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The Problem is itself a Solution

Every question or problem is a challenge to your mind. Such
challenges are always taken up by the mind, which tries to
meet them as its natural duty.

here is a well-known saying: ‘Necessity is the mother
Tof invention.’ An equally well-known saying is:
‘Where there is a will there is a way.’ These sayings are
based on the potential of the human mind. And every
individual mind has great potential. When the mind
faces some problem, it is in its nature to try to find
some solution to it, unless you artificially put a stop to
your thinking processes.
Once, on a visit to a city in the UK, I happened to
meet a young Arab who told me that he had completed
his master’s degree and had registered his name for a
doctorate. I was very happy to hear this and I prayed for
his success. I am a great advocate of education. I always
say that education is a must for all kinds of progress,
both theoretical and practical. But when I visited the
same city a few years later, I happened to meet this young
Arab again and he told me that he had stopped working
on his doctorate. I was very disturbed and asked him
why. He said he had recently married an Arab lady, who
had no knowledge of the English language, so he had

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