Building Life

The Benefit of Avoidance this amount exceeded his income, the court ordered all the involved properties and the building to be confiscated by the government. Currently, both he and his wife are in jail. Such incidents emphasize the importance of the concept known in religious terms as contentment. General Ershad’s tragic downfall happened because he couldn’t practice contentment. He was not satisfied with his rank as General and aimed to become President. He was not happy with small plots of land and sought larger ones. He wasn’t content with a single-story house and wanted to own a thirteen-storey building. If they had been content with what they naturally received, they could have lived a peaceful and happy life. But instead of being satisfied with what they had, they chased after what they didn’t have. As a result, in their greed for more, they ended up losing even what they already owned. The key to life’s problems is contentment, not greed. THE BENEFIT OF AVOIDANCE During a trip to Pune, the locals told me that on September 22, 1991, a Ganesh Chaturthi procession was scheduled to happen. On the same day, it was also the 12th of Rabi’ al-Awwal, and the Muslims planned to hold their Miladun-Nabi procession. If both processions took place on the same day, a clash was unavoidable, which could lead to