UNDERSTANDING ISLAM

When You Change Yourself, You Change Everything He told the boys to stop, but they didn’t listen. One day, out of frustration, he poured dirty water from the roof onto the children. The boys got drenched—and angry. In retaliation, they started throwing broken pieces of bricks up at the roof. One piece hit a porcelain wash basin fixed outside the man’s house. It broke instantly. The boys ran off, but the damage remained. If the man had simply ignored the noise—closed his ears instead of reacting—he would have saved himself from stress and from the loss of the basin. Losing Can Also Be Gaining “Accidents make a person a hero.” This saying perfectly fits the life of Louis Braille (1809– 1852). Louis was the son of a carpenter. At the age of just three, he met with an accident in his father’s workshop and lost sight in both of his eyes. He became permanently blind. But this very man went on to invent the world’s first reading and writing system for the blind—now known worldwide as the Braille System. For Louis Braille, the world was filled with darkness. But through passion and determination, he discovered a new light—not just for himself, but for millions of others. A similar story is that of Helen Keller (1880–1968), an American woman. At the age of just one and a half, she