Living in Hope
English book, p. 27
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
THE WORLD IS NOT A TYPEWRITER This is a world of grave realities and it is only by adjusting to realities that we can achieve anything in this world. A man was sitting with a typewriter in front of him. Something came to his mind, and he immediately put a paper in the typewriter and his fingers started moving along the keyboard. His thoughts were taking the form of words. Now all the sentences were turned out as follows: • I am right, except for me, everyone is wrong. • There is no fault in me. In all matters, others are at fault. • I am the greatest of all. Others are inferior to me. • I am God’s favourite, Paradise is reserved for me. The man was happy that whatever he wanted had been written down on paper. But man’s misfortune is that the world in which he lives is not a typewriter. The

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