Socio-economics on Superphysics

The Real Meaning Of Sustenance And Profit

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Profit is the value realized from human labor.

Man, by nature, needs something to feed him and to provide for him in all the conditions and stages of his life from the time of his (early) growth to his maturity and on to his old age.

The Ways Of Making A Living

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Livelihood (ma’ash) means the desire for sustenance and the effort to obtain it. It is a maf’al formation from ‘aysh’ or ’life’.

The idea is that ‘aysh “life” is obtained only by making a living. It is called “the place of life”.

The 4 Kinds of Servants

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Being a servant is not a natural way of making a living

The ruler must use the services of men, such as soldiers, policemen, and secretaries., in all the departments of political power (imarah).

Treasure Hunting is not a natural way of making a living

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Many weak-minded persons in cities hope to discover hidden treasure and profit from it.

Ranks are useful in securing property

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The person of rank who is highly esteemed is materially wealthier than a person who has no rank.

This is because the person of rank is served by the labor of others.
- They try to approach him with their labor, since they need his protection.
- People help him with their labor in all his needs

The value from all such labor becomes part of his profit.

Persons dealing with religious matters are not very wealthy

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Examples are judges, muftis, teachers, prayer leaders, preachers, muezzins.

This is because profit is the value realized from labor. This value differs according to the need for labor.

Certain types of labor may be necessary. Their value is greater. The need for them more urgent.

The Kinds Of Commerce

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Commerce is the attempt to make a profit by increasing capital through buying goods at a low price and selling them at a high price, whether these goods consist of slaves, grain, animals, weapons, or clothing material.

The Character Of Merchants Are Inferior

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A merchant concerns himself with buying and selling, earning money and making a profit.

This requires cunning, willingness to enter into disputes, cleverness, constant quarreling, and great persistence.

They are qualities destructive of virtuousness and manliness.

The Crafts Are Perfected Only In A Large And Perfect Sedentary Civilization

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People are concerned only with the necessities such as obtaining of food as long as:

sedentary civilization is incomplete and
the city not fully organized

When the city is organized, the available labor increases.

The Arabs, of all people, are least familiar with crafts

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This is because Arabs are more firmly rooted in desert life and more remote from sedentary civilization, the crafts, and the other things which sedentary civilization calls for, (than anybody else).

Architecture

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This is the first and oldest craft of sedentary civilization. It is the knowledge of how to go about using houses and mansions for cover and shelter. This is because man has the natural disposition to reflect upon the outcome of things.

Carpentry

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This is necessary to civilization. Its material is wood.

This is as follows: God made all created things useful for man, so as to supply his necessities and needs. Trees belong among these things. They have innumerable uses known to everybody.

Midwifery

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Midwifery is a craft that shows how to proceed in bringing the new-born child gently out of the womb of his mother and how to prepare the things that go with that.

Medicine

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The craft of medicine is needed in settled areas and cities but not in the desert.

It preserves health and repels illness with the help of medical treatment, until they are cured of their illnesses.

Calligraphy

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Writing is the outlining and shaping of letters to indicate audible words which, in turn, indicate what is in the soul. It comes second after oral expression.

It is a noble craft, since it is one of the special qualities of man by which he distinguishes himself from the animals. Furthermore, it reveals what is in (people’s minds.

Ibn al-Bawwab

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Professor Abu 1-Hasan Ali b. Hilal al-Katib alBaghdadi, who is known as Ibn al-Bawwab wrote a poem in the basit meter with the rhyme on r, in which he mentions the craft of writing and the matters with which it has to do.

Book production

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In the past, people were concerned with scholarly writings and official records.

These were copied, bound, and corrected with the help of a transmission technique and with accuracy.

This is because the ruling dynasty was important, along with the things that depend on sedentary culture.

Singing and Music

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This sets poems to music by scanning the sounds according to well-known fixed proportions, which causes any sound (complex) thus scanned to constitute a tune, a rhythmic mode.

These modes are then combined with each other according to accepted proportions. The result is pleasant to listen to because of its harmony and the quality (that harmony) gives to the sounds. This is as follows= As explained in the science of music, sounds are in certain proportions (intervals) to each other. A sound may be 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, or 1/11 of another sound. The difference in interval between the sounds that reach the ear transforms them from simple (sounds) to combinations of (sounds).