The Moral Vision
Beware of Negative Thinking
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BEWARE OF NEGATIVE THINKING
The greatest weakness of present-day Muslims is
their negative psychology. They feel that all the
nations of the world are inimical to them, and so
many of their activities are seen as acts of hostility
against the Muslims. This negative psychology has
resulted in all their thinking becoming unrealistic.
Suppose you are hit on the head by a ripe piece of
fruit which has fallen down from a tree. If you
persist in thinking that the tree has maliciously
thrown it down at you, you will never succeed in
either identifying the problem or in solving it.
The U.S.A., for instance, takes the side of the Israeli
Jews against the Palestinian Muslims. All over the
world, Muslims see this as an expression of enmity
towards themselves. But nothing could be further
from the truth. In this world of vested interests,
America sides with Israel, because its own
economic interests are at stake there. It has nothing
to do with being an enemy of the Muslims.
By helping Israel, America makes a two-fold gain.
Firstly it can in this way keep the oil-producing
