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Make Yourself Eligible, Don’t Make Demands

This situation is completely against the law of nature.
In such a situation, the biases or discrimination that
Muslims complain about are actually in accordance
with divine laws, and not, as they allege, a result of
discrimination by perceived oppressors.
God has created this world. In this world, whatever
God wants, happens. God has made water to quench
thirst. He has made petrol so that people can use it as
fuel for vehicles. And so, your success lies in availing
of God’s bounties in the appropriate manner—by using
water for quenching your thirst, and using petrol for
your car, for instance. But, if you behave contrary to
this and try to quench your thirst by drinking petrol or
try to drive your car on water, you are, needless to say,
bound to fail!

God has made this world as a world of competition.
Here, everyone enjoys freedom of choice. Everyone is
trying to move ahead, through hard work and skill.
This principle of competition has been established by
God Himself. You simply cannot destroy it. And so,
you have just one choice: and that is that in the field
of competition, you need to prove your capability and
win your place. If you want that the world should stop
functioning on the basis of competition, and that,
instead, it should start running on the basis of your
making demands on others, you are living in a fool’s
paradise, because this can never happen. If you want to
lead your life by simply protesting and demonstrating
against others and demanding things for yourself, you
will have to make a different world of your own other

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