Essays by Akrom Malik on ethics, language, literature and life.
The rule: People, and believers in particular, must not be indifferent to one another's circumstances. When a person's acquaintances, relatives, friends, neighbors, kin — 1. Fall…
Reason grows too. It is good manners that make reason grow. The more a person makes good manners his habit, the wiser he becomes. One without manners is far from reason and sense.…
Indeed, love that is far from respect, patience, esteem and good manners is not love but aimlessness.
Lying (deceit) has three forms: 1. You make a promise and do not keep it. For example, you say you will find out the price of something at the Jiydazor bazaar, but you do not do…
A woman's happiness is complete only with her family. The happiness of a woman without a family is lacking. Her heart is, in fact, deeply broken. And the pillar of the family is…
If the husband is not the leader in the family, the sons grow up girlish and the daughters mannish. The family gets tangled in petty problems. No mature personalities come out of…
In this age that is being called new, an opium named freedom of speech has been given to societies to drink. By that freedom, everyone has acquired the ill manners of saying…
Lineage, stock and descent are like a mine. If there is gold in a mine, the same gold will come out even after a thousand years. If silver, then silver; if iron, then iron; if…
Hubb uz-zuhur is the love of making oneself seen. This state blocks a person from Allah. If you are blocked from Allah, what need is there for pomp and splendor? First gain…
It turns out that saying a word about scholarship is a very great responsibility. Every word must be thought over a thousand times, weighed on the scales of evidence, and only…
Grief is healed by a greater one. As my Hazrat Alisher Navoi said: “To have no grief is the greatest grief.” It is not advice and lessons that make a person grow, but pain and…
This condition shows itself like this: those who come out against the state, those who criticize leaders, are seen as heroes and regarded as standard-bearers of truth, and they…
Everything I am about to write is directly related to the commentary written on “Hayrat ul-abror.” As I came of age and began dimly to tell white from black, I understood that on…
Assalamu alaykum. My research, which began in January 2021, has come to an end. Alhamdu lillah. The topic was approved as "Theoretical issues of the context of Alisher Navoi's…