Just over a year ago when I was in Jabalpur, a town in India, I met a middle-aged gentleman by the name of Abdus Salam Akbani from the town of Nagpur. In the course of conversation, he told me an…

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…

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | January 03, 2016, p. 12"Evil can have no beginning but from pride nor any end but from humility."When the English author William Law (1686-1761) wrote…

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | The Sunday Guardian | August 21, 2016, p. 12Ego is an innate faculty of every human being and has a very important role to play in the personality of every man and woman.…

The Sunday Guardian | Jun 23, 2019 The American space shuttle; Challenger, built at a cost of one billion dollars, was launched into space on January 28, 1986. But just one minute after its lift-off…

 Times of India | April 03, 2010  Some people have inherent special qualities that enable them to master all situations. Such individuals can, when they come to a gathering, win the hearts and minds…

Times of India | January 03, 2011 Confidence is good, but overconfidence is not. When you become overconfident, you tend to take great risks. If you fail, that might pull you down as it is not in…

Soulveda | April 22, 2024 Herbert W. Armstrong (1892 – 1986), the founder of the well-known American magazine The Plain Truth, observed in one of his last articles that during his long professional…