زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ١٠٨ - Social losses of mistrust

suffering from this condition, look ever ything pessimis tically, 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" misund erstanding of realities" certainly causes retardation, non exploitation of opportunities and valuable individuals and failure before the events.

٢- Suspicion and pessimism are the greatest hindrance forsocial cooperation as well as unity and solidarity of hearts, andlead man to an individual life, solitude, isolation andindiv idualism and the vices caused by these attributes. Suspiciondoes not let man trust on the other and find the basis ofcoo peration with him, and solve the problems with hisass istance.

٣- Suspicion causes man to spy about the others and as wealready referred, spying is the source of slander and its relatedvices. Holy Quran too has indicated to this reality in verse ٢١, Chambers sura.

٤- Mistrust is the source of enmities, and sometimes, it is themain cause of bloody wars and battles. There are a lot offamilies, which are dissociated by mistrust, and there are a lot ofcompetent and dignified men who are killed for mistrust aboutthem! And sometimes suspicion has illuminated the flame ofgreat wars. We read in the occasion of revelation of the nobleverse:

انْ جاءَكُمْ فاسِقٌ بِنَباءٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا انْ تُصِيبُوا قَوْماً بِجَهالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلى‌ ما فَعَلْتُمْ نادِمِينَ‌ ..

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