Inculcate Two Qualities

Your Faults

I want to first correct those faults of yours which are not natural but temporary. Even if your parents don’t pay attention to them, one day this inattention will show consequences.

Your rudeness, carelessness, laziness, selfishness, craving for comfort, disrespect, miserliness and haughtiness – these are faults that you don’t know about now, but as you grow older, they will become poison for you. Then, you will have no relatives or others.

Inculcate Two Qualities

Make an effort to acquire two qualities in yourself, intelligence and modesty. Intelligence will guide you when needed, and modesty will stop you from bad things. These qualities will support you everywhere. You  will never be humiliated, and no evil will befall you. Whatever difficulty overcomes you, will become easy through the Command of Allah.

The order of the world is based on intelligence. The more wisdom Allah has given someone, the better they do things. The firmness and destruction of every building depend on intelligence or a lack thereof.

(Husn-e-Mu’aasharat)