Proving One’s Worth

PARENTING: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE He almost always lays the blame on others for his shortcomings. Inadequate preparation for life brings two evils simultaneously—failure on one’s part and uncalled-for complaints against others. A stone is hard to all and sundry. But it presents no problems to anyone with a tool that can break it. The same is true of the more complex obstacles that face us in life, for it is only if you enter the field of life equipped with the proper skills that you feel entitled to claim what is yours due. Even after the “last date”, you can be given admission to a college without anyone else intervening to help you. But without the necessary skills and ability, you will fail to find the place you aspire to. Anyone who wants success to come his way in this world of God will first have to make himself deserving of it. He must know himself and his circumstances. He must organize and channel his energies properly. He must enter the field fully armed in every respect; others cannot fail to recognize his actual value. He must be like the tree which forces its way up through the undergrowth to take its place in the sun.