A World of Competition

A World of Competition awaken people’s minds and enable them to turn their potential into reality. This is the natural way of progress and development. In this world of competition, any success story is a story of struggle. Everywhere there are examples of individuals born into poor families who took their poverty as a great incentive, and jumping into the world of struggle and hard labour produced miraculous results. There are many instances of people who were born in poverty, who inherited nothing themselves, but who made their respective fortunes and left great wealth for their progeny and relatives. It is a matter of dignity that man has freedom of choice and by exercising his freedom, he can achieve all kinds of success. Our world is a world of activity. The whole universe is active day and night, and such activity is likewise required of man. Other entities of the universe are compelled by the law of nature to be active, but man has been given the freedom to be active or to remain idle as he pleases. So whenever man is active, it is as a result of his own volition; man is free and able to plan his life on his own. It is a matter of dignity that man has freedom of choice and by exercising his freedom, he can achieve all kinds of success. This is a great honour conferred upon man by God and is referred to thus in the Quran: “We have honoured the children of Adam.” (17:70) What people generally call suffering in human life is not so much suffering as being beset by some kind of problem; but the majority of problems in human life are temporary, because man has the capacity to overcome them; he can turn his minus points into plus points; extract success from failure; and start a new beginning from what appears to be an end.