Certain Success
Al-Risala (English), January 1990, p. 15
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.
Certain Success
1990 1 January 15 Certain Success (317) “One who has said his morning prayer finds the guarantee of God.”
I used to watch an idolater worshipping idols made of stones daily in the morning before opening his shop. And he was a successful shopkeeper.
One day I asked him the reason for his daily worship of the idols before starting his business. He replied that they were our gods. “When we have worshipped them we are assured of our success through their help. These idols are a source of confidence for us.”
The only great secret of success is confidence. If a person manages to find this source of confidence, even if it is only through unreal gods, he can succeed in this world. This goes to show that if someone believed in the real God, and this belief gave him the necessary confidence, his success would be all the greater.
A hadith goes: “One who has said his morning prayer finds the guarantee of God.” It is as if the morning prayer brings man to the guardianship of God. Then it is God’s responsibility to protect man on all occasions of crises and to lead man to success by extending all His help to him.
Man rests at night. Then when morning approaches, he goes out to work after due preparation. Now if man can bring himself to have full conviction in God, when he gets up in the morning and says his prayers before going out, he will enter the field of life with full confidence. He will be convinced in his heart of hearts that success awaits him. There is just no question of failure.
One who enters the arena of life with this confidence will work hard with all his strength. He will pursue even the most difficult path with the conviction that he is awaited by certain success.
Nothing but success can await such a man in this world.
