CONTENTMENT: THE SECRET TO SUCCESS

A similar situation happened in Pakistan with Syed Abul A’la Maududi. The former president, Muhammad Ayub Khan, offered Maududi and his associates the chance to create a large national university with full government backing. Through it, they could educate and train the younger generation. But once again, Maududi saw the offer as too small. He started a vigorous movement to take complete control of the government. After all his efforts, the result was that he lost both the small opportunity and the big one. This is the story of many Muslim leaders today. They became so absorbed in their imagined ambitions that they failed to see reality. They kept pursuing big goals, even though those goals were never truly within their reach. Meanwhile, they completely overlooked the opportunities that were realistically available to them. Due to this unrealistic mindset, these well-known leaders only ended up setting examples of failure. They never became models of practical success. In their attempt to gain more, they ended up losing even the little they had. The root of this serious mistake was that they saw the small as merely small. They couldn’t recognize the potential for something greater hidden within the small. They didn’t understand the basic truth of life: that every action begins with something small. No journey starts from the top. A person who understands this truth begins small and eventually reaches greater heights. But someone who fails