Impartiality: The Secret of Success
English book, p. 270
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
It is possible that the new work may prove to be more profitable. If someone takes away your rights and a dispute begins, and even after several years you fail to have your rights restored, then change your strategy. Put your trust in hard work. It is entirely possible that by working hard you will achieve what you failed to achieve by asking for help from others. Many problems in life arise due to narrow-mindedness. If one is broadminded then one will know that to “travel” here, many vehicles are available. What one could not achieve by making demands could have been achieved by establishing good relations. Where one had failed to establish one’s rights through demands and protests, one could have reached one’s goal by treading the path of assiduity. Where one could not control others by displaying anger and becoming provoked one could have won hearts with patience. Sacrificing Oneself for Humanity It was the fourth of November, 1847, when a servant entered the room of his master, a Scottish doctor, to find him lying face-down on the floor alongside two of his colleagues. They appeared to have rolled down from their chairs. The servant thought that perhaps they had drunk too heavily, so he covered them up and quietly went away. But the facts were quite different. The men lying unconscious on the floor were Sir James Simpson (1811-1870) and his two assistants who had inhaled chloroform for the first time ever in order to experience its effects on the human body. Simpson was the youngest son of a poor baker. At the age of four, he began his education at a village school. As time went on he became so greatly interested in his studies that his father and six brothers agreed that sacrifices

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