If you allow the problems that you face to turn you into someone who is constantly grumbling and complaining, they will only destroy you. But if your problems lead you to develop the habit of introspection, they will become a source of mercy for you. By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan A hadith appears in the Sahih…
By Hazrat Inayat Khan There may perhaps be someone among our friends or acquaintances whose one word has weight and power; whereas another person says a thousand words that go in at one ear and out at the other. And this is because in one person his mouth speaks, in another person his heart speaks,…
The sick person must develop positive thinking, and that in the face of illness, he must not yield to despair. By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Illness appears on the face of it to be something very undesirable. But if you think about it deeply, you will discover that there is a positive aspect even in illness.…
How blind are those who can see the skill of a conjurer’s magical feats, but not the infinitely greater feats of God’s creation! By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Looking at the human body from a purely physical point of view, one finds that it is just made up of water, carbon, oxygen and some other chemical…
“The universe has been brought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.” (Nicholas Copernicus”1473-1543) “I have endeavored to gain for human reason, aided by geometrical calculation, an insight into His way of creation; may the Creator of the heavens themselves, the father of all reason, to whom our mortal senses owe their existence,…
Everyone has set some or the other goal for himself, and he spends all his energies in order to attain it. By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan A hadith report refers to people who, on the Day of Judgment, will find place in God’s shade. Among these people, one is referred to, as someone whose heart is…
Do not be miserly (4:37) Do not kill each other (4:92) Do not be an advocate for deceit (4:105) Do not cooperate in sin and aggression (5:2) Cooperate in righteousness (5:2) Having a majority is not a criterion of truth (6:116) Be just (5:8) Strive against sinful and unlawful acts (5:63) Dead animals, blood, the…
The spiritual person is a most desirable individual when it comes to establishing a better society. By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan There was once a man who left his home and all his possessions and went off into the jungle to live all alone in close proximity to the trees, flowers and the animals. His purpose…
In his book Recovery of Faith (1967), S. Radhakrishnan (who served as India’s President from 1962 to 1967) quotes the noted psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung as writing in his Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933): “I have treated many hundreds of patients, the large number being Protestants, a smaller number Jews and not…
Peace for the sake of social justice is not a practicable formula. The only workable formula is peace for the sake of normalcy By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan We often talk of peace in the context of war. But this is a very narrow and restricted notion of peace. Peace is deeply linked with the entirety…
