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Quranic Wisdom

The habit of suspicion is like smoking. It not only ruins
the health of the individual who has this bad habit, but it also
pollutes the whole of the social atmosphere. Suspicion is just like
moral pollution. Just as air pollution is harmful for everyone so
also is this kind of moral pollution. It is, in fact, like a spiritual
pollution.
All those living in a society where the majority of its members
are of a suspicious cast of mind, are bound to inhale its morally
polluted air. Everyone is bound to suffer from bad health in
terms of morality. So, suspicion is not an individual, but rather
a social evil.

In such a society, everyone becomes unpredictable, causing
mutual trust to disappear. And an absence of mutual trust leads
to many other problems. For example, in such a society, no one
will dare to support any other person and then there can be no
development of the culture of friendship.
There will be no unity and solidarity in such a society. This
being so, its members will lose their self-confidence and will
not venture to launch any large-scale project. This is because
such projects need collective efforts and collective efforts are
not possible in a society where people live in an atmosphere of
suspicion.
Suspicion is not a single evil; it leads to many other evils.
Suspicion is like a poisonous weed which rapidly multiplies in a
jungle of moral evils. Suspicion has no plus points. On all counts
it has only negative points. Anyone who wants to inculcate sound
thinking in his mind must avoid suspicion at all costs.
When the individual develops the habit of suspicion, it
gradually becomes his second nature. He starts suspecting
everything, he loses conviction and he feels that every man and
woman except himself is a suspicious person. He does not realize
that suspicion is the result of confused thinking and that having

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