Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

July 29, 2019

“Why is everything of mankind vanity? Why is nothing from God vanity? Can vanity be removed because we read, and study our bibles, or is it one more vanity?
The whole creation was subjected to vanity by God, is the new creation vanity or is it from God?”

Ecclesiastes 1:2 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Facts: Sultan, Arabic Sulṭān, originally, according to the Qurʾān, moral or spiritual authority; the term later came to denote political or governmental power and from the 11th century was used as a title by Muslim sovereigns. Maḥmūd of Ghazna (reigned AD 998–1030) was the first Muslim ruler to be called sultan by his contemporaries, and under the Seljuqs of Anatolia and Iran it became a regular title. Thereafter it was frequently conferred on sovereigns by the caliph(titular head of the Muslim community) and came to be used throughout the Islāmic world.