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Severe punishment in the course of instruction does harm to the student, especially to little children. It makes them lazy and induces them to lie and be insincere. Their outward behavior differs from what they are thinking, because they are afraid that they will have to suffer tyrannical treatment (if they tell the truth). Thus, they are taught deceit and trickery. This becomes their custom and character.

When tax assessments are low, the subjects have the energy and desire to do things. Cultural enterprises grow and increase. Eventually, the taxes will weigh heavily upon the subjects and overburden them. The result is that cultural enterprise disappears, since when they compare taxes with their income and see little profit, they lose all hope. Finally, total tax revenue goes down and the civilization is destroyed.

“There are few religious people in towns and cities, as people there are obdurate and careless, connected with the use of much meat, seasonings, and fine wheat.� Not to mention unlimited sex, which reminds me of "Soumission".

“The 4th generation is inferior to the preceding ones in every respect. They actually despise the qualities that built the edifice of their glory." Is the secular West in its 4th generation?

Ibn Khaldun describes evolution in the 14th Century: "Creation started out from the minerals and progressed, in an ingenious, gradual manner, to plants and animals. The animal world then widens, its species become numerous, and, in a gradual process of creation, it finally leads to man, who is able to think and to reflect. The higher stage of man is reached from the world of the monkeys."

There have been numerous sages among the nations of mankind. The knowledge that has not come down to us is larger than the knowledge that has. Where are the sciences of the Persians that 'Umar ordered wiped out at the time of the conquest! Where are the sciences of the Chaldaeans, the Syrians, and the Babylonians, and the scholarly products and results that were theirs!