HOW RIGHT IS IT TO POINT OUT THE MISTAKES OF THE GREAT?

In this age that is being called new, an opium named freedom of speech has been given to societies to drink. By that freedom, everyone has acquired the ill manners of saying whatever comes to his mouth.

The new face of despotism has taken on the appearance of freedom of speech. The aim of the baseless rule “Let everyone say what his ego commands, this is the foundation of justice!” was very frightening. That is, this rule was made into a tool for seizing free lands by turning the peoples there against their own states. First, people were made to believe that their freedom was being strangled. Then kings were presented as tyrants. The opium of free speech was fed to them. And the intoxicated mob raised an axe against the shelter that stood above it.

We have received the command: “If you speak, speak good. Otherwise, keep silent!”

Today, telling the great their mistakes is being established as courage. There are several subtle points here: 1. How much right do you have to lash out at a great person? Doing so is overstepping your bounds. 2. In the presence of the great, silence and service are the business of the young. 3. Your knowledge, experience and insight are still too weak to grasp the wisdom of what the great are doing. When you rise to their seat, you will understand it all. Until then, be patient. With patience you lose nothing.

Who are the great? First of all, the people of noble descent, that is, sayyids of noble lineage, scholars, emirs, heads of affairs, leaders; teachers, fathers, elder brothers. One must take advice from them, value them, and obey them. If a fault occurs, one must pray for their reform and wait. So that the veil is not lifted. So that good manners and modesty are not harmed.

If the small do not know their smallness and the great forget their greatness, heads become feet and feet become heads, the tracks of horse and dog get mixed, and order is lost. The people of knowledge and wisdom go down to the threshold, while the people of ignorance and baseness rise to the seat of honor – justice vanishes and tyranny prevails.