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Appendix 2: Waqf-e-Nau 153 to do so if the parents exercise wisdom and sensibility in training their children from the very beginning. c) Indifference to Worldly Riches and Luxury ( Ghina) : After contentment comes the stage of indifference (Ghina) to worldly riches and luxuries. This prevents jealousy of the rich on the one hand, and creates kindness towards the poor on the other. Ghina means that one should become indifferent to one ’ s own needs in order to fulfill the needs of the poor. d) Pleasant Personality: Teach these children to be jovial and pleasant. Acrimony and Waqf cannot go hand in hand. Good humor and forbearance, that is, the ability to tolerate what someone says, are the two qualities that are very essential for Waqifin children. e) Humor: Instill humor in their homes which is good, pious, refined and decent. In life, especially a life of hardships, responsibilities and mental tensions of various kinds, humor plays a very important role and safeguards the human mind and psyche. f) Honesty: It is necessary to help these children attain the highest standard of honesty and trustworthiness. g) Teaching Tolerance: Waqifin should be in the habit of suppressing anger right from early childhood. Teach them not to be contemptuous of those who have less knowledge and to have the patience to listen to an opposite opinion and be tolerant. h) Pleasant Manners: Huzoor (rh) emphasized the need for creating affability and civil manners in these children. Teach amiable manners and affability which enables them to make more friends and few enemies. An ill-tempered person