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Leading A Spiritual Life

English book, p. 102

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

intellectual development. So from being a bad person, he is converted into a good person. Mistakes play an important role in a man’s life. If an individual does not make mistakes, he becomes intellectually stagnant. Mistakes, in terms of their results, give a person a creative mind. For a human being, such a process is indispensable for intellectual development, and also for a person who is lacking in moral fibre to be converted into a worthy individual. This law of nature gives us a great lesson. When you make a mistake, do not take it as a negative experience. Take it rather as a process of nature. Nature wants to activate your thinking, so that your state of mind, if formerly uncreative, is now blessed with creativity. In all human progress, it is this process that is the most effective. Samuel Smiles (1812 – 1904) has rightly said: ‘We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.’ Peace for the Sake of Peace Peace cannot present a person with what he desires. It is for the person himself to reach his goal through planning and struggle. P eace is the most discussed theme in the world. Every section of society claims that it wants to establish

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