Was his piercing cry of moan in the lonely forest a waste?

Was his piercing cry of moan in the lonely forest a waste? No! It immediately comforted him in his pain. The instinct of Seeking out the Unseen with a cry of moan comes as an immediate relief to all of us. But we do not pause to ponder. It is said that fear as part of the human instinct begins even before a baby is born. Some pregnant mothers are reported to have noticed that a sudden loud noise or a.

sudden let go heavily onto the couch produced distinct signs of disturbance in the baby in the womb akin to the Signs of fear. Fear in Children. Let us conclude the discussion by the comments on the following quotation from a good authority on the natural aspect of fear in the children: "Another characteristic of the child's personality is the presence of many fears. These fears result from uncertainty combined with easy recourse to imagination.

The imagination runs toward superlatives and when a child indulges in fantasy, things are either very attractive or very threatening." We can ascribe a reason for this in the context of Islam; Imagination by the child or his fantasy is a phase of manifestation of his attempt at perceiving things which are and remain Unseen.

The child's negative fear of the worst" because it is caused by his uncertain of an Unseen like ghost and spirit itself indicates one impor- tant thing, -the existence of the natural positive capacity also for "submission to the best", that is, his Creator, -in the realm of the Unseen -because it is derived from 'certainty' which is "Al lmaan bil Ghaib".

So let the child be a child under the dictates of a child's nature while he as a child gropes in the dark for light, that is, knowledge leading to faith and then conviction, which he attains one after the other regarding the Unseen later in his adult life. Spare the Child from Inferiority Complex (Part 1 of 3) A young person enters a crowded mosque or imambara through the front door a sermon or preaching is going on.

Believing that all eyes are on him, he unconsciously touches his nose once or twice with his hand before he finds a place This is not an inferiority complex; - only shyness. - that type which shows. While shyness is an embarrassment if there is awareness that it shows, an inferiority complex is an agony. It is not fairly easy to adjust to if it begins in childhood, mostly cultivated in the child by the parents unknowingly. It affects the personal' the child when an adult.