to please them; and people that will do anything in order to obey the orders of those with power. When someone has some or a lot of power, eventually, they will only care for their power to increase; it is not a matter of culture, religion, ethnicity or any other aspect that some individuals may have. A few examples of this could be whenever someone obeys another person because they are eternally grateful to them, or just because they have some type of respect towards that person, finally it could be just to
Another thing that makes people to easily choose doing evil and leave good is desire. Sometimes people may go for evil than good in order to fulfill their desires. This term ‘desire’ is used to explain what one wishes to be or to do. Human beings find it easier to do evil than good in order to satisfy their wishes. Every man or woman desires to live in his or her own particular way of living and does everything in order to achieve his or her wishes. For example, two kinds of people in the society, that is to say, the prominent figures in the society as well as the ordinary or the poor people may choose the evil ways to fulfill their desires. People may use corruption to achieve whatever they plan to do. In this case for example, world activities provide setting in which one is required to exhibit moral goodness but the actual content of these activities have no intrinsic value. Some scholars indicate that, the fulfillment of one’s duty may have beneficial consequences for one self and others
The concept of good and evil is relevant in all religions and is what keeps people under control. Religion is a way to discipline people and set out rules of behavior. We see this in the Bhagavad-Gita and The Heart of Understanding when they describe how to gain enlightenment. Both of the texts have the concept of karma, where your past actions affect your present and future lives.
In the folk tale " Gombei and the Wild Ducks," the main character Gombei, learns a lesson about greed and how you should treat others. In the beginning of the story, Gombei's father told him to treat the ducks with respect. The author wrote, " It would be too cruel to trap more than one duck each day." As Gombei ages he becomes a greedy and lazy man. In lines 20 and 21, it said: " I could loaf for ninety-nine days without working at all." His greed causes him to try to trap more birds than he can handle. He tries to catch one hundred birds. In the end, Gombei gets caught and starts wailing" I am a wicked greedy man." Gombei then decides he will never trap another living thing and becomes a farmer. Gombei learns a very valuable lesson in this
Good people do bad things. Doing a bad thing does not make someone a monster. For example, if a young boy was raised in the ghetto where he and his family never had enough to eat he might have to steal to get for his family. Even though he has done something illegal and immoral that does not make him a bad person. He was just doing what he had to do to get his family food to eat. Even if he kills someone in the process of sealing the food it does not make him a monster. This kid just made a bad choice in an awful situation but he made the choice for the right reason, to feed his family. Victor Frankenstein’s creation, the “monster”, was not all bad. The made some bad choices because of how he was created and how he was treated by Victor after he was created.
A quote from Mahatma Gandhi is, “There is sufficiency in the world for a man’s need, but not for a man’s greed.” . An analysis of when characters are greedy and have consequences are in the stories,”Head Tree” and“The Mermaid. and the Woodcutter”. One example of greediness and its consequences is in the story, “The Head Tree.” In the short story, a man has a head growing out of his head.
Good vs. Evil is often seen by many people as the foundation to many conflicts. Many also often assume that one side of a conflict is right and good, and the other wrong and evil. Good and evil go hand in hand. Depending on the environment, good people can get caught up in some very bad things. Good people do bad things because of desperation, religion, and peer pressure.
The question on nature of human beings has been raised based on these religions. The nature of humanity has been proclaimed either as good or evil one. Human beings are known to distinguish between what is good and discard what is bad. Such knowledge constitutes morality in humanity, which authorizes the limit of interactions as well as relations with other human beings. However, human being depending on the nature and degree of understanding of their self, are limited to understanding what is right and discarding the wrong one. Moreover, they must be guided in understanding what is right and shun the evil away. As acknowledged by Confucius, human beings especially the males have a certain
There are different types of people in the world, as they all have different behavior, personality, and culture. Everyone has a different view of what makes good people do bad things. It is amazing how such calm and nice people turn into such a bad people. There must be a psychology reason in order for them to turn like this. There are some factors I would like to know and also discuss of why people behave this way. Therefore, a person with different behavior makes them act different and hence, that impacts on a person’s personality which makes them turn from good person to bad person.
Religion also claims to provide a solution for whether human nature is initially good or evil but this of course varies upon the religion. According to Catholicism everyone who has been born is tainted with original sin which according to the bible is an inclination to evil caused
Whether or not humans are essentially evil or sympathetic is a question that has long left many philosophers in a state of conflict. Through the evaluation of natural human qualities, many different opinions have been formed. The so called “laws” of the world attempt to define a set of uncertain rules which are to govern society in its most raw form, dictate moral rights and wrongs, and create boundaries. Every single action can be separated into any of these three categories, depending upon the action. The Bible states that it is only through baptism that a sin may be removed from the carrier. Non-religious opinions may offer a similar opinion in a sense that humans possess the capability of committing evil acts. Human beings are in
Why do good people do bad things? It’s a question repeatedly asked throughout the decades and with recent studies,it seems people in groups are more deadly than others. In this essay,I will be giving my take on why I think good people in groups do bad things. Starting as early as March 15,44 B.C.,Gaius Julius Caesar was murdered by a group of rebellious senators. He started out as a Roman politician and general who played a huge role in the demise of the Roman republic and the rise of the Roman empire.
Religion has been a powerful force in human history. Mankind has longed and searched for the answers to its purpose, the reason for being and the possibility of life after physical death. They reasoned that an afterlife would be a place of accounting and reckoning for the life they lived on earth. Religious belief systems seemed to give the answers as to how to prepare for the afterlife. Religion became the means of giving answers to those basic yet deep-seated questions of both life and death. Religion provided a format of rules and laws for conduct and treatment toward others based on the desires and wishes of a god or gods that people envisioned, imagined or invented. Religious belief systems have been a powerful force for good and bad...good in the sense that it provided a measure of individual behavior and order in society for the wellbeing of the whole, but bad in the sense that men of ambition who craved power and control over others would often use religion as a tool of manipulation and fear. A casual glance of history tells us that complete civilizations have been built, grown and maintained around elaborate religious systems, ancient Egypt being a prime example.