Hawzah News Agency (Qom, Iran) -The Quran is the principle source of every Muslim’s faith and practice, but its basic theme is the relationship between God and His creatures and provides guidelines for a just society, proper human conduct and equitable economic principles. For the coming weeks we are presenting some short articles on ethical issues that have been written based on the verses of Quran.

One day a man had an accident while driving to work. He got out of the car and yelled at the other driver, “Lady! You need to learn how to drive. You are the fourth person that is hit me today.”

 In life, we can get to a point sometimes where, like this man, pointing fingers and placing the blame on others. However, there comes a time when we need to look inside and say, “Maybe I am the one that needs to change.” Imam Ali (as) said: “The wise man is he who knows his defection, fault, weakness and does not see the fault of other people”.

 If you are finding fault all the time and developing a habit of seeing the bad rather than the good; if you are skeptical and have trained yourself to be cynical and sarcastic rather than believing the best; if you are constantly blaming everyone for everything that is going wrong in your life, then maybe it is time to look inward instead of at others. Imam Ali (as) said to his son Imam Hasan (as): “O, my son, who looks the faults of others while he has that faults and weaknesses, he is a fool and stupid”.

 Just like the man who had the accident while driving to work; if he had been hit four times in one day, obviously, he is the one doing something wrong! Spend your time trying to improve your own life, and you will have a whole lot less time for being critical and judgmental. Imam Sajjad (as) said: “For man it is enough that addressing his faults, prevent him to be cynical and judgmental”. 

Noble Words

Author: Abolfazl Sabouri

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