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Success is assured

Success is assured

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 Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. And achieving success and trying. And he said, well, even after trying, if you are not successful, what shall you do? So I said to him, I say to you, that after trying, not being successful is not possible. It is not an option. Because Allah SWT said, وَأَلْلَيْسَ لِلْإِنسَانِ إِلَّا مَسَعَ Allah SWT said, there is nothing for a human being, for a person, except that which he works for. Which means that if he works for it, he will get it. The option that he worked for it, he tried, but he failed, does not exist. Allah did not say that some people will try and fail, some people will try and succeed. No. Allah said, for a person is only that which he tries for. Which means, if he tries, he will get it. If he does not try, he will not get it. Now this is a very important thing to keep in mind. And not get discouraged. When you are working hard, and you seem to be working for a long time, and you find that, you know, you are not achieving your results, it is not something to lose hope. It is only to understand that maybe, either my way, what I am doing, the method is not the best method, or I have not put in enough time. If you see the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks about the 10,000 hour rule, and he says the difference between somebody who has worked 6,000 hours on something, and 8,000 hours on something, and 10,000 hours on something, the difference is, the difference in magnitude is literally transformation. It is not a linear progression, but it is something which is, you know, multiples of what between 6 and 8, and 6 and 10. It is like multiples of that. So, think about it like this. This is an example which I have given many times before. Those of you who listen regularly, you will remember this. Example I give is that of somebody who has gone to, say for example, you go to a kirana store, you go to a grain store, you go to a provision store, and you ask him to give you, say, 20 kilograms of wheat, or 20 kilograms of rice. So, he puts, he takes the scale, you know, the regular balance. He puts a 20 kilogram weight in, and he has to weigh in, like, one pan, and as soon as he does that, that pan descends to the countertop, and the other pan is up in the air. Then he takes a scoop, and he starts putting in the rice or the wheat into the other pan, which is usually shaped like a kind of bucket to hold the grain. And he keeps pouring the grain in, he keeps putting the grain in. And say, for example, now he's putting in 2 kilos, 5 kilos, 6 kilos, 10 kilos, 15 kilos, 17, 18 kilos, 19 kilos. What do you see in the position of the two pans? You will see there is no change in the position of the two pans. The pan with the weight is still sitting firmly on the countertop, and the pan with the rice in it is up in the air. Now, have you ever, at a stage like this, which you would have seen if you go to any store, this is something that you will see. Has it ever happened to you that the salesperson turns around and says to you, you know what, I don't think this is going to work. As you can see, I'm working hard. As you can see, I'm working consistently. As you can see, I've been working continuously. I've not slacked off. I've not stopped doing my work. But as you can see also that nothing is happening. So I think maybe you should go somewhere else. Try some other store, because it is not possible to weigh 20 kilograms of wheat or rice in this store. Has this ever happened to you? It will never happen to you, because if the man says that, you will just laugh, because you will say, this is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. What do you mean it's not possible? What's not possible? You have a 20 kilogram weight in one pan, and all you need to do is to put 20 kilograms of rice in the other pan. And if the pan is not descending, if the other pan is still not descending to the countertop, if it is still up in the air, just simply means
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