DEVELOPING ONE’S PERSONALITY

feel motivated to work more for your own progress. This way you will prevent a feeling of jealousy which is a very harmful trait. You should practice this method with every negative thought that enters your conscious mind, and make use of the consciousness completely to convert it to your advantage. If you delay in doing this, the thought will travel into your subconscious mind, and then, after some time, enter your unconscious mind. And when it enters your unconscious mind, it will become such an integral part of your personality that no matter how much you may try to separate it from yourself, you will not succeed. Generally people do not practice this. And they pay a terrible price for it—this being the negative personality behind every seemingly beautifully attired person. If you want to save yourself from this terrible end, you must adopt the method outlined above and make it an integral part of your daily life. Other than this, there is no method to solve this issue. o Whenever a negative thought enters one's mind, at the very first instance one should try to resolve it by converting it into a positive aspect. Tolerance Tolerance means, to give consideration to others. A pious man should be a man of principle as far as he himself is concerned, but should be tolerant towards others. He should judge himself in the light of the ideal but in the matter of his fellow men he should show tolerance and broad-mindedness—this being inseparable from human gentility and nobility. Islam aims to produce this fine human quality of gentlemanliness by preaching tolerance.