More Fish Please!
Not too long ago, the United Nations World Health Organisation said: 'Globally, there is enough food to feed the world. But to our shame we live in a world where food rots and people starve.' Sh. Abu Aaliyah reminds us here about the prophetic remedy for this grotesque greed and consumption: zuhd - "worldly detachment." Wealth, says our received wisdom, 'is to be seen like the toilet: in that we have need for it, use it whenever necessary, but it has no place in our hearts.' Our story begins with a simple Mexican fisherman and a sophisticated Harvard business graduate.
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“Manners maketh man,” said the fourteenth century William of Wykeham. This wisdom was adopted as the motto for Winchester College, Oxford, reflecting the ethos envisioned for its pupils. For six centuries it has stood as a reminder that a person’s true worth is to be assesed by their ethical existence and moral achievements. Currently, argues Sh. Abu Aaliyah, it isn't the economy that is causing our society to come apart at the seems, but our behaviour. If we do not recover our moral ecology soon, the already thinning glue that now tentatively holds our society intact runs the risk of dissolving altogether.
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