Social losses of mistrust

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Individual losses of suspicion Sources of suspicion and pessimism

Social losses of this moral vice are too much and its undesirable effects are widespread and extensive, such as:

1- Suspicion causes social misunderstanding, as those suffering from this condition, look everything pessimistically, and involve in numerous mistakes in recognizing the situation of individuals, events and incidents, real causes and motives of the activities occurring in the society, and live in an dreamy world against what really exist, and this misunderstanding of realities certainly causes retardation, non exploitation of opportunities and valuable individuals and failure before the events.

2- Suspicion and pessimism are the greatest hindrance for social cooperation as well as unity and solidarity of hearts, and lead man to an individual life, solitude, isolation and individualism and the vices caused by these attributes. Suspicion does not let man trust on the other and find the basis of cooperation with him, and solve the problems with his assistance.

 

 

 

 

3- Suspicion causes man to spy about the others and as we already referred, spying is the source of slander and its related vices. Holy Quran too has indicated to this reality in verse 12, Chambers sura.

4- Mistrust is the source of enmities, and sometimes, it is the main cause of bloody wars and battles. There are a lot of families, which are dissociated by mistrust, and there are a lot of competent and dignified men who are killed for mistrust about them! And sometimes suspicion has illuminated the flame of great wars. We read in the occasion of revelation of the noble verse:

اِنْ جاءَکُمْ فاسِقٌ بِنَباء فَتَبَیَّنُوا اَنْ تُصِیبُوا قَوْماً بِجَهالَة فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلى ما فَعَلْتُمْ نادِمِینَ).

If an ungodly man comes to you with a tiding, make clear, lest you afflict a people unwittingly, and then repent of what you have done.

When suspicion and pessimism of Valid Ebne Aghabeh was about to cause destruction of a tribe, and Holy Quran prevented this great tragedy through instructing for clarification and investigation.(1)

5- Suspicion extinguishes kindness and friendship, and develops hypocrisy and dissimulation among friends, because such person has to affect friendship with his friends apparently, while his interior is not so, and has a mistrust on them, and this behavior leads to development of spirit of hypocrisy and dissimulation in him.

In summary, the social vices and losses of suspicion and mistrust are more than what are usually supposed, and what we said hereabove is actually a part of these vices.


1- Please study the occasion of revelation under verse 6, Chambers sura, in the Example Commentary (Tafsir Nemouneh)

 

 

 

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