RLG350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wisdom Literature, Alawites, Asceticism
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40 hadith of nabawi the number has a deeper significance. # 18 follow up a bad deed with a good deed, and well behave towards other people. Asceticism meaning, you distrain the world, you don"t hold on do it and you give up. Ethos it"s the little details, moral customs, the fundamental character or a spirit of a culture, it"s the little details that make a culture distinctive. You go to a muslim country, there is certain characteristics. Hadith # 34 if you are part of the culture, its part of this notion of enjoying good and forbidding evil. A religious tradition is not all good but it is a sense of righteousness that we are living. We living the good life and we please each other. It"s the other side of communal faith, and social control. You see a horrible act and say that"s terrible, that"s the weakest of faith.
