FOURTH ASPECT

It is a sin from the point of view of personal life. Listen to the following four Principles which are the base of this Fourth Aspect.

F i r s t P r i n c i p l e : When you know your way and opinions to be true, you have the right to say, "My way is right and the best," But you do not have the right to say, "Only my way is right," According to the sense of

“The eye of contentment is too dim to perceive faults; it is the eye of anger that exhibits all vice;"(7) your unjust view and distorted opinion cannot be the all-decisive judge and cannot condemn the belief of another as invalid.

S e c o n d P r i n c i p l e : It is your right that all that you say should be true, but not that you should say all that is true. For one of insincere intention may sometimes take unkindly to advice, and react against it unfavourably.

T h i r d P r i n c i p l e : If you wish to nourish enmity, then direct it against the enmity in your heart, and attempt to rid yourself of it.

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(7) Ali Mawardi, Adab al-Dunya wa’l-Din 10; Diwan al-Shafi’i 91.