Three attribute were emph sized
throughout hi life, so An ar el-Sadat
notes, hich helped forge his path y
to ard peace and freedom. The first
-n:liance. He had an al unlimited
f 0 in himself; and undertook no
ithout first sensing that if all others f r­
him and aD apparent resources failed,
he could SOI11lCh<JIW
The third e organization.
o meant the 0plini of one' own
f and the encouragcmcnt of the kind of
self 4iscipIine in others that
persons to e on thoroughly raIlClIlaI
grounds which could be an 0 0 ed in ad-
vance.
Anwar d was, in his own self-
perception, a kind of manif of
God-made presen in human fonn. In
peaking of hi oneness-and of
mankind's w1ity- ith God and all of
creation, he wrote some timeless
o gi clarity and meaning to the cen­
tral AfricaD Swahili word, immanu, from
the H word immanu-ei
("God 0 us") is derived. He wrote:
" ,y tree made by
God; He decreed it. and i came into be-
o • These fresh green seeds
had oursd sown could never have
been there if God had not decreed it.
"This land 011 0 I ed, the run-
nin ater in- the canal, indeed,
everything around me made by an
overseeing God-a vast, migh y 0
that and takes care of all, in-
duding me. T , and frui
, therefore, my f in existence;
all came of the land and could
e . . The land· firm and
tough, so all to i must be
equally tough.
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Question For Refl. ction
1 - hy is it of importance that bl c
American claim and identify ith-on
racial or thnic ground -an h roi
orld fi ure Ii e An ar el- dat? hy
are heroes important to II peopl ?
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