Hard Working: The Only Option

far more than they could ever have done here. When such a course may be taken, why weep and wail over the paucity of posts available in government service? If Muslims earnestly want to remove their economic backwardness, there is only one solution, and that is hard work. They should work hard in the fields of education, business and industry, and with greater preparation, must come to grips with the industrial age, which they have yet to enter. They must fully appreciate that if a nation is left behind in life’s journey, there is only one way to compensate for this, and that is to put in extra hard work. For any such nation the choice is not between hard work and gaining concessions but between hard work and destruction. That is the law of nature, and the nature’s laws are immutable. The demand for reservations and concessions is like asking the other group to keep their next generations from heading towards progress until such times as we (the Muslims) pull abreast of them and become their equals. You could not expect such a sacrifice even from your own real brother. Then how could you expect it from the members of any other community? Muslims ought, therefore, to abandon the path of complaint and confrontation. They must exclude these words from their vocabulary, and should enter wholeheartedly, and with courage and conviction, into the modern fields of life. As soon as they are willing to do so, they will find a hundred doors opening up to them, and each of these doors will be far bigger and wider than the door of the government services. □