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The Wisdom of Life

39 How can a person maintain positivity
always?

y simply formula is: when I get a negative thought,
Mfeel offended or angry, I begin to think who will
suffer out of the manifestation of my negative thinking?
Every time, I realize that I will be the sufferer and not the
other person. So, if I will be the sufferer then why should
I harm myself? All negative thoughts only make us suffer
– so why should we indulge in it. This idea keeps my
positive thinking alive.

40 Should we not accuse those who

do wrong to us?

hese days, Muslims are engaged in bad-mouthing.
TMuslims have to decide whether or not they will follow
divine commandments. When the Prophet Muhammad
was in Makkah, severe atrocities were inflicted on him,
but when he reached Madinah he never spoke ill of his
Makkan opponents. The first sermon of the Prophet upon
his migration to Madinah does not carry a word of how
people from Makkah cast him away or of any atrocity
he faced at their hands. The Prophet’s first sermon in
Madinah was only about the message he had received
from God about the reality of life and death.

Muslims have to realize that God will not be pleased by
their negative thinking for others. He will be pleased

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