TUNNEL STRATEGY VERSUS SURFACE STRATEGY — Choose Success Over Failure

opted for underground militancy? This is because they are unaware of the great value of intellectual exchange. Peaceful exchange has the capacity to conquer the whole world. Through peace and harmony Muslims can achieve everything they need for their advancement. But they are full of hatred and negativity and due to this obsession they are unable to understand the uselessness of their activities. They prefer suicide while the option for life is quite open to them. Human beings have always lived in one or the other obsession. If a person’s obsession is positive, he will opt for a positive goal, however if his obsession is negative, he will set for himself a negative goal. The first goal is achievable and is also a life-giving choice. On the contrary, the second is an unachievable goal. Those who opt for the second goal will gain nothing in the end except for frustration and failure. Through peace and harmony Muslims can achieve everything they need for their advancement. According to a Hadith: ‘Love for something makes you blind.’ (Abu Dawud) Here, “love” means obsession. Those Muslims who are engaged in the tunnel strategy are the worst case of this Hadith. They have set a negative goal for themselves. For some reason, this goal has become their obsession, and this obsession has made them blind. Muslims, free yourself of this obsession. Why do you prefer the underground tunnel, when the whole world is open to you? o Anathema to Progress Psychological studies show that situations always being propitious kills the spirit of struggle. The history of progress tells us that no individual or nation has ever made progress in favourable conditions.