The Sunday Guardian

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I The Sunday Guardian I 17th Mar. 2013 I Page 12

Good character is the sum of personal virtues, which guarantees correct and agreeable behaviour in daily social interaction. A person of good character will invariably conform in his behaviour to a strict code of ethics.

What should be the underlying principle of this code of ethics? According to a saying of the Prophet of Islam, this code of ethics is simply that you should like for others what you like for yourself, that is, you should treat others just as you want to be treated by others.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I The Sunday Guardian I 10th Mar. 2013 I Page 12

There are countless stars and asteroids in the universe. All of these are incessantly rotating in the vastness of space. Space is like a limitless runway for the movement at great speed of these countless orbiting bodies. But what is most amazing is that neither the planets nor the stars ever collide in their course.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I The Sunday Guardian I 3rd Mar. 2013 I Page 12

In mutual dealings in social life, it often happens that a person gives his word to another. There is apparently no third person or group between the two, yet there is always a third present, and that is, God, who is the supreme witness. That is why every promise becomes a divine promise.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I The Sunday Guardian I 24th Feb. 2013 I Page 12

In this world man sometimes loses, sometimes gains. These vicissitudes are the common lot. No one is exempt from them. Now the question is how man should react to them. Islam tells us that both these experiences are meant as tests. Here gaining is not in itself synonymous with success. Similarly, losing does not mean that an individual has failed for all time.