Intellectual Imbalance

Intellectual Imbalance

1986 1 January 22 Intellectual Imbalance (177) Prof. Raj Krishna (1925-1985), reckoned among the fifty top brains of India, was an acknowledged expert in agricultural economics and had specialized in the study of employment and conditions of poverty in the third world. Owing to his extraordinary expertise in his field, he was acclaimed internationally, and many high posts were conferred upon him in the country. During his final days he went to Rome on a three-month FAO project, but before he had completed his mission, he died of heart attack all of a sudden on the 21st of May 1985.

How ironic it is that experts on International problems are unaware of their own problems. Man, blissfully ignorant of his final destination, carries out research into the future of others. Unaware of his own intellectual poverty, he makes speeches on the economic poverty of others. Honoured for his expertise in the problems of the world, he learns all too soon that he has lived all along in ignorance of his own immediate problems. How inadequate is such knowledge in the face of such ignorance!

Leaving God to deal with any harm done to one

1986 1 January 22 Leaving God to deal with any harm done to one (94) Imam Zain’ul-‘Abidin (38-4AH) was the son of Imam Husain Ibn ‘Ali. He was the only member of Husain’s family to escape the slaughter of Karbala. Someone once told him of a person who spoke ill of him, and wanted to do him down. Imam Zain’ul-’Abidin asked to be taken to see this person. Meeting him, he first greeted him with “may peace be upon him”. Then he said: “If what you say is true, then I pray that God should forgive me. And if it is false, I pray that he should forgive you.”