THE MATERIAL AND THE IMMATERIAL
Spirit of Islam, September 2018, p. 39
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.
For example, when you are not ready to pay for married life the same price that you are paying for money, this approach to life causes you to have a dual personality. This contradictory behaviour is not a simple matter. It leads to constant uneasiness, and then stress. You lose integrity. Your mind requires you to live as an integrated personality, but in your life’s pattern you adopt a style that deprives you of integrity. No one can afford this contradictory behaviour. When your mind persistently refuses this position, you have to fight your own nature. Those who lead this kind of life may seem happy in public life, but on closer observation it is generally found that it is artificial happiness. Apparently they smile, but in their hearts they are sad. For some days you can live in this manner, but a breakdown comes in the end, for then, reality is bound to prevail and you fall into a state of undeclared depression. Everything exacts its price, and this is true of happiness, which requires you to accept another. If you accept another person, he will accept you. It is a law of nature. Nature is based on the principle of mutual acceptance. By mutual acceptance you gain a very precious thing, that is, a living partner than which there is nothing greater in this world. o Our vernacular websites: www.peaceandspiritualityinkannada.com www.peaceandspiritualityinmarathi.com www.peaceandspiritualityinmalayalam.com www.peaceandspiritualityintamil.com

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