It is recorded in a hadith that you should not do tit for tat. That means that you should not mete out the same treatment to others that you receive from them. The course of action that you should…

A world without borders is one in which people should be able to live anywhere, work anywhere and contribute anywhere – for the world is one. All thinking people have a beautiful dream — that of…

Swami Vivekananda, a great spiritual luminary of India, was motivated by a desire expressed by his guru, Rama Krishnan Paramhans, who once said to him: “I hope that someday you will visit the USA and…

Bertrand Russell was a liberal in the ultimate sense of the word. He often expressed thoughts which were so unconventional as to be pro­foundly disturbing to the more conservative members of his…

The well-known American evangelist Billy Graham (b.1918) narrates one of his life’s experiences. Once he received an urgent message from an American statesman who wanted to meet him at the earliest.…

Any ant, coming upon a heap of sugar and a heap of salt, would take the sugar and ignore the salt. This is the culture of the ant and can be summed up thus: ‘Ignore what is undesirable and adopt what…

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Times of India | December 22, 2010 | Page 20 When there is a severe storm, birds with small wings are caught up in it, but large birds with strong wings fly upwards and…

The Sunday Guardian | July 03, 2016 The life span of a human is more than a billion years but this life span is divided into 2 different periods. Approximately 100 years before death and the entire…

The Sunday Guardian | December 11, 2021 Some people once asked a venerable elder: "What is the reason why we ask from God, but our prayers do not get answered?" The elderly gentleman replied that…