Do as you would be done by

Do as you would be done by

1986 1 January 18 Do as you would be done by (40) Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet as saying: “When your Muslim brother comes to you to excuse himself, accept his excuse, for otherwise you will not receive from me the water that I shall hand out at the Pond of Plenitude.”

Prerequisites

1986 1 January 18 Prerequisites (283) Pretreatment, a term associated with the textile industry, describes the process to which cloth is subjected before it can take further processing.

Types of pretreatment, such as desizing, scouring, and bleaching of cotton fabrics are carried out in order to remove any inherent or added matter present in cotton, thereby improving its absorbency and whiteness. Mercerization thus enhances the accessibility and reactivity of cotton cellulose.

These pretreatments, therefore, play a major role in subsequent dyeing, printing and finishing.

In fact, it has been reported that 70 percent of all the defects occurring in dyed-finished fabrics may be attributed to the imperfect preparation of the base fabric.

This principle of pretreatment is as important and necessary in human affairs as it is with clothes. If we want our efforts to bear fruit, it is essential that we should take the correct preliminary steps before plunging headlong into difficult situations. Without the necessary moral conditioning, all our steps will go awry, just like a cloth which is dyed without pretreatment.

For journalism of normally decent standards to come into existence, it is essential that there should be industries to feed it. In the main, it is industry which finances the newspapers. A nation destitute of industry will also remain destitute of journalism.

To concretize the power of our votes in elections, unity is the first prerequisite. Without that, our voting power will be divided and it will fail to become a genuine political power capable of serving true social ends.

Similarly, before taking steps of any social consequence, it is necessary to have a leader who is respected by the majority. Attempting to take initiatives without a central leadership is like leaping into an abyss.