Principles of Islam
59. Without Prejudice
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enemy, it will result in your starting to suspect
everyone, to the extent that even if a member of
your own community underscores the importance
of tolerance and avoidance, you will take it in a
negative light and dub him an agent of the enemy.
In this way, you will weaken yourselves by turning
your own people away from you.
One harmful aspect of such negative obsession is
that one loses all objectivity in thinking. One’s
entire outlook becomes partisan and prejudiced.
One is unable to see reality as it is. One becomes
like the man who can see only the thorns in a
garden of roses or the colourblind person to whom
a garden blossoming with flowers will appear in
melancholy shades of grey.
