FTWT: “Love And Hate Have Advanced The Growth” (II)

“What has contributed to the advancement of our intellect more than anything else? It is opposition, struggle, and passion (recursive thinking).A man fights, struggles hard and works hard either because something is opposing him, or he loves something. Love and hate, these are the two elements that have advanced the growth of human intelligence and the growth of our institutions of learning more than anything else. Love and hate. Hate moves us and love move us. We struggle hard and fight hard to overcome the hateful enemy, the opposition and we struggle hard and fight hard to save our loved ones. A man might not be worth anything. He might be a no account loafer. But, if he finds a girl or woman he loves enough and if he respects her enough, if she’s the kind of woman that can provoke in him respect for her that man will stop being a lazy, no account loafer and become the most industrious man in the city, working for a woman that he loves and he won’t be ashamed to tell her, either.” 

P. 22 “The Women Who Call To The Issue” Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra)