Building Life
English book, p. 194
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
focusing on what you didn’t have. A wise person is one who prevents themselves from this double loss. If you’ve lost your yesterday, don’t see it as gone; instead, view it as a source of learning. This way, even your lost investment transforms into a gained asset. Incorporate the value of past experiences into your current resources, and you’ll discover that what you lost has come back to you with added worth. Mourning over the past is like wasting part of your potential. Why make such a mistake? Why start a new day with incomplete potential? Empty your mind of yesterday’s sorrow and focus all your strength on your new day’s plans. This is the true way to lead a successful life. You may worry about yesterday as much as you want, but yesterday will never come back. What is gone is gone, and what remains, remains. Forget what is gone and hold on to what remains with all your might. This is the only secret to achieving success in this world. There is no other way to reach success here. THE NEXT PARAGRAPH Life is a long, tedious story. Only the person who consistently focuses on the next paragraph of the story can read it successfully. Every person’s life is this kind of story, whether they are small or big, whether they live in ordinary circumstances or in lofty and splendid conditions.

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