THE LAUNDRY STORY

May peace be upon you.


I would like to share an interesting story that was narrated to me by a friend, Farzana. Funny but wirh a beautiful lesson.

A couple was sitting in their kitchen having breakfast. Through the kitchen window, the wife was observing their neighbour's laundry being hung outside.

"I don't think our neighbour know how to wash their clothes properly. They don't look very clean to me. Perhaps they used the wrong detergent." The wife said.

But the husband kept quiet, sipping slowly his coffee.

The next day, the same thing happen again. The wife commented that their neighbour still do not know how to clean their laundry. And still the husband kept quiet.

This went on for a few days until one day the wife cried, "Ahh... they finally knew how to wash their clothes properly! Look... their laundry is so clean."

The husband who has kept quiet all this time suddenly spoke,
"I cleaned our kitchen's window this morning, it was dirty."


Unfortunately, many of us.. well... most of us can easily identify the mistakes and weaknesses of other people but fail to see our own mistakes, our own weaknesses. We criticize, we condemn and belittle people for their shortcomings and yet blind to see our own faults.

Perhaps next time we should see people through a clean window....