Al-Risala (English), March 1990
Al-Risala (English), March 1990, p. 12
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
Avoiding condescension
1990 3 March 12 Avoiding condescension (22) “Craftsmen are not to be looked down on,” said the Prophet Mohammad, “for Zacchariah – himself a Prophet – was a carpenter.”
(Muslim, Sahih)
Impartial decision-making
1990 3 March 12 Impartial decision-making (98) Juadah ibn Hubayrah once came to Ali, the Commander of the Faithful, and asked him what he would do if two men were ever to come before him, one of whom was so fond of him that he would put him before his own self, while the other hated him so much that, given the chance, he would cut his throat. Would Ali decide in favour of the first and against the second? “If the decision were truly in my hands, I should please myself. But it is not. It is in the hands of God.”
(Kanz al-Ummal)
