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Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

English book, p. 412

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Those who do not understand these truths engage themselves in listing their rights at the time of reconciliation. They insist that that they be given their dues. This kind of effort is a permanent obstacle to reconciliation. Such attempts only aggravate the issue. They do nothing to further the cause of reconciliation. This world is a testing ground. It is full of unjust people just as there are plants, which are full of thorns. In such a world a person’s first priority should be not to become involved with unjust people. He should keep his distance from them and continue on his own forward journey. But if certain controversial issues arise with some unjust person, in the first instance, he should seek reconciliation and then move on. A person’s whole attention should be on continuing with his onward journey unhampered, rather than focus on the other party giving him his rights. Such reconciliation is in no way a retreat. It is a principle adhered to by purposeful people. One who has no purpose in life may devote his energies to getting his rights back at the crucial moment and spend all his life in achieving some impracticable reconciliation. Reconciliation has been given great importance in

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