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What Purpose Demands

English book, p. 150

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

What Khushwant Singh did in this case is what we call “preference.” The principle of preference is essential for any purposeful person. If you have a goal in front of you, you must end your interest in everything other than that goal. You need to turn your attention away from every other direction and focus only on your purpose. This is a necessary condition for success; without it, no major achievement can be gained in today’s world. To gain one thing, you must give up another. Without giving up what needs to be sacrificed, you will not gain what you truly desire.

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