Dearest to God Are Those Who Are Most Beneficial to People

had only exhibited his desire to do so. If you have done service to humanity, you have performed a virtuous task, but even if you just aspire to be of service to humanity, that too will have an overpowering effect on those around you. For example, in the above incident a person who was initially looked upon with mistrust by the policeman was afterwards regarded with the respect of one who is a sincere well-wisher of humanity. The policeman’s anger was instantly pacified and transformed into reverence. Without doubt showing benevolence and being of service to people are exalted deeds. If you have only sincerely expressed the intention to perform these acts of kindness, it would still work as an irresistible force in your favour. Here I would like to cite an incident from the life of the Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam (d. 1996). I read about this incident in an article that Dr Abdus Salam had written for a journal. In one of his travels to Europe, Dr Abdus Salam had a conversation with an Orientalist. The Orientalist revealed that many countries in the East, especially the Muslim ones, sought aid from Western nations. He enquired why should these Muslims countries be given aid when they had made no contributions to human history? He offered this as a justification against the contention