Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

USE THE RIGHT CRITERION TO JUDGE MATTERS The criterion to judge matters is not whether one is stern or gentle, but to see if one is God-fearing, well-intentioned and has the ability to discriminate between truth and untruth. M ost intellectual deviations result from the fact that the criterion for action is not clear in peoples’ minds. It often happens that a person thinks he is on the right path, but the criterion by which he judges the matter is often wrong. If he were to judge the matter by right criterion, he would know that his thinking was 100 per cent wrong. For instance, when the first Caliph, Abu Bakr, appointed Umar Farooq as the second caliph, or the leader of the believers, then most of the companions failed to come to an agreement on this. Their stand was that Umar was a stern disciplinarian and such a person should not be appointed as the leader of the believers. Abu Bakr called Uthman and asked him to