The key part of the message which he addressed to the "People of the Sunna" was: "renounce peaceful calls, bear arms, and wage Jihad for the sake of God; to ward off the aggressors of the Egyptian army and the Safavid (Iraqi) army".
It dramatizes the pious men's devotion to the residents of the nearby town and refusal to renounce their calling in a time of trouble.
The Taliban last month announced the start of its annual spring offensive – fighting ebbs and flows with the seasons in Afghanistan's long war – by formally renouncing government calls for peace talks.
Is this how everyone would see it, that by agreeing to write his father-in-law's biography he had renounced his calling as a journalist?
Nietzsche, who initially worshipped at the Wagner shrine and then made a show of renouncing it, called Wagner "our greatest miniaturist," one who "crowds into the smallest space an infinity of sense and sweetness".
Abbas quickly renounced terrorism, called for an end to the intifāḍah against Israel, and resolved to create a single Palestinian armed force, but he soon resigned from office, claiming he had been undermined by Israel, the United States, and Arafat.
"My therapist pointed out that another great question — which had never occurred to us — was 'Is he worthy of you loving him?' " After Vatican II reduced nuns' status to that of ordinary Catholics, ninety thousand nuns renounced their calling.
2) The current division among the people that separates government supporters and dissenters, under conditions of economic, military and political encirclement, must be reconciled with calm and patient negotiations and reasoning, by condemning any kind of violence and by renouncing name-calling and inflammatory rhetoric.
But to renounce what Friedrich von Hayek called economists' "pretence of exact knowledge" is not to abandon the possibility that economic theory can inform policymaking.
