NIGHTLY PREPARATION FOR A MIGHTY TASK

Nightly Preparation for a Mighty Task ~ 193 ~ and will soon be in a position to represent it in the world. This applies to worldly pursuits also. Almost all the individuals who have reached great heights in any field have been those who were willing to stay awake at night in order to gain proficiency in it. The case of Severiano Ballesteros, the Spanish golfer, provides apt illustration of this point. Ballesteros is now indisputably one of the greatest golfers in the world and has won millions of dollars in numerous victories in tournaments on both sides of the Atlantic. There was a time, however, when he was just a poor caddy at Pedereda in Spain. He once told Frank Keating of the Guardian newspaper how he used to get up at night to hit a 100 or so balls “at the moon.” He could not see them—”but I can tell how good and straight I hit them by the feel in hands and the sand.” To become a true Muslim is to become a personification of Islam in the eyes of the world; it is to become so associated with Islam that one is fit to carry its message to far corner of the globe. This requires intense preparation, which must be