“I am a person just like you. Who are men
AIDS is one of the most important tragic problems, which arose before all humanity at the end of the 20th century. In order to survive, reduce the risk of contracting and spreading the disease as much as possible more people should know about the development and clinical manifestations of AIDS, its prevention and treatment.
On November 25, in the library - branch No. 2, an “hour of frank conversation” took place between high school students of Municipal Educational Institution Secondary School No. 3 and a methodologist from the Volzhsky Medical Center. prevention Galandarova Svetlana Handarovna. The event was dedicated to World AIDS Day.
Library staff issued book exhibition– warning “All I ask is that you hear me.”
Svetlana Khandarovna answered all the questions the children were interested in, about how the disease manifests itself, how to protect yourself, where you can donate blood, etc.
Figures and facts about the spread of the disease in the Volgograd region and the city of Volzhsky were presented.
At the end of the event, a letter from one of the AIDS patients was read:
"People! I am one of the millions who were told that they were no longer needed here and that death was only a matter of time for them. I am HIV-infected... And having learned about this, many of you will give up on me. But why?! I’m still here, I’m still with you, and who said that I would give up so easily? No! Vice versa! I will fight for every day, hour, every minute of my life. I'm only twenty. Perhaps I have only now begun to understand what life is...
But I want to love, I want a son and a daughter. I want to be loved. And I sincerely believe that all this will happen in my life. But when I meet you, I don’t want to see fear and pity, much less hatred, in your eyes. I have every right to do this, because I am a person just like you...”
December 1 - this day is dedicated to the memory of those who were killed by the 21st century epidemic - AIDS. To support people living with HIV/AIDS, their friends and loved ones, to draw the attention of society and government to the problem - these are the main tasks world day fight against AIDS. Take a closer look at these faces. They are just like us, only they have a very serious problem.
Prophets walked here, whose words burned through hearts like lightning.
Letter to the world from Jerusalem
I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to think.
I am a Jerusalemite, a man of flesh and blood, just like you.
I am a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people.
I want to tell you something to ease your mind. Since I am not a diplomat, I do not need to choose my words. I'm not trying to please you or even convince you of anything. I don't owe you anything. You did not build this city, you did not live in it; you did not protect it when they came to destroy it. And we'll be damned if we let you take it from us.
Jerusalem existed before New York was born.
When Berlin, Moscow, London or Paris were rotten forests and stinking swamps, there was a thriving Jewish community. She gave the world what you peoples have consistently rejected since you organized yourself - a human moral code.
Prophets walked here, whose words burned through hearts like lightning.
Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone fought off the waves of pagans who sought to conquer them; choking in their own blood, the people died in battle, preferring to throw themselves into the flames of their burning Temples rather than surrender; and when he was finally suppressed - simply due to the numerical superiority of the enemy - and was carried away into captivity, the people of this nation swore that before they forgot Jerusalem, their tongue would wither to the larynx and their right hand would wither.
For two millennia filled with pain and suffering while we were yours uninvited guests, we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we asked the Almighty: “Gather us from the four corners of the world, take us straight to our land, return us by Your mercy to Jerusalem, Your city, and live in it as You promised.” Every Day of Judgment and Passover we desperately cry out in hope that next year will find us already in Jerusalem.
Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which you drove us, your forced baptisms, your systems of percentage standards, your well-mannered anti-Semitism and, finally, the unspeakable horror of the Holocaust (and even worse - your appalling indifference to it) - all this does not concern us. broke. It might have drained you of whatever moral strength you still possessed, but it only strengthened us.
Do you think you can break us now, after everything we've been through?
Do you really believe that after Dachau and Auschwitz we will be afraid of your threats of blockade and sanctions?
We have been to the hell you created and back. What else can you get from your arsenal that could frighten us?
I saw twice how this city was bombed by countries that call themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on with indifference, I saw women and children torn to pieces - after we granted your request to turn this city into an international one. It was a deadly combination: British officers, Arab skirmishers and American-made guns. And then the wild plunder of the Old City, the malicious massacre, the wholesale destruction of all synagogues and religious schools; desecration of Jewish cemeteries; sellout by nefarious government gravestones for building chicken coops, army camps - and even toilets.
And you never said a word.
You never even breathed a single breath of protest when the Jordanians closed access to the holiest of our holy sites, the Western Wall, in violation of all the promises they made after the war - a war they started, by the way, against a decision made at the UN .
Not a sound or mutter was heard from your side as the pointed-helmeted legionaries casually opened fire on our citizens from behind these walls.
Your hearts bled when Berlin was under siege. You urgently sent your planes to “save the brave Berliners.” But you did not send a single gram of food when the Jews were starving in besieged Jerusalem.
You thundered and lightened about the wall that the East Germans built through the center of the German capital - but you didn’t even make a word about the other wall, the one that cut through the heart of Jerusalem.
And when the same thing happened again 20 years later, when the Arabs again began a wild, unprovoked bombing of the Holy City, did any of you do anything?
The only time you suddenly came to life was when the city was finally reunited. Here you began to wring your hands and utter lofty words about “justice” and the need for us to turn the other cheek in a Christian way.
In truth - and you know it deep down - you would rather have this city destroyed than have Jews rule it. No matter how diplomatically you express it, centuries-old prejudices ooze from your every word.
If our return to this city has tied your theology in knots, obviously you should reconsider your Catechism. After everything we've been through, we're not going to passively conform to the twisted idea that we're destined to suffer forever from homelessness until we accept your savior.
For the first time since 70 AD. There is complete freedom of religion throughout Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans burned our Temple, everyone has equal rights. (You would, however, prefer to be more equal than others). We hate the sword - but it was you who forced us to pick it up.
