English book · The Spirit of Islam

Be of Service to Others

English book, p. 249

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Be of Service to Others There are many aspects to well-wishing. When you see someone doing something wrong or saying something wrong, your well-wishing would extend to your reaching out to him and trying with gentleness, compassion, sympathy and serious argument, to make him understand the error of his ways so that he may leave off his wrongdoing. There are such people who look at others only to see what they can gain from them. Such people are not desirable in God’s eyes. They are misfits on the map of nature. They fail in the test which God has set them in the present world. There are others who see people as potential objects of their beneficence. Such people will feel content only when they are able to be of service to others or when others can benefit from them. Such are those who pass the divine test.

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