Physician, heal thyself
Physician, heal thyself! T he Prophet ﷺ has observed that people are readily inclined towards spotting a speck in others’eyes, but casually neglect a log in their own. It is human tendency to blame anyone and everyone for our problems but our own selves. Today, Muslims world over are waist deep in misery, and we tend to transfer the entire burden of blame on Zionists, Americans, NATO, Russians, Hindutwa, communism, capitalism-anyone and everyone but our own selves. I do not say that that these external factors mentioned above have not played their part in drubbing us Muslims. They most certainly have, and for good reason. The ideology that Islam presents is bound to be met with retaliation. In an earlier essay on ‘Cultivated Islamophobia’ published here some months back, I had sought to make it amply clear that hatred towards Islam and Muslims is being systematically cultivated in the minds of the masses so as to keep them away from the j