Just the
other day an acquaintance came to meet me. He was young but appeared to be low
in spirit.
The vagaries
of time had made him look old and frail.
When I
asked him about his well being , he told
me that he is jobless and hence disappointed.
I
reminded him that being jobless doesn't
necessarily mean being hopeless.
I gave him
a pep talk . I realized that it ignited hope in him.
I told him
there is no need to lose sleep over such trivial issues. To get great success
in life one has to leave behind small one.
You can not go to greater success without leaving
the smaller one. See, earlier you were
enjoying smaller ease and now God wants
you to enjoy the greater one. Saying so, I recited him a couplet of Hafiz Shirazi , the great Persian poet.
Mush kile
neest ke aasan na showad
Mard bayad ke harasan na showad
Surely, no
trouble is without ease, so man should never be disappointed.
My
recitation brought him a great smile. Perhaps it was for the first time he had smiled after being jobless.
My recitation ignited him with life and energy. Now he was looking full of
energy, talking entirely in a different ton.
As a matter
of fact , unemployment was not his
problem. His problem was hopelessness
and that had made him look weak and frail.
I had
provided him no job, no money, but only a few encouraging words and those were
enough to change him.
Wa basheroo
wala tu'nafferoo.
{Give ease
and trouble not. Give good news and hate not not}
Qur'an says
“indeed, there is ease with hardship. Most certainly, there is ease with
hardship”.
کوئی تبصرے نہیں:
ایک تبصرہ شائع کریں