living in this city for the last 30 years. But never in all these years have we witnessed anything like what we witnessed in the last three days.” And then, as is the norm, he began cursing the community that

your city. But please also ask yourself that if for the last 30 years there had been no riots there, what was the reason for this?

most we could correct these errors while accepting what he related as true. In the actual hadith, contained in the Sahih al-Bukhari1, Abu Hurayrah narrates that one day a Bedouin came to the Prophet’s

Prophet’s mosque in Madinah and urinated inside. On seeing what he was doing, some Companions of the Prophet rushed towards him. But the Prophet told them to leave the Bedouin and to pour some water on the place

honeybee gives a lesson to man in a symbolic manner: Live like the honeybee. Extract what is good for you and leave what is unwanted for you. Do not waste your time in complaining and protesting about it

honeybee gives a lesson to man in a symbolic manner: Live like the honeybee. Extract what is good for you and leave what is unwanted for you. Do not waste your time in complaining and protesting about it

determine reality, we must not get emotional. Being objective about reality entails acceptance of what we have received. Any other criterion to evaluate reality is incorrect. We should learn the practical

depress ourselves asking questions such as ‘Why me?’ and ‘Why isn’t it working after all my efforts?’20.WHAT ARE THE SIGNS THAT YOU ARE WASTING YOUR LIFE?The worldly criterion to evaluate the success of life

to our hard work. The approach should not be to work hard towards anything but to work hard towards what is ‘workable’. We must therefore envisage realistic and unemotional targets. A realistic target would

never lead to frustration whereas an unrealistic target would cause depression and frustration.21.WHAT IS PATIENCE?In my view, patience is the ability to remain normal when I cease to be effective. This

is in no way a payment for conjugal rights. Conjugal rights are far too precious to be equated with what is normally given as mahr. The amount of mahr is, in actual fact, a token sum of money, which symbolizes

material form, the responsibility that a man has to fulfill in regard to his wife till his last breath. What is this responsibility? It is that man will maintain and protect his wife for life. In the family

scale and who have come to acquire what Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru called “the scientific temper.” I am not, I repeat, in favour of status quoism. I write only to stress what our starting point should be if

if we want a real future for our country, and along what lines we must continue our efforts on the political front. In principle, we have opted for democracy as our political system. But our democracy is

person will be regarded as blind by God. Angels will note that when he had to offer thanks to God for what He had given him, he kept praying to God for something else.

engaging in genuine repentance, one who has erred will be unburdened of the effect of his bad deeds. What is most important about this is that the wrong-doer will be granted forgiveness by God and will consequently