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Quranic Wisdom

benefit you. It will enable you to make a reassessment of the
whole matter, and that will in turn enable you to re-plan your
strategy. And finally it will enable you—when you have missed the
first train—to board the next one.
Man has certain limitations. You may work out a plan with
good intentions but, due to miscalculation, you fail to achieve
your target. This kind of failure can be forgiven; your excuse
on this occasion will be quite acceptable. You can say that your
assessment had not been realistic, and that that was why you
failed to achieve your target.
But this is not the end of the matter. If this happens, you have
to say that you were wrong. Accepting the mistake is the best way
out of the difficulty, but if you try to find some scapegoat and try
to put all the blame on that supposed scapegoat, it will not work.

If you accept your mistake in such a situation, it
will actually benefit you. It will enable you to make
a reassessment of the whole matter, and that will in
turn enable you to re-plan your strategy.

This kind of explanation is bound to boomerang. If you are
facing such a situation, do not try to blame others. Doing so is
simply a waste of time, because there is no taker for it. So, as
soon as you discover that you have made a mistake, accept it in
terms of its consequences; and do so immediately. You have to
understand that you may have lost the first chance but that now
there is time to avail of a second chance. But success in availing
of this second chance depends solely upon your acceptance of
your own mistake and not putting the blame on other people.

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