How we do we declare war on our ego? Once you have a Sheykh, you declare war on your ego. The first step is to declare war on our ego. The ego is what? not outside, it is inside. Look to see, what are we being busy with? Keep your enemies closer. If there is an open enemy, then there is an enemy that is hidden, that is close. Muslims are not talking about sheytan too much. Of course these days nobody talks about sheytan. How many times Allah SWT is saying in the Quran e-Kerim, Be careful from sheytan because he is an open enemy. So everything that is in dunya now, to look with the eyes of what? With the eyes of faith now, it’s our enemy. ![]() So people who are not asking, then it’s very difficult for them to think properly and to understand where we are living and how to protect ourselves. Correct? So who is going to say what it is? I say what happens to the Creator of happiness? What happen to Him? You’ve finished that? You didn’t finish that. So everyone has a different way of happiness. If you make a good person to become a tyrant, he is going to be unhappy. ![]() This one, being good makes him happy, this one being a tyrant makes him happy. I said, what’s after happiness? ‘Happiness.’ So, happiness is it? How do you understand to be happiness? Everyone has different ways of being happy. I say, what’s after happiness? He couldn’t answer. Long time ago, I was talking to this person, he’s a Bahai, talking, talking, talking, and he says the whole point is happiness. But everything that is glittering, everything that is going to make you, even happiness. Those ones who are awake, because this world is not our home. They say, ‘keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.’ That is for who? That is for who? That is for people who are not in heedlessness, who knows that their existence here, it is they are being surrounded by enemies. Destur Medet Ya SahibulSaif Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Kibrisi el-Rabbani Hz. If you have an International Relations or Political Theory student or professor nearby, ask them how you could go about getting an unabridged edition of "The Prince", it's much more complete (and complicated) than what usually is sold around.Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Andweighing well the reasons for this in those examples which can betaken from ancient and modern affairs, we shall find that it is easierfor the prince to make friends of those men who were contented underthe former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of thosewho, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouragedhim to seize it.The problem is that most translations and editions of "The Prince" are heavily cut and paraphrase all over the place. And sincethe matter demands it, I must not fail to warn a prince, who by meansof secret favours has acquired a new state, that he must well considerthe reasons which induced those to favour him who did so and if it benot a natural affection towards him, but only discontent with theirgovernment, then he will only keep them friendly with great troubleand difficulty, for it will be impossible to satisfy them. ![]() But on this question one cannotspeak generally, for it varies so much with the individual I willonly say this, that those men who at the commencement of a princedomhave been hostile, if they are of a description to need assistance tosupport themselves, can always be gained over with the greatest ease,and they will be tightly held to serve the prince with fidelity,inasmuch as they know it to be very necessary for them to cancel bydeeds the bad impression which he had formed of them and thus theprince always extracts more profit from them than from those who,serving him in too much security, may neglect his affairs. ![]() Princes, especially new ones, have found more fidelity andassistance in those men who in the beginning of their rule weredistrusted than among those who in the beginning were trusted.Pandolfo Petrucci, Prince of Siena, ruled his state more by those whohad been distrusted than by others. The direct translation would yield a line like:quote:The new Prince must strive to hold close his allies, but it is of more importance to hold close his enemies.Here's how the Gutenberg edition translated (and cut heavily) that section:quote:5. It's from The Prince, no doubt about it.It's not a direct quote from the english translation though, it's a paraphrase of a translation of a direct quote from the original.
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