Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

الفقير الذي لا يحمل شهرة بيل جيتس و لا أوراق بنيامين فرانكلين المزركشة ولا حفنة ملوك أوروبا من الذهب المكدس، يعيش في سلام داخلي و يموت في سلام مع الناس.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as master and slave, reduplicating the most brutal aspects of the ancient household in our very concept of ourselves, as masters of our freedoms, or as owners of our very selves. It is the only way that we can imagine ourselves as completely isolated beings. There is a direct line from the new Roman conception of liberty – not as the ability to form mutual relationships with others, but as the kind of absolute power of "use and abuse" over the conquered chattel who make up the bulk of a wealthy Roman man's household – to the strange fantasies of liberal philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Smith, about the origins of human society in some collection of thirty- or forty-year-old males who seem to have sprung from the earth fully formed, then have to decide whether to kill each other or begin to swap beaver pelts.

بعد موت النبي آدم تفرق أبناءه لشعوب كثيرة، وانحرفت عن المنهج السماوي الذي وضعه الله لها، إما بالعصيان وأن النسيان، وبالتالي أرسل الله لهم من يعد البشرية الي مسارها الصحيح، وكان الحدث بنبوة ادريس، فقد هاجر من العراق الي مصر واتخذها حصناً له ولدعوته فبنى المدن وكرس حياته لنشر العلوم، فهنا لوتحدثنا عن منهجه في الحرب، والعلم بها وتجهيز الناس لها من مأكل مشرب، فهنا استوجب أن يتبع منهج أو يتخذ من الهدى الالهي البداية في فكر اقتصادي أو تطويع أوامر الله لهذا الامر.
فنبوة ادريس هو تصويب لحياة الانسان وترشيد لموارده وتحييد سلوكه من المفرط المسرف إلي المرشّد المقتصد كما جاء في قوله تعالى "ومنهم مقتصد".