"Friendship takes many years to establish; so do not fall out with a friend over a single disagreement."
-Sadi, "Gulistan"
From "366 Readings From Islam," translated by Robert Van der Weyer. Copyright 2000. All rights reserved.
Sound advice, no? God created us as rational, and yet emotional beings. We need companionship. We need friends and partners. We get angry with one another from time to time, but it is not worth the years of memories to walk away over a little disagreement that can be talked out logically.
If we could all master this on an individual level, there would be no need for lawsuits, for courts, for divorce, for war. We have to learn to rise above our emotions and remember the bigger picture - the reason why we are all here. Perspective is everything!
Give each other the benefit of the doubt. Strive to understand one another. Long to love one another. Forgiveness is, truly, next to Godliness.
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