LOVE, DESPITE HATRED
Sir
Thomas Carlyle, a well-known and celebrated British writer once wrote:
A loving
heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
THIS saying is extremely
meaningful but its meaningfulness cannot be properly understood unless these
words are added to it, 'Loving, despite there being a cause for hatred', for in
this world the factors of hatred are always present. No one can love other
human beings without demonstrating that they are broadminded enough to love
people despite experiencing their hatred and ill-will.
Thomas Carlyle’s life itself
serves an example. The crusades as hatred between Muslims and western nations,
with the result that the latter failed to recognize the Prophet. For centuries
they held the Prophet to be an evil person. But Thomas Carlyle rose above the
cloud of hatred in the wake of the crusades and studied the life of the Prophet
objectively. He became so impressed that he held him to be the hero of all the
Prophets, acknowledging the worth of his personality with the highest of praise
in his book Heroes and Hero worship.
To
develop a heart within one, which may love despite hatred amounts to taking
oneself to the height of morality.
To develop a heart within one,
which may love despite hatred amounts to taking oneself to the height of
morality. This high morality is the only ground on which the plant of knowledge
grows and develops into a lush green tree.
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