Mistake of Generalisation
English book, p. 54
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Both these forms of generalisations are completely wrong. This method of forming an opinion about someone or something is not intellectually sound and is also unethical and unjust. In a society where many people engage in such generalisations, people will have wrong impressions of each other, impressions that have no basis in reality. I have experienced this sort of wrong generalisation in the course of the mission of inviting people to God. Some people, focusing on just one aspect of my writings, sought, on the basis of this, to create a misleading general impression about me and my views. Such a method, while not being academic, is also dishonest.

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