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EASE ALWAYS COMES AFTER HARDSHIP

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By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Ease Always Comes After Hardship ~ 261 ~ EASE ALWAYS COMES AFTER HARDSHIP Anyone who has experienced a dust or sand storm in desert regions will know how traumatic this can be. There does not appear to be anything good about the scorching, blinding winds. But Soviet meteorologists have made investigations, in the Karakoram desert into the properties of dust storms and found that they are nature’s way of controlling extreme climates. The strong winds raise the dust up to form a screen in the atmosphere, guarding the earth from the intensity of the sun’s heat. The surface of the desert, scalded by the summer sun, is considerably cooled when it erupts in a dust storm. Sometimes the resultant change of temperature can be felt, say, in America and the Arctic, far afield as these areas are from Arabia, and Central Asia. Such is the order of nature. In this world just as ease always follows hardship, so fruitful results come only from arduous, painstaking processes. This is the way nature works, and from it we can see how we should live on earth. We should be prepared for a period of hard struggle before we can expect to

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