Safe Harbour On Both Sides

capital was released, and now he was planning to start a new business. A Western thinker once said: “The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time.” Indeed, the highest duty of a human being is to worship God. He is our Creator and Sustainer. He provides everything we need, and therefore, He alone deserves our greatest respect—which is called worship. Along with worship, another sacred responsibility is to respect time. Time is the most valuable asset a person has in this world. Every action we take happens within the boundary of time. Once time runs out, the opportunity to act disappears with it. This is why we must never waste time. To waste time is to lose the most precious thing we possess. Time will not wait for us. It moves forward—and once gone, it never returns. As the poet simply put it: “Gaya waqt phir haath aata nahi.” Time once lost never returns. Shakespeare, the famous English writer and poet, said: “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”