All praise is due only to Allaah. We laud Him and beseech His

Everything has a mixture of good and bad
There is nothing in this world which does not have some good 
quality and some evil. Allaah Ta`ala has created everything in 
this world with a mixture of good and bad. There is not a thing 
which is purely good or purely evil. A person may be a kaafir, 
mushrik or an evil person, but if one searches in him, one is 
bound to find some good or the other. 
An English saying
There is an apt English saying wherein there is much lesson. 
Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) has said that a word of 
wisdom is the lost thing of a believer. We should not regard 
everything the kuffaar say as taboo. Something which they 
mention does have some merit therein. Anyway, there is an 
English saying that even a watch which has stopped working, 
tells the truth twice a day. For example, if we assume that a 
watch has stopped working at 12 o’clock. So this watch will not 
show the correct time the entire day, however there will be 
twice during the day and night, i.e. at 12 o’clock midday and 12 
o’clock midnight, when the watch will be showing the correct 
time. 
When you search for goodness, you will find it
The import of the one who coined this saying is that regardless 
of how useless and worthless a thing may appear, nevertheless, 

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Naivety is laudable in women
In this present generation many things (ideologies) have turned 
upside down. The fact of the matter is that there may be some 
trait which is regarded as a flaw in man but laudable in women. 
Even if we study the Qur`aan Majeed, we will see this where 
some things may be a defect in a man and yet the same thing is 
commendable in a woman. For example, it is a flaw in the 
character of a man that he be ignorant and naïve. A man is 
supposed to be aware of the happenings around him and not 
oblivious of his surroundings. On the other hand, Allaah Ta`ala 
praises women who are 
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(unwary, naïve/women who are 
oblivious of what happens around them) [Surah Noor, Aayat 
23] 
From this we gather that for a woman to be oblivious and 
unwary of what happens around her in the world and only 
concerns herself with her own obligations and duties is a 
praiseworthy and laudable trait.