Great men are not only praised on account of highness of...

Great men are not only praised on account of highness of position or by their extraordinary power, but under the title of greatness they have to hold some attainments and show manly behaviors that are the essential conditions of greatness.

Undoubtedly courage and moral heroism are the best qualities, not only that kind of courage, which someone runs to risk carelessly, but what is acceptable is the bravery of some great leaders, who stand against the heart's desires of the close friends and are patient of unbearable oppositions of the kinsmen or the internal enemies.

In some particular cases, it happens that a man of lacking necessary morals shows an unexpected courage, but to our understanding it cannot be called real courage because this kind of courage is neither true nor dependable. Certainly courage is an admirable quality in itself but it is not separated from the other attributes. It is linked with the other high qualities like honesty, chastity, truthfulness, abiding by one's word, steadfastness and generosity.

It is an undeniable fact that people usually prefer morality to vastness of knowledge because so many big cities were destroyed by the command of educated generals (educated in the European universities) especially during the Second World War. When we inquire into the biographies of some great men and leaders we come across much sincerity, self- sacrifice and purity that will be pleasing to us.

It can safely be said that the continuance and duration of the world is indebted to the devotion of Socrates, the philosopher of ancient Greece, who drank water of hemlock to show his astray fellow-citizens the unreliability of the material things and to prove the eternity of the soul forever. Jesus Christ used to have a piece of dried bread and to rest on the floor to keep him-self pure from implications of the world and also to show the Jews the instability of luxuries.

Many people, trying to achieve their goals, are concerned with materiality and unessential things. They usually plan to earn money as much as possible. They often are intolerant of justice and they try to rob people of their rights, in spite of the fact that the material things are destructible and unreliable. Now all crimes and murders, which occur frequently all over the world, are arisen from Mammonism and unlawful abuses.