Issues and Counsel
(Syed Manazir-ul-Haq, Karachi)
Some People are confined into
severe confusion, worry, or scared on indulging any certain difficult or vital
circumstances. Contrary to this some persons lonely on account of their
intellectual and physical abilities stand up to face these circumstances.
Besides these two kinds of people a group of such people is also existed who
neither hit by confusion nor approach to proud but make a concise plan by using
others’ abilities and intellectual and act upon their advice after making
self-struggles. The first group of aforesaid individuals who hit by confusion in
the rainy days is consisted courage-less, fled-away and intrinsic-weak
individuals. The people who have courage to face the stern problems and want to
solve them in isolated way also do not want to take any advice from any quarters
are called self-admirers and self-opinion. The third groups who in their issues
and problems having taken the counsel and consultation of others face them
bravely and patiently with efforts certainly are deserved to be called wise and
successful.
Not a single person in the world who ever is not confined by issues, problems
and hardships in his life. When the life is not free of them in any
circumstances so why they are not accepted by courage and patience. Confusion,
fear and fled-swaying approach are childish attitudes. To visualize them the
intellectuals lose the abilities of contemplation and the human beings grow
their hardships on account of haste and waste as well as on confused decision.
Also negative effects begin to develop on their mental and physical approach
which is an irreparable loss. It must be kept in mind that human beings are not
totally independent and cannot remain in isolation as they need of others’ help
from birth to death. Our Lord Allah is absolutely self-sufficient and
independent – we need His help from birth to death and even after death but He
does not need any help from any quarters. If we think deeply it will come to our
knowledge that we pray Him for our own benefit and interest because actually He
does not need any prayers and praises of human beings.
In this context it is also not an appropriate attitude that being considered
perfect individuals we should stand up to face the hardships lonely. Self-liking
attitude in which man visualizes himself the best and above all at last confines
him into a dilemma. The counsel or guidance opens the closed windows of
intellectual because it is established fact that nobody in the world who has
knowledge and conscious of all things and all matters. Sometimes a well renowned
intellectual may indulge into loss by avoiding a silly matter. He may confine
himself into such issues and hardships the correct solution of which is beyond
to his access of intellectual and comprehension. Therefore the person who trusts
in his own comprehension and avoids to others’ counsel he oppresses himself
unknowingly and this self-liking attitude may involve him into a dangerous
position in any certain stage.
The individuals who take support and counseling of sincere, humanitarian and
faithful people when they face any hardships always succeed in the world because
they not only act upon their good advices but also make truthful attempts
patiently to solve the problems. Their power of thinking and strength does not
waste by confusion and fear. Having taken the counsel of well aware and wise
people they accelerate their power of thinking many-fold. When any heavy stone
is lifted with the support of a few people it is felt lighter and with this act
of lifting energy and costly time both are saved.