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The Problem is itself a Solution

English book, p. 164

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

The Problem is itself a Solution Every question or problem is a chalenge to your mind. Such challenges are always taken up by the mind, which tries to meet them as its natural duty. T here is a well-known saying: ‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’ An equally well-known saying is: ‘Where there is a will there is a way.’ These sayings are based on the potential of the human mind. And every individual mind has great potential. When the mind faces some problem, it is in its nature to try to find some solution to it, unless you artificially put a stop to your thinking processes. Once, on a visit to a city in the UK, I happened to meet a young Arab who told me that he had completed his master’s degree and had registered his name for a doctorate. I was very happy to hear this and I prayed for his success. I am a great advocate of education. I always say that education is a must for all kinds of progress, both theoretical and practical. But when I visited the same city a few years later, I happened to meet this young Arab again and he told me that he had stopped working on his doctorate. I was very disturbed and asked him why. He said he had recently married an Arab lady, who had no knowledge of the English language, so he had

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