We strive for peace - but we will not return to the peace of 1948, as you would like.
We're at home. This sounds amazing for the kind of people you would want to see roaming the planet. But we won't leave. We are fulfilling the oath given by our ancestors: Jerusalem is being rebuilt. "Next year," and the next after that, and the next, and the next, and the next - until the end of time - "in Jerusalem!"
Eliezer Ben Israel, Jerusalem
Translation from English
Eleonora Shifrin
A few words about the author
This letter (which later, for unknown reasons, began to circulate as authored by Eliezer Vartman) was written and first published under the pseudonym Eliezer Ben-Israel in the summer of 1969 as an editorial in the first issue of The Times of Israel, which was founded and edited by an immigrant from South Africa Stanley Goldfoot. It was he who was the author of the letter, which caused many responses and became a kind of sensation.
The newspaper has been gone for a long time, as it has been gone for four years; its founder, Stanley, passed away at the age of 92 on November 24, 2006. However, his letter continues to evoke the same strong emotions and the same contradictory responses from people different directions, as then - two years after the Six-Day War.
Options Listen to Original Original text قُلْ إِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُوحَى إِلَيَّ أَنَّمَا إِلَهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ فَمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا وَلَا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ أَحَدًا Translit Qul "Inn amā "Anā Ba sh arun Mi th lukum Yūĥá "Ilayya "Ann amā "Ilahukum "Ilahun Wāĥidun ۖ Faman Kā na Yarjū Liqā "a Rabbihi Falya`mal `Amalāan Şāliĥāan Wa Lā Yu sh r ik Bi`ibādati Rabbihi "Aĥadāan Say: “Verily, I am a man like you. I have been given the revelation that your God is the One God. He who hopes to meet his Lord, let him do righteous deeds and does not worship anyone along with his Lord." Say (O Messenger) (to these polytheists): “After all, I am just a man like you; and is instilled in me (revelation from my Lord) that your God is the only God. And whoever hopes to meet his Lord (on the Day of Judgment) [fears His punishment and hopes for His reward], let him do a righteous deed (according to His decree) and (let) not associate anyone with the worship of his Lord [let him devote the works of worship to Allah alone].” Say: “Verily, I am a man like you. I have been given the revelation that your God is the One and Only God. He who hopes to meet his Lord should perform righteous deeds and not worship anyone along with his Lord.” [[O Muhammad! Tell the infidels and all other people that you are only human. You are not a god and you do not share power over the Universe with Allah. You do not know what is hidden and do not manage the treasures of Allah. You are just one of the servants of your Lord who has received revelation. Allah honored you with his revelation and thereby elevated you above other people. And the most important knowledge that people can learn from this revelation is monotheism. There is only one God, Who has no companions, and all other beings do not deserve worship and deification even the weight of one speck of dust. Therefore, encourage people to work in order to draw closer to God, earn His reward and protect themselves from His retribution. Moreover, the actions of people must be righteous, and for this, people must fulfill the obligatory and desirable instructions of religion in strict accordance with the Sharia of Allah. And they should do them not for show, but sincerely for the sake of Allah Almighty. Only when a person performs good deeds sincerely for the sake of Allah and in strict accordance with Sharia, will he be able to achieve his cherished goal. As for all other people, they will suffer great loss both during life on earth and after death. They will not be able to approach the Almighty Patron and will not be able to gain His favor.]] Ibn Kathir
Allah says to His Messenger: ( قُلْ ) “Say” to these polytheists who deny your message to them; ( إِنَّمَآ أَنَاْ بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ ) “I am a man like you” - and whoever considers me a liar, let him bring something similar to what I came to you with. After all, I do not know the hidden things that I told you from the past, about which you asked me, for example, the story about the inhabitants of the cave, about Dhul-Qarnain, and others similar stories, which are true. I did not know any of this that Allah told me. And I tell you: ( إِنَّمَآ إِلَـهُكُمُ ) “That God is yours” - to which I call you to worship; ( إِلَـهٌ وَحِدٌ ) “There is only one God” - He has no partner.
(فَمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَآءَ رَبِّهِ ) “And who hopes to meet his Lord” – i.e. for His good reward and reward; (فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلاً صَـلِحاً ) “Let him do good deeds” – i.e. in accordance with His Sharia/Law; ( وَلاَ يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ أَحَدَا ) “And in worshiping his Lord he does not join anyone to Him” - this is how you can achieve the Face of the One Allah - He has no partner. And these are the main two conditions for accepting actions: Perform actions only for the sake of Allah, and only what corresponds to the Sharia of the Messenger of Allah (May Allah bless him and grant him peace).
Al-A'mash said from the words of Shahr ibn Hawshab: “A certain man came to `Ubad ibn As-Samit and said: “Answer me what I ask you about. What do you think about a person who prays, striving for the face of Allah, but loves to be praised, gives alms, striving for the face of Allah, but loves to be praised, performs Hajj, striving for the face of Allah, but loves to be praised ? `Ubada replied: “There will be nothing for him (from reward), since Allah Almighty says: “I am the best partner, and if some other partner has a share in affairs, then let it all be for his sake, I have no need for such an act.”
Imam Ahmad reported (5/428) from Mahmud ibn Labid that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Indeed, my greatest fear is that you will commit minor shirk." . They asked, “What is small shirk, O Messenger of Allah?” He said: “Here we go.” اسَ بِأَعْمَالِهِمْ : All rights reserved. "Show off." On the Day of Judgment, when people will be rewarded for their deeds, Allah will say: “Come to those to whom you performed your deeds in earthly life, and seek from them a reward (for your deeds). Will you find it with them?!”
