NOBILITY OF CHARACTER

Islamic Character ~ 133 ~ “Readiness to forgive those who wrong you, to give to those who deny you and to reunite with those who sever their ties with you.” It follows that a sublime character can be formed only when there is never any falling away from high personal standards in the face of wrong treatment from others. DEPENDABILITY When an engineer sets out to build a bridge, he chooses steel as the principal material to be used in its construction (as opposed to wood, bamboo, weaker types of metals, etc) for he knows in advance that it can be depended upon to bear very heavy loads. If he were not at all certain of this, he would not venture to construct a bridge made of steel. Everything in the world has been endowed with certain properties—just as steel has been endowed with strength and each element can be relied upon to display its own particular properties. The behaviour of each element can, therefore, be predicted when subjected to different sets of conditions. It is because of this reliability of