English book · The Spirit of Islam

Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

English book, p. 293

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

THE PEACEFUL SOUL A peaceful soul uniformly maintains a spiritual relation with God in all situations. No experience, be it ease or hardship, disturbs his peace of mind. T he Quran describes the successful person as a peaceful soul (89:27). This applies to one who lives in a state of peace, dies in a state of peace and in every situation leads a peaceful life. The Quran gives us two caveats about this: one is that when God grants someone peace, contentment and abundance, he should not become proud but should rather live as a modest person in this world. Another caveat is that when God gives someone less than others in economic terms, he should not suffer from frustration and disillusionment but should rather respond to such a situation with patience and gratitude. In the life of this world, circumstances are never quite uniform. Sometimes there is affluence. Sometime

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