2017-01-23T09:39:00-08:00
You might be thinking without language ?
After an Irish linguist studied the language of a primitive tribe in the Amazon, this scientist was able to reach a scientific explanation for the reasons behind its very slow development characteristic, and why the number five is the highest number found in their language. He concluded that the reasons for this are due to the language of the tribe, which It contains only two tenses, the past and the present, and there is no formula for the future tense in its language. This has been reflected in their lives and there is no longer even a need to reach for many numbers in their language, as they only need small numbers that meet the needs of the present only.
Language is the basis of thinking, and knowledge requires a carrier for it, and this carrier is language. This is what scholars are currently saying, and many scholars explain many of the phenomena of people’s thinking through the characteristics of their languages. Language and its relationship to thinking can be described in computer languages and their programs, and how certain programs are only written in certain languages due to their strength and contain functions that can deal with minute details in the computer, and it is difficult for other computer languages to solve problems due to their weakness with the same efficiency as other strong languages. .
Arabic language
Adonis talks about one of the problems of thinking among the Arabs, and says that the Arab views language as an independent fact that can be invoked, while language is basically arbitrary. A German thinker would agree with this, and he talks in a writing about why Muslims lagged behind civilization, and he reviews in a writing three Basic problems, the first of which is the sacred language.
This poses two questions for us
The first question is what is the reason behind this problem?
The Muslim views language as if it is an eternal state, and cannot imagine a universe that began except through an Arabic language, and sees the language as if it fell from the sky and is not a human product, as it is the language of Allah, angels, the universe, stones, trees, etc., meaning that the Arabic language exists outside of man. The Muslim is the one who learned it, perhaps because it is the language of their Bible. I think it is important to include this matter in the process of updating educational curricula in the future.
Pagan peoples and language
The second question: Why is it a problem?
Words and thoughts play a magical role in the lives of pagan peoples. Pronunciation of a word becomes equivalent to the actual presence of a thing. Pronunciation of a word means conjuring up a thing and embodying it physically. Even thinking about a thing or desiring it means it occurs identically.
For example… among pagan peoples, the name is an essential component of the thing or personality. Knowing the name of the being (person or thing) means granting the person great power towards the being. All and there, confusion occurs between magical reality and natural reality. Ideas are replaced by nature. There is a transition from controlling ideas or names to controlling things. Thinking turns into wild desires (wishes) and natural reality becomes a magical reality controlling the mind. And it’s hard to get out of it.
The ancient Egyptian civilization provides us with an example of the magical role of words and thoughts among pagan peoples. In one era, the kings of ancient Misr used to engrave the names of peoples hostile to them, the names of their rulers, and the names of rebels and dissenters from the ruler on large pottery vessels. This was Pots are smashed in a religious ceremony. The main purpose of this ritual was to call for the death of those enemies and those who escaped the king’s grip, but it was not only a symbolic ritual, but rather a firm belief that they will harm the enemies and that the enemies will truly die after their names engraved on the pottery vessels are destroyed.
Yemen is an example of this
The previous example is from ancient Misr, although it seems to many to be sarcastic and strange, but the truth is that this ritual is practiced quite often in the lives of the peoples of the region and in their thinking, and I will review Yemen as an example of the practice of this ritual in the life and thinking of the Yemeni person, and Even when he is under the bombardment and siege imposed on him, he practices this ritual with great intensity.
– The Yemeni is afraid to mention his mother’s name. Some fear that the name will be used in magic work by charlatans, and some feel shameful because mentioning the name means conjuring up his mother, sister, or wife, and Imamah is embodied at the moment the name is mentioned.
– If a Yemeni sees his name on the ground or on a paper thrown on the ground, he erases the name, picks up the paper and burns it or tears it, because the name in its true form is embodied for him and thrown on the ground and he fears for his body.
– When a Yemeni tells a story to someone and mentions words in the story such as (pigeons or shoes), he follows the mention of the word with the phrase (May Allah bless you), as if he is conjuring up those things when he says them in front of the person, and apologizes to him for having them in front of him.
– When a Yemeni tells him an ugly example while he is present, he will tell you not to use the example of anyone else, because he believes that when a language is spoken, it means that it occurs identically.
When a Yemeni sees a dream in a dream, and when a person inquires about the interpretation of the dream, the first person to interpret it is the correct interpretation and believes in it that it will be a reality.
– A Yemeni says that he is confused, as he is against interference in his homeland, but he fears for Dinah, regardless of the illogical connection, but his fear for Dinah comes from his embodiment of religion in a material form. He is afraid of it being destroyed or broken. For him, religion is not an abstract concept, but a reality. A physical incarnation that fears him.
A Yemeni says that he fears for the holy 26th of September. He conjures that day as an embodied reality, and fears for that physical entity from breaking or shattering.
– A Yemeni says angrily that a city has been invaded by armed militias. He conjures the entire city in the form of a physical entity and depicts the militias as if they were another physical entity that violates and usurps it.
There are many examples in explaining this thinking among pagan peoples. All you have to do is observe and you will discover a huge number of them to know how the natural reality becomes a magical reality in our imagination.
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