Page 80 - Character Types of the Unbelievers

CHARACTER-TYPES OF THE UNBELIEVERS
families want their children to be doctors and instill this idea in them.
For this reason, almost every child says that he wants to be a doctor
when he grows up. Of course, it is good for a family to want their chil-
dren to have a useful profession for humanity but, in a society of igno-

rance, the main purpose of a family that directs their children to this
profession is to win adulation from their community. Another reason
is that, when a family member gets sick, their children who are doc-
tors will be able to look after them and this gives them a sense of secu-
rity. And besides this, doctors make the best candidates for marriage.
This way of looking at doctors in a society of ignorance begins as
soon as a student enters a faculty of medicine. The students who nav-

igate the corridors with their white lab coats have only one model in
mind. According to the model they are taught, doctors are above all
sure of themselves and think they know everything. When they talk to
patients they use phrases containing medical terms which the sick
person cannot understand. Of course, these doctors know that their
patients cannot understand this language but they continue to use it
thinking that this is the way a doctor speaks. In the societies living by
the morality of ignorance, after they start practicing, the majority of
doctors have only a few goals left; they want to be a famous specialist

or a professor, to have a luxury office and earn as much money as pos-
sible.
The greatest suggestion that people are indoctrinated with in
some societies is the error that people’s lives are in the hands of their
doctors. It is this subconscious suggestion that underlies the respect
and awe in which doctors are held in such a society. Members of igno-
rant society who are totally unaware of the Might and Power of Allah,

Who created them from a drop of water and feeds them, are deceived

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