There are no quick results. Someone’s provision may be wide, and he may get rich in his youth. But this does…

There are no quick results. Someone’s provision may be wide, and he may get rich in his youth. But this does not mean that money will keep flowing to him in this way all his life. A person who has cast out of his heart the idea — more precisely, the temptation — that he will achieve quick results becomes calm. A child is born in 9 months and 9 days. A young man becomes ready for life physically and mentally at 20. A person reaches maturity at 40. Fruits too need time to ripen. Whatever is finished quickly is unnatural. It is advisable for young people to say not “I will get quick results,” but “If I work honestly, endure hardships, am patient and do not stop, I will achieve solid and certain results.” That result may perhaps take 10, perhaps 20 years. If someone comes out and tells you, “I will tell you five conditions for achieving quick results; if you fulfill them, you will achieve results,” he is a liar. He wants to make a living off your attention — to increase his view count, to hunt you and get hold of your money, but in return you will find nothing. All that will remain is your bosom full of empty nuts and him running off with the empty cart. The scholars of tafsir say that within God’s creating the heavens and the earth in six days lies a lesson for His servants in not hurrying and in composure. God, it turns out, does not hurry. Why should a human hurry? It is Satan who hurries. Is calling people to hurry not the same as saying, “Imitate Satan”? Choose a field, acquire knowledge without laziness, gain skill, do not look at the young cockerel that hatched from the egg yesterday and is crowing fit to tear its vocal cords; make a plan for at least 20 years: knowledge, skill, profession, mastery; marriage, a car, a house, a stable income, reliable savings and so on. Not saying, “I will earn it today and tomorrow go and blow it on a trip to a foreign country,” but for a quiet life, a peaceful heart, a life of well-being. Run from the one who makes big promises; he is surely deceiving you. The one who makes big promises is a swindler.

Akrom MALIK