A Great Lesson of Life from One of the Smallest Creatures of Allah swt
At one point the ant had to negotiate a crack in the concrete about 10mm wide.
After some time the ant finally reached its destination - a flower bed at
the end of the terrace and a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home.
Of course it couldn't. so the ant, after all this trouble and execrising great ingenuity,
The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its epic journey
and in the end the feather was nothing more than a burden.
The Ant
One morning I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry a huge feather
cross my back terrace.
One morning I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry a huge feather
cross my back terrace.
Several times it was confronted by obstacles in its
path and after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detour.
path and after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detour.
At one point the ant had to negotiate a crack in the concrete about 10mm wide.
After brief contemplation the ant laid the feather over the crack,
walked across it and picked up the feather on the other side then continued on its way.
walked across it and picked up the feather on the other side then continued on its way.
I was fascinated by the ingenuity of this ant, one of God's smallest creatures.
It served to reinforce the miracle of creation.
Here was a minute insect, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to reason,
explore, discover and overcome.
explore, discover and overcome.
But this ant, like the two-leggedco-residents of this planet, also share human failings.
After some time the ant finally reached its destination - a flower bed at
the end of the terrace and a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home.
And it was here that the ant finally met its match.
How could that large feather possibly fit down small hole?
Of course it couldn't. so the ant, after all this trouble and execrising great ingenuity,
overcoming problems all along the way, just abandoned the feather and went home.
The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its epic journey
and in the end the feather was nothing more than a burden.
Isn't OUR LIFE like that?
We worry about our family, we worry about money or the lack of it,
We worry about our family, we worry about money or the lack of it,
we worry about work, about where we live, about all sorts of things.
These are all burdens - the things we pick up along life's path and lug them around the
obstacles and over the crevasses that life will bring,
obstacles and over the crevasses that life will bring,
only to find that at the destination they are useless and we can't take them with
US...............
US...............
,Lord McCauley
in his speech of Feb 2,1835,
British Parliament
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"I have traveled across the length and breadth of Indiaand I have not seen one person who is a beggar or who is a thief.
Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values & people of such caliber,
that I do not think we would ever conquer this country,
unless we break the very backbone of this nation,
which is her spiritual and cultural heritage.
And, therefore, I propose that
we replace her old and ancient Education system & her Culture.
For if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own,
they will lose their self-esteem,their native self-culture
And one day they will become what we want them,
A TRULY DOMINATED NATION".
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