Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Speaking Tree Website | January 5, 2015
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was an American politician, author and historian who served as the 26th President of the United…
God created a perfect and complete world as an eternal abode for man called Paradise. Then, He wanted to know who were the ones worthy of inhabiting that eternal world. For this purpose, He created…
There are two types of organized movements or missions. One type is that which has a popular base. In this case, people have a shared concern for a particular issue or cause and launch a movement for…
According to the Quran, all human beings, both men and women, are born with two opposite moral constituents. The first is mentioned in the chapter Yusuf (Joseph) as al-nafs al-ammara (12:53) and the…
From the Quran we learn that man is born with two distinct and often opposing faculties: Nafs Ammara (12:53) and Nafs Lawwama (75:2). In today’s terminology they are more familiar to us as ‘ego’ and…
Time and again we read news of disasters real or just averted or some other type of dangerous situations and how people later describe their feelings and reactions. One of the most common thing to…
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was a great leader of India. There are a number of interesting stories from his life. According to one of the stories, one day, as Gandhiji started to board a…
In a letter written anonymously to the American Journal of Medicine, a doctor gives a detailed account of a woman patient’s protracted illness when all efforts towards her recovery had failed. He…
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
—Albetano, ancient Roman philosopher
When a man is intoxicated with alcohol, he is not in control of himself. He may even go so far as to bang…
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