Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Shock A Blessing in Disguise November 01, 2009

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Mustadