Issues of Ijtihad

The man accepted my advice, and, resigning from the company where he worked, went off to another city. There, he became engaged in business, and, compared to before, he was now in a far better position economically than before. In every person’s life, a time comes when he experiences some sort of loss. People who consider a loss to be just a loss can, through new efforts, make themselves successful once again. On the other hand, people who consider loss to be permanent failure lose their courage and give up. They lack the will and determination to engage in any new action. Which of these two courses of action a person will adopt depends on his thinking. It is his way of thinking that makes a person fail or leads one towards success. Difficult Becomes Easy Along with more than 10,000 of his Companions, the Prophet Muhammad was proceeding from Makkah to Taif. On the way, they came to a mountainous path that did not seem wide enough for them to move on. The Prophet asked the people how the path was. Based only on the external appearance of the path, they said that it was a narrow path. It seemed as if this caravan of more than 10,000 people would not be able to move on the path. The Prophet said it is the easy path. (Sirah Ibn Hisham, Vol. 2, p. 482) He explained that the road would definitely be narrow for them because they wanted to pass through the path all