Look at an egg from the outside. It appears to be
wholesome and good. This may be so, but it is not
until we break the shell that we find out whether it
is really good or bad.
The same is true of many human beings today. It is
not until their outer shell is pierced that we come to
know the truth about them, Their bodies swaddled
in elegant clothes, their ideas couched in eloquent
words, they strike us as being fine creatures indeed.
But under the finest veneer there can lurk an ugly,
repulsive character. It is not until one gets close and
has dealings with such a person that one
discovers—particularly when there is a clash of
interest—how uninspiring is the reality. Behind the
gentlemanly facade lies a bundle of selfishness,
cheapness, affectation, pride, prejudice,
exploitativeness and arrogance. Challenge such a
person’s interests, and we see him in his true
colours. No good egg he!
In the vast morass of conflict which exists in the
world today, it often seems that it is the hypocrite
who remains supreme, the one who manages to
project himself as the “good egg” to the rest of the
world.
But this state of affairs can never last. The time is
fast approaching when man will be ushered into
another world where all hypocrisy will fall away,
and all power will rest, not in the hand of man, but
of God.
--Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
( Ref - The Moral Vision)
