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Make Yourself Eligible, Don’t Make Demands

area of research where high-quality books are being
written in Urdu, books that people think that if they
do not read, they will not be able to get a complete
and proper understanding of their subject of interest.
In any discipline, be it philosophy, history, sociology
or technology or whatever, there are no books in Urdu
which are impossible to ignore if one wants to gain such
an understanding. In a climate of such utter intellectual
poverty, the ‘inheritors’ of Urdu themselves cannot give
it adequate importance, leave alone others. And so, to
expect others to give it importance is simply wishful
thinking.
According to the Quranic verse cited earlier (13:17),
the key to a successful life in this world is to be beneficial
to others. Here, the giver receives. Here, success comes
through proving oneself capable, not through making
demands, protesting and stirring up a big hue and
cry. This principle, according to which the world
functions, has been devised by God, the Creator of the
world. People who refuse to accept this God-ordained
principle, on the basis of which His world runs, can
make an imaginary world of their own if they want to.
They need to remember, however, that in this world,
success can only be had by abiding by God’s will, not by
following their own.

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