Making Concessions to Circumstances
On July 19, 1981, the Delhi-Ahmedabad mail left the station as usual at the scheduled time. But it was delayed by forty minutes at the Mahsanah station. When the train moved off from the Mahsanah station, the driver drove the train faster than usual so that it would reach Ahmedabad at the scheduled time. When the train was 2 kilometers away from Dangarwa, the driver saw that a few fishplates were missing on the railway track. He immediately tried to stop the train to save it from any accident, but the fast moving train could not be controlled by sudden braking. The engine and the 12 coaches attached to it slipped from the rails and then the whole train came off the track and plunged into a ditch at the side. Many people died and many were injured.
The lesson in this incident is that by ignoring the situation you cannot start driving fast in your life, because you are not the only one in this world. There are many others. You are not the only active one. Others are active too. In this world, only that individual’s journey will be successful who tries to understand the external environment and lead his life by making concessions to it. The same holds true for nations. If this wise course is not followed, then any untoward incident may take place on the journey and will destroy all our plans.
In the present time, Muslims have taken great kinds of initiatives but all of them have failed. The explanation for this failure is only one: “Someone’s conspiracy made their plans go awry.” But this excuse is only evidence of not making proper concessions to the situations.
People unthinkingly drive their vehicles along the road with no inkling of the person who has secretly planned to remove the “fishplates” so as to cause the vehicle to run right off the road.
The “vehicle” might be yours, but the “road” on which you have to drive your vehicle is not. However bitter this reality might be, it is a fact, and it is impossible for any individual to achieve success in this world by ignoring it.
Those people who, by ignoring this reality, drive their vehicles on the road of the world can never reach their destination. All that is destined for them in this world is failure due to their own faulty thinking. They will then lament their fate as being the result of some conspiracy on the part of others.
