SPIRIT OF ISLAM MARCH 2O18

19 Spirit of Islam Issue 63 March 2018 activate your mind. It will open up new windows that were hitherto closed. Your failure will spur you on to work in a more effective way and to attain a resounding success. Thus, initial failure can often be a blessing in disguise. NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES According to the law of nature, there is always a positive aspect of every negative experience. The only condition is that one should not become negative or succumb to despair. Life is full of unpleasant experiences. There is no escaping them. But negative experiences are not evil phenomena. They are in fact a blessing, a kind of intellectual challenge. In such situations, it is better to wait rather than opt for a reactive approach. If you save yourself from becoming the victim of negative experience and do just one thing, that is, let nature take its own course, it would serve as a positive factor for your mind. It will certainly increase your thinking capacity and unfold your intellectual treasure. The only fit response when you find yourself in a negative situation with others is to forget the unpleasant external experience and on your own, take a fresh decision to improve your ability. Very soon you will find that you have gained more than what you had lost. EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY Every dark night is a temporary phase in this world and the same is true of human difficulties. Every human difficulty is temporary in nature. Every difficulty is bound to disappear after some time. It is a law of nature that no difficulty goes on forever. So, you have to feed this simple formula into your thinking, ‘It is all but temporary’. Optimism should be the key word. Optimism means knowing that one will eventually be rescued; that the waiting period will only be temporary in nature. The only thing that can create a serious problem is for you to lose your patience or to lose hope or to forget that the situation is temporary. When you save yourself from being upset, you are in a better position to keep your energy intact, to keep yourself from being a victim of frustration, for frustration is certainly a disastrous frame of mind to be in. At every point in life there are serious difficulties on the home front, the social front, the national front and the international front. The simple formula for facing these difficulties successfully is to think that, just like the human being, one’s problems also are only for a limited period of time. Moreover, difficulty has a plus point. Difficulty unfolds your hidden qualities; it is a boon rather than an evil. In fact, difficulty is only a state of mind. It is the mind where difficulties are created and