Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

needy. His sensitive heart becomes a guarantee that he will not regard the weak as lowly but that he should rather rush to help them. The same is true of the traveller. A traveller might be well off in his hometown. But when he is far away from his home on a journey, he can in many ways need help. Here the believer’s faith motivates him to help the traveller in whatever way is necessary. Similarly, if there are people who are beset by some problem because of social traditions such as slavery and they don’t have enough money to buy their freedom, it is one of the virtues of the believer that he will spend money to free them. COMPETE WITH ONE ANOTHER IN DOING GOOD WORKS Life progresses on the principle of competition. One should compete to do good deeds like pursuing knowledge, calling people to God and social service. C hapter 2 of the Quran has this to say: “Each community has its own direction in which it