How to tell between good end bad
Al-Risala (English), February 1991, p. 7
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.
How to tell between good end bad
1991 2 February 7 How to tell between good end bad (46) “When should I think of myself as pious?” someone asked Aishah. “When you start thinking of yourself as impious,” she replied. “And when should I think of myself as impious?” the person asked once again. “When you start thinking of yourself as pious,” came Aishah’s reply.
Today and Tomorrow
1991 2 February 7 Today and Tomorrow (228) Greta Garbo (1905-1990), the American actress, was considered the most glamorous woman of the screen. At the highest point of her popularity, however, she retired from the film world in 1936 to live a life of total seclusion in a house in New York, until finally she breathed her last in the same life of seclusion.
Why did Greta Garbo live a life of seclusion for more than fifty years? This is an important question, which she herself never answered. This is what one commentator has written about this puzzling question.
Garbo took her moment, and when she realised that it was over, she retired into her private world. She did not want the crowd to see the degrading of her beauty. It had to remain perfect or not be seen at all. What were her thoughts in her half-century of exile from the cinema? We will never know perhaps. But I would guess she suffered deeply, but serenely, She must have watched the passing years go by with the same wisdom with which she endowed her great heroines.
Man is unable to bear the negation of his existence even in part. What will happen tomorrow when the negation of his existence will be total, when there will be no corner in which to hide himself from others? How strange is man and how strange is his fate.

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