How Mindsets Work!

How Mindsets Work! of the writer’s nobility, sincerity and love for the truth. Otherwise, in today’s world, students defy their teachers and do not want to give any credit to their benefactors and those who have trained them. In contrast, the very same words from the preface of my book, which the Faran perceived as exemplifying what it called ‘nobility, sincerity and love for the truth’, were understood in a diametrically opposite way by a magazine that has a very different mindset. My reference here is to the review of this book of mine that appeared in the Jamaat-e-Islami’s magazine Zindagi. The magazine quoted the very same lines from my preface as the Faran did, but the mentality that informs this magazine led to a very completely different opinion. Thus, the reviewer quoted the following lines from my preface: ‘It is indirectly because of Maulana Maududi that, fifteen years ago, during a critical stage in my life, my heart was overwhelmed by the desire to devote my life to the service of the deen, one expression of which is this book’. He then commented on these lines in the following words: When I read this quotation, I remembered this couplet: He whom I taught the skill of shooting arrows Finally made me a target for his arrow!