it is foolish to expect perfection in others if you do not strive to attain it yourself
Here we stand, in plain view of all, yet we retain a sense of false invisibility. We think that no-one can see us, and live under the illusion that we use to cover our own faults, and through which we view the faults of others. To paraphrase Jesus, the son of Mary; 'Why do you spend so much time criticising the splinter in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own?' Now, it is an unfortunate aspect of humanity that we have a tendancy towards judging too quickly. We can easily spot the stupidity, the hypocrisy and the falsity in others, and readily criticise it, but by so doing are we not committing a worse atrocity? Do we not have these faults just as they do? If we examine our own lives we will find that many of the things we do could in fact be irritating to others, and that despite our inner voice telling us how great we are perhaps the truth is more shocking and difficult to accept than we are prepared to admit. We are imperfect. Allah says in t...