Deception of Greatness

Deception of Greatness If a poor man has problems, a rich man has problems, too. If an unemployed person has problems, so, too, does a powerful man. In this world that has been made as a testing-ground, no one at all is exempt from problems. Given this, what you should do is to face the problems that you are confronted with and carry on with your onward journey. Your sole concern should be to acquire God’s pleasure, and not to become the master of a problem-free life, because that is simply not possible before the life Hereafter. Deception of Greatness A ir Marshal Abdul Latif had 40 years of experience of flying planes. In August 1981, he flew a Russian-made MIG-25 in order to test it. After flying for half an hour, he landed. When he stepped out of the plane, he remarked: The flight made even the Himalaya’s look small! (The Times of India, August 26, 1981) When a plane travelling at a speed faster than sound flies over the Himalayas, a passenger sitting inside will naturally see the Himalayas as small and might develop strange assumptions about his own supposed greatness. But this misunderstanding is wiped off if the plane crashes against a Himalayan peak. Even a slight brush against a mountain will immediately cause the plane to go up in flames, reducing it and all the passengers inside to ashes in a trice. In this world, when someone acquires some perceived greatness, he quickly falls prey to misunderstandings about