It is an established fact that throughout our lives we have made errors of judgment that no one is aware off. Many of us commit several errors throughout our lives. Some amount to embarrassment. But who can deny that many errors we commit are our little secrets and no one knows about them. Unselfish analysis reveals that we are protected in several of our errors. Protected in the sense that so many errors we commit remain covert and hidden. Only we know about them. At times our errors come into public notice but several times (if not most) they don’t. And in that sense we are very protected and covered and veiled.
The point being that if we enjoy keeping the many secrets we have and are glad nobody but our own soul knows about them then why should we strive to reveal anyone else’s secrets should we come across them? It is sad that there are those who garner some sort of pleasure in the discovery of someone’s secrets. Even worse are those who leave no stone unturned in unveiling those secrets. Why should anyone insist on revealing the mistakes of others? Why should anyone insist on revealing the errors of others? Do we not commit faults? Does everyone know about all our weaknesses? Does anyone know most of our wrongs? If not then isn’t it only fair that we too should act as veils to cover the errors of others?
There are many who insist that everyone else’s faults are revealed. And such people spend days and nights searching for such faults. There are those who love to publicly humiliate those at fault in their presence. There are many who publicly humiliate those at fault in their absence. But there are only a few who choose to keep their friends’ faults to themselves. Even fewer who choose to keep their enemies’ faults to themselves. And very few who choose to tell no one BUT the perpetrator in the hope that he or she might understand their mistake and change their ways. But most, unfortunately, do not notice the veil covering their own weaknesses. And they do not realize the damage they do to their own souls by tearing off the veils protecting others’ weaknesses.
Be a veil that covers others just as there is a veil that covers your weaknesses!