THE QUESTION ABOUT COST

Maulana Farid al-Wahidi, who lives in Jeddah, shared a very meaningful saying in a meeting on November 1, 1991. He said:

“One who wants to conquer Mount Everest never counts the cost of his shoes.”

If your goal is small, you can achieve it with little effort. But if you set a big goal, you must also realize that a big goal demands a big price. A person who wants to achieve something great must be ready to pay that price. Great success is not anyone’s monopoly. Every person has the potential to achieve it. Yet we see that very few people achieve it. The reason is that they are not prepared to pay the price. In the market, you get little for a small price and much for a high price. This is also the law of life. In one sentence, the rule of life is: you get exactly as much as you give—neither less nor more.

Paying the price does not mean fighting or shedding blood. Nor is it only about money. The real price is psychological. The highest cost in this world is what you pay on the level of the mind. This means bearing discomfort, staying calm despite provocation, not responding to people’s bad behaviour with rudeness, keeping up courage in times of despair, holding on to hope even in loss, and seeing a ray of light in the darkest situations.

The greatest sacrifice is when anger and the fire of revenge burn within a person, yet he extinguishes them in his own heart. It is when a person suffers hurt from someone but does not think ill of them. It is when one faces negative situations yet remains firm in positive thinking. To rise above circumstances, instead of being trapped within them—that is the real price of success.