Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

Choice between Lesser Evil and Greater Evil If you go ahead without a proper analysis of the circumstances, it is quite possible that because of having wrong initiatives, your actions will become counterproductive and you may lose any unexpected benefit or even that which you already possessed before taking any action. If, after suffering such consequences, you start blaming others that will be adding insult to injury. Your loss, which circumstances exacted from you, will be the price of your mistaken course of action. CHOICE BETWEEN LESSER EVIL AND GREATER EVIL Accepting what one already has, opens the door to progress. A deeper awareness of reality makes one content with the lesser evil and will devote all his energy to constructive activities. T he second Caliph of Islam, Umar Faruq, once observed: “The wise person is not one who knows good and evil, but one who knows out of two evils which is the lesser evil.” (Dham al-Hawa, Ibn alJawzi, p. 8)