justice. It measures or weighs things with exactness. The weighing scale demonstrates to a person what principles he ought to follow in giving and taking, in all his dealings in this world. A person’s

to him, the good human being is one who does not have this double standard. He should be to others what he is for himself. Knowing one’s own likes and dislikes is selfishness. Knowing others’ likes along

Speaking more means thinking less. One who is speaking all the time will never hear what others have to say and will thus limit his own knowledge. Speaking more always means restricting the scope of the

next world are concerned, they must remain forever invisible – beyond the reach of human perception. What the Prophet does is to enlighten people so that

described as being of “sublime character.”1 Here are two sayings of the Prophet, which throw light on what this “sublime character” consists of: Never debase your character by saying that if people treat you

my subject and I think that no standard dictionary can define wisdom precisely. I have discovered what wisdom is. I define wisdom as ‘the ability to discover the relevant by sorting out the irrelevant’

life management means, on the one hand man understanding himself, (i.e. he should know who he is, what his capabilities are) and, on the other hand, his becoming aware of the world around him. Then he

nature has provided a point of reference in the form of Kashmir, by which one can have an idea of what Paradise is like and work towards being held deserving of Paradise in the Afterlife. The Quran tells

tells us that whenever the people of Paradise are given fruit to eat, they will say, ‘This is what we were provided with before’, i.e. they had been given similar things in the world. (2:25) The present

her just that. Too late, she realizes what it means to possess no family of her own. “Here is a loneliness born of independence, of honest individualism in a society where only dishonesty brings profit

from the purely unpleasant to the downright disgusting. In her youth a woman may easily fall prey to what strikes her— because of her inexperience—as an appealing way of life. But, as she grows older, and

depression. Later somehow, they got married, a daughter having been born to them before marriage. What happened to her remains unknown. It appears, though, that she never stayed with Einstein. He had met

she had drawn her conclusions after talking to people who were close to him. “The palace has seen what I have written and the conclusions I have come to. No one has told me that I am on the wrong lines