Spirit of Islam · WHEN PLANS FAIL

WHEN PLANS FAIL

Spirit of Islam, January 2021, p. 39

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.

out of it in just a few hellish minutes. All three pilots and at least 67 spectators were killed and 346 people were injured including many children. At first, many of the spectators did not know what had happened. One of them said “I thought it was just some kind of special effect.” There is an element of surprise and risk lurking at us on every corner. However well prepared we are, we cannot always be content that everything will unfold as planned. Our plans are often at odds with the plans of others. Then there is the Supreme Planner. A person should take into account all these aspects before venturing out, and he should know that he can only plan and propose, it is God who will dispose. o To utter the three words ‘I was wrong’ is so difficult that in the entire history, very few people have actually brought themselves to utter them.

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