CAPABILITY AND ALERTNESS

Capability and Alertness ~ 124 ~ the time of appointment, he had given the secretary a copy of the book. “I took it from him and read it during the night, in order to familiarize myself with the thought of the person I was going to meet the next day.” Lenin was the founder of modern Russia. He was an extraordinarily gifted man. Two of his qualities- —capability and alertness—are illustrated in the above incident. He had studied so assiduously that he knew four different languages and was able to converse fluently in each one of them. Then so alert and on the ball was he that—despite his enormous preoccupation with affairs of state—he read the book of an unknown Indian at night, just so that he could have some prior knowledge of that person’s thought when he met him the next day. Lenin made every effort to cultivate this natural talent; he made the most of the opportunities that were provided him; that was how he rose to the ranks of triumphant world leaders. These two qualities—capability and alertness—are required for any kind of work. They are indispensable for the service of the Islamic cause,