Look Before you Leap
Al-Risala (English), September 1985, p. 6
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
Look Before you Leap
1985 9 September 6 Look Before you Leap (181) In a daring escape from the Sydney (Australia) jail, a prisoner climbed underneath the hood of a truck. At the truck’s next step, he clambered out and found himself in the yard of another prison 6.5 kilometers from the first (UPI).
The obsession with the thought of managing an escape from the prison’s miserable life so dominated his mind that when he saw a truck passing by he took it far granted that it would release him from his confinement.
This goes to show how the steps we take sometimes lead us further away from our destination, or simply lead us nowhere at all.
To turn life’s journey into a success, a traveler must find the right conveyance. In this world, everyone requires some means or conveyance, so to speak, to achieve his goal. But it is necessary for one to inquire into the destination before one boards the conveyance. Leaps at random do not serve the purpose. If one misses the right ‘conveyance’ one is likely to meet the fate of the Australian prisoner – arriving at one jail from another.

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