Keep Your Mind Open

The God-oriented person keeps all the windows of his mind open. Increasing his knowledge, his personality keeps developing until it reaches a peak of perfection.

According to a tradition, the Prophet of Islam once observed: “Words of wisdom are a believer’s lost treasure. Wherever he finds it, he is entitled to it more than anyone else.” (Sunan al-Tirmidhi 2687)

This tradition tells us the way of the believer. A believer is free of all kinds of prejudice. He does not discriminate between one person and another. He sees all individuals as God’s creatures and all human beings as God’s family. This thinking on his part is universal in character. Such a person learns lessons from everything. Owing to his universal thinking he comes to regard every useful thing as his own. As a true believer, he thinks every good thing to be the word of God. He takes everything, every good word, as if it were his very own.

This thinking of a believer, or a God-oriented person, makes him limitless. He continues to increase his intellectual treasure by adding new things to it. His life never stagnates. At every juncture he finds something positive by which he may continue his onward journey of life.

In this world, success relates more than anything else to information. The more information an individual has, the greater is his success. The God-oriented person keeps all the windows of his mind open. As such it becomes possible for him to go on increasing his store of information.

A believer is an unbiased person. He is a seeker of truth to the ultimate extent. Due to such thinking, he becomes like one who is ready to accept any good thing regardless of the source.

A God-oriented person’s thinking is totally that of a student. New things, new information, new knowledge give food for his soul. Like a tree, he keeps on growing. His personality keeps developing until it reaches a peak of perfection.