Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar
by Jugurtha on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:30PM
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Newspapers in Arabic are talking about economic reasons and implications. About $4 billion saved for the Kingdom and employees losing the equivalent of half a month of salary annually.
Some sources talk about the birth of the Hijri calendar (Abu Musa, a Government official, complaining to Omar, the Caliph, that they receive instructions dated by month and they don't know if it's this year's or last year's. This prompted the Caliph to introduce the calendar retroactively at 17 Hijri, or 638 AD).
As for the slippery slope.. It's roughly طريق الهاوية. Which means "the road to the fall/cliff" (it's more scary in Arabic. It makes me think of "Rebel without a Cause" "Chicken Game" scene).
>And what is the technical term in Arabic they used that translates to "slippery slope?"
I think the closest I can do is that the logic of a slippery slope according to clerics comes from this:
شر الامور محدثاتها، و كل محدثة بدعة، و كل بدعة ضلالة، و كل ضلالة في النار.
The evilest of things are X, and each X is Y, and each Y is Z, and each Z is in Hell.
X: according to clerics, is heresy, something different and new from what the Prophet did to get closer to God (this is important, I'll explain why later).
Y: fad/heresy..
Z: misguidance
So "the evilest of things are heresies, and each heresy is a fad, and each fad is a misguidance, and each misguidance is in Hell".
Why is the definition of heresy important? Because clerics define it as innovation in the way of worship while radicals define it as innovation itself (arbitrarily decided to suit whatever logic they have. Example: using a toothbrush is heresy, but rolling in an SUV is not)...
Some sources talk about the birth of the Hijri calendar (Abu Musa, a Government official, complaining to Omar, the Caliph, that they receive instructions dated by month and they don't know if it's this year's or last year's. This prompted the Caliph to introduce the calendar retroactively at 17 Hijri, or 638 AD).
As for the slippery slope.. It's roughly طريق الهاوية. Which means "the road to the fall/cliff" (it's more scary in Arabic. It makes me think of "Rebel without a Cause" "Chicken Game" scene).
>And what is the technical term in Arabic they used that translates to "slippery slope?"
I think the closest I can do is that the logic of a slippery slope according to clerics comes from this:
شر الامور محدثاتها، و كل محدثة بدعة، و كل بدعة ضلالة، و كل ضلالة في النار.
The evilest of things are X, and each X is Y, and each Y is Z, and each Z is in Hell.
X: according to clerics, is heresy, something different and new from what the Prophet did to get closer to God (this is important, I'll explain why later).
Y: fad/heresy..
Z: misguidance
So "the evilest of things are heresies, and each heresy is a fad, and each fad is a misguidance, and each misguidance is in Hell".
Why is the definition of heresy important? Because clerics define it as innovation in the way of worship while radicals define it as innovation itself (arbitrarily decided to suit whatever logic they have. Example: using a toothbrush is heresy, but rolling in an SUV is not)...