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Building Life

English book, p. 229

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

No Hurry problem cannot be solved through confrontation, seek its solution with patience and strategy. If speaking proves ineffective, choose silence. When physical strength alone isn’t enough to accomplish a task, rely on your intellect and wisdom. This is the only principle for building a successful life in this world. The successful person is the one who discovers this principle and uses it to their advantage. The unsuccessful person is the one who fails to uncover this principle and, as a result, is unable to plan their actions correctly. NO HURRY When I was young and lived in a village in Uttar Pradesh, I longed to have a mango tree in my yard. One way was to plant a small mango sapling and wait patiently for it to grow over the years. But in my youthful eagerness, I wasn’t willing to wait that long. I wished for a fully grown mango tree to suddenly appear in my yard. There, I had a mango orchard. Among the trees was a fiveyear-old one that had grown taller than a person and was thriving. I hired several workers to tend to it. They dug around it all day, and finally, by evening, they hauled the tree on a large cot. A hole was dug in the courtyard, and the tree was planted there. I was very pleased with myself, thinking I had accomplished in one day what usually takes five years, by planting a big

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