Right Speech: Key to happiness and success

There is a Chinese saying which carries the meaning that 'a speech
will either prosper or ruin a nation.' Many relationships break off
because of wrong speech. When a couple is too close with each other,
we always forget mutual respect and courtesy. We may say anything
without considering if it would hurt the other party.
A women and her millionaire husband visited their construction site. A
worker who wore a helmet saw her and shouted, 'Hi, Emily! Remember me?
We were friends in the secondary school.' On the way home, her
millionaire husband teased her, 'Luckily you married me. Otherwise you
will be the wife of a construction worker.' She answered, 'You should
appreciate that you married me. Other wise, he will be the millionaire
and not you.'
A little girl asked her father, 'How did the human race appear?' The
father answered, 'Allah (SWT) made Adam and Eve and they had children
and so was all mankind made.' Two days later the girl asked her mother
the same question. The mother answered, 'Many years ago there were
monkeys from which the human race evolved.' The confused girl returned
to her father and said, 'Daddy how is it possible that you told me the
human race was created by Allah (SWT), and mother said they developed
from monkeys?' The father answered, 'Well, dear, it is very simple. I
told you about my side of the family and your mother told you about
hers.'
Frequently exchanging these remarks plants the seed for a bad
relationship. It's like a broken egg - cannot be reversed.