Whatever you do...
Whatever you do, you do to yourself Whatever befalls one it is only due to one’s own deeds. Nothing comes from outside or from another person. Man kills himself. It is so when one finds faults with another. By God! In fact, in that case one makes his own self faulty but he does not realize. What is he doing while finding faults with others? He makes himself or herself a target of cynicism, pessimism, enmity and jealousy. These are the evils which man brings to himself by abusing others.
When you say: Such and such person is shameless, you are decreasing your own modesty. In the words of Lady Zainab as she told Yazid: You think you…
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