Islam As It Is
Islamic Character
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“Readiness to forgive those who wrong you, to give
to those who deny you and to reunite with those
who sever their ties with you.”
It follows that a sublime character can be formed
only when there is never any falling away from
high personal standards in the face of wrong
treatment from others.
DEPENDABILITY
When an engineer sets out to build a bridge, he
chooses steel as the principal material to be used in
its construction (as opposed to wood, bamboo,
weaker types of metals, etc) for he knows in
advance that it can be depended upon to bear very
heavy loads. If he were not at all certain of this, he
would not venture to construct a bridge made of
steel. Everything in the world has been endowed
with certain properties—just as steel has been
endowed with strength and each element can be
relied upon to display its own particular properties.
The behaviour of each element can, therefore, be
predicted when subjected to different sets of
conditions. It is because of this reliability of
