Safe Harbour On Both Sides
English book, p. 309
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Victory in Defeat speed will lead to a long delay. Your arms and legs will break, and instead of reaching your destination, you’ll be taken to the hospital and spend months in recovery. A man wanted to grow a mango tree in his courtyard. He thought, “If I plant a small mango sapling, it will take at least ten years to grow.” There was already a five-year-old mango tree in his garden. He made a plan to dig it up and replant it in the courtyard. He was happy that this way, he would save five years of waiting, and in just a few years, the tree would bear fruit. He hired workers to dig up the tree. After hours of careful effort, they removed it and replanted it in the courtyard. But the very next day, its leaves started to wither. Within a few weeks, instead of a lush tree, there was only a dry stump in the yard. Another man wanted to earn money. He opened a grocery shop and ran it for a year. When he saw that the business wasn’t picking up quickly, he decided to start a clothing store. After a year, he again felt dissatisfied and switched to selling stationery. Then, within another year, he changed to a shoe shop. In this way, he kept changing his line of work again and again—and eventually ended up discouraged and unsuccessful. The reason for his failure was that he didn’t understand a simple truth: success in any work takes time. It’s not possible to open a shop one day and see it succeed the very next day. The time he spent trying different things could

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