Backbiting
Al-Hujurat (The Dwellings) 49:12
How to Make a Line Shorter without Erasing it?
One day a teacher drew a line across the floor. He asked the class "you must make this line shorter, but you cannot erase any bit of it." Everyone present thought that it was clearly an impossible task.
Yet within moments the teacher and everyone else present had to agree that a student had made the line shorter without erasing any of it. How could this be?
A student came forward and just drew a line longer beside to it.
Life Lesson: This gives us a learning- if you want to defeat your competitors, don't harm them, or make them weaker, inferior etc. Make yourself stronger, fitter, more talented and superior.
This is called healthy competition.
Every entrepreneur has a different definition of success. While some view diversification of a product line as a sign of prosperity, others see an increase in the number of their customers and employees as a mark of growth.
Growth, however, can be a result of business done right or it can be simply seen as a means to an end. Several businessmen measure their success by taking into account their competitor's business style and not their own business plan.
Entrepreneurs should instead focus on drawing their line longer when it comes to their own business undertakings. Entrepreneurs should start by asking themselves what business cycle they want to be in and what efficiencies they'd like to develop.
You'll be able to derive success from the line you draw for your business endeavors, and more often than not, it will be bigger and better than your closest competitors.
Once a teacher asked student the question. Teacher drawn a line on a paper with pencil & posted paper on a board. He asked students to make the line shorter without erasing by eraser or extending it with pencil.
How to make it shorter without touching it?
One of the students just draws another bigger line ahead of previous line. Now the other line looked shorter.
Now teacher decides to trick the students. 'Now without touching any line it make left line longer & right line shorter', he asks further.
To change positions of shorter & longer lines
The student was smart & just rotated the paper upside down. That way, now left line looked longer & right one shorter!
I think when people backbite and others listen. All try to shorten the line by erasing. None speaks out; don't eat real brother's meat.
Hadith; the punishment for backbiting is that Allah will take away from your account of good deeds and give it to the one you hurt as an act of compensation.
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