MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Why do you become angry when you are told something good? One is saying this for your own welfare. Do you think that when a hospital attendant gives you an injection, he does it for a certain pleasure? He does it for your benefit. This you can understand, but when you are told something that will be beneficial for you after death, you say:"Mind your own business". But our business and yours is the same. Is it not my business when you make a hole in a boat in which I am also? Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasallam) said that if one holds back the hand of a person who wants to make a hole at the bottom of a boat, then everyone will be saved. Otherwise, everyone will be drowned. Did you understand? Do not say that one is interfering with you as we are all in the same boat.

[English version of "Veille z'affaire" – Al Jamiat – Vol.1 No.5]