If we don't waste our time watching TV or self-indulge in empty recreations, we would certainly become knowlegeable. The media tends to bypass what is useful and beneficial to us and to the development of our children. But since many people are morally corrupt by the fruitless information and knowledge, and by the tendency to stick their noses into non of there concern, as well as wasting time they loose guidance. That's why they don't find the time to seek true knowledge and enlightenment.
The well revered Avicenna wrote 280 books in medicine and philosophy. His Canon of Medicine is highly indispensable to scholars. Avicenna was a leading herblist, who was also a first-rate clinician and an expert in heart disease. He wrote the hitherto bestselling Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia of medicine; and his Qanun (Canon of Medicine) is among the most influential and widely used books in the history of medicine. A significant portion of Avicenna's writings concerned diseases of the heart. He produced a major tract on cardiac drugs and cardiotherapy.
Avicenna, who is mentioned in Chaucer's. The Canterbury Tales,is credited for the first description of several drugs and diseases such as meningitis. However, his greatest contribution is judged to be his analysis and understanding of the philosophical princeples of medicine and his mastery of the psychological treatment of physical ailments or "psychosomatic medicine " as it is known today. Avicenna was a colossus: the way he died was remarkable. He simply tested a product on himself and the effect was fatal.
If we list all the names of such worthy scholars, who are buried in oblivion, scholars hitherto unknown to most of us, we would fill a grand volume of names. The sorry state of today's world hinders such a volume to be produced because what is good for us is often disparaged.. It is left upon those who are not subservient to the dictations of others, to delve deeper into the oblivious past and unfathom gems of great scholars and thinkers. After all, the past constitutes the future.
What we produce and achieve in a month, our ancestors would have achieved in a day. The seconds, minutes, and the hours are exactly measured--they are the same. Time has not changed; what has changed is man.
The forgotten scholars were not particular about trivialities; they were simply too busy satisfying their insatiable desire for knowledge and wisdom. They lived under bear necessities and they had produced the fruits that only the wise consume. Time is emasculated by the amount of excess we find around us. Too much of everthing to ease many things; yet we never seem to have much time. This is a paradox which can only be overcome by contentment and simplicity in life. If we seek Utopia, we must seek it in the spiritual sense and not in the materialistic, mercenary life we tend to lead.
