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The Inverted Pyramid

English book, p. 232

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Why did the villager not accept my offer? The reason perhaps was “suspicion.” He thought I was trying to benefit from his weakness and wanted to change a defective note for his coins. This suspicion was so deeply rooted in him that he could not make up his mind to change his coins for my note, even at the cost of missing the train. This is the general situation of our society now. Everybody looks at others with suspicion. Everyone suspects the other person to be dishonest. This is the reason for the atmosphere of dishonesty in society. Everyone has deprived himself of many possible gains. Usually to work together, it is necessary to seek the support of other people, but the prevalence of suspicion has ended the possibility of receiving such support. Suspicion gives birth to suspicion, while trust is born out of trust. If you look upon someone with suspicion, in response, he too will have his suspicions about you and the distance between you two will keep on increasing. On the contrary, if you develop a relationship of trust with him, he too will repose his trust in you and both will start coming close to one another. The soul inside each person is one and the same. But generally people develop the misunderstanding that they are different from others. Healthy Criticism In the June 1983 British General Election, Mrs. Thatcher easily won another term as Prime Minister. One of the first things she did after her election was sack her foreign minister, Mr. Francis Pym.

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