English book · The Spirit of Islam

Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

English book, p. 370

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Speaking more means thinking less. One who is speaking all the time will never hear what others have to say and will thus limit his own knowledge. Speaking more always means restricting the scope of the speaker’s ability to gather knowledge, reflect upon it and analyze it. This results from the unnecessary use of the tongue. When the tongue is wrongly used, the harm caused by this is incalculable. The wrong way to use the tongue is to abuse others or indulge in idle gossip about others to spread rumours and mislead others by giving out false information. One who speaks such words as create mistrust among his hearers cause people to start hating others. People begin to have doubts about one another quite unnecessarily. Such a futile use of words devalues the original blessing of the tongue. Such wrongful use of words is evil and negates the blessing of the tongue. In the eyes of God this is evil and sinful.

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