Nile on Nostr: Question going around X: what are the two most important events in human history? ...
Question going around X: what are the two most important events in human history?
‘Important’ depends on how you use the term ofc. If you make it synonymous with ‘what are the things that contributed to me getting food on my phone’ you’ll get boring superficial answers. I take it to mean, what events have benefitted human history most? There can only be one consideration for top spot.
1. The birth of Muhammad ﷺ - the mercy upon mankind. His life and times brought us Islam. The knock on effect of the ethics and morality encouraged in Islam goes beyond just impacting Muslims. Many cultures, religions and traditions are directly influenced by Islam. Medieval chivalry, to take only one example, is directly influenced from Islamic Adab.
#2 is a fascinating and debatable one. It’s especially interesting to think how the machinations of history have such profound knock on effects. Gavrillo Princip was moping around on a street corner when the Archduke was coasting by. Mendeleev had a dream and made a periodic table. Martin had one and got shot. It makes me marvel at the one who’s in control of all the strings. Everything’s happening according to his plan, to a tee. Even things which we label with words like disaster, catastrophe, or calamity. It happened to such an exact degree, that today, there are Bedouins competing in building towers, as laid out 1400 years ago in a Hadith (Ibn Majah, 63). Countless things would have had to pass, thousands of individuals contributing to this over almost millennium and a half. Yet it happened exactly as described.
‘Important’ depends on how you use the term ofc. If you make it synonymous with ‘what are the things that contributed to me getting food on my phone’ you’ll get boring superficial answers. I take it to mean, what events have benefitted human history most? There can only be one consideration for top spot.
1. The birth of Muhammad ﷺ - the mercy upon mankind. His life and times brought us Islam. The knock on effect of the ethics and morality encouraged in Islam goes beyond just impacting Muslims. Many cultures, religions and traditions are directly influenced by Islam. Medieval chivalry, to take only one example, is directly influenced from Islamic Adab.
#2 is a fascinating and debatable one. It’s especially interesting to think how the machinations of history have such profound knock on effects. Gavrillo Princip was moping around on a street corner when the Archduke was coasting by. Mendeleev had a dream and made a periodic table. Martin had one and got shot. It makes me marvel at the one who’s in control of all the strings. Everything’s happening according to his plan, to a tee. Even things which we label with words like disaster, catastrophe, or calamity. It happened to such an exact degree, that today, there are Bedouins competing in building towers, as laid out 1400 years ago in a Hadith (Ibn Majah, 63). Countless things would have had to pass, thousands of individuals contributing to this over almost millennium and a half. Yet it happened exactly as described.