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The logical connection between the corruption sense of the word and the other senses is that to demand bribes in one's official capacity is blackmail or racketeering in essence (that is, "you need access to this resource, the government restricts access to it through my office, and I will charge you unfairly and unlawfully for such access"). [5]
The Good Advice (original title: Le bon conseil), by Jean-Baptiste Madou.. Advice (also called exhortation) is a form of relating personal or institutional opinions, belief systems, values, recommendations or guidance about certain situations relayed in some context to another person, group or party.
Ren is the basis of Confucian political theory; the ruler is exhorted to refrain from acting inhumanely towards his subjects. An inhumane ruler runs the risk of losing the Mandate of Heaven or, in other words, the right to rule.
The modern distinction between the two ideas, as generally used in modern scholarship, is explained by Stanley Stowers thus: [2] In this discussion I will use protreptic in reference to hortatory literature that calls the audience to a new and different way of life, and paraenesis for advice and exhortation to continue in a certain way of life.
Smohalla exhorted his followers, eventually numbering about 2,000, to return to the ways of their ancestors and to relinquish the teachings and goods of the intruders. [3] One of the best known of a series of prophets in the area, he revived the Washani Religion and the Washat Dance (religion) traditions while introducing other features from ...
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .
2-4 Muslims exhorted to be faithful and to fight for Islam; 5 This exhortation enforced by the example of Moses; 6 Jesus foretells a Messenger named Ahmad (Prophet Mohamed) 7-8 Jesus was rejected as a sorcerer notwithstanding his miracles; 9 Islam to be exalted above every other religion
The muraqqa’a worn by Sufis were traditionally made out of wool, from which the Sufi derive their name, suf being the Arabic word for wool. [9] However, the jibba worn by the Mahdi's followers were made of a rough cotton called dammur. [10] The production of cotton was carried out almost exclusively by the women of the Mahdiyya. [11]