English book · The Spirit of Islam

Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

English book, p. 441

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Balanced Thinking those who do not have any deeper understanding will engage in meaningless clashes and confrontations in the name of achieving the ideal good. When they suffer the consequences of this and they lose what they already have, they will start blaming their supposed enemies, whereas the loss they had incurred would be the result of their own foolishness rather than the result of injustice or oppression on the part of others. Willingness to accept what one already has, opens the door to progress. Those who learn this reality are the ones who may be called the wise. BALANCED THINKING Take loss and gain within the framework of a test, not personal interest. This belief saves one from frustration in loss and feeling arrogant when achieving success. C hapter 57 of the Quran states: “No misfortune can affect the earth or your own selves without its first having been recorded in a book, before We bring it into being. That is easy for God to do; so that

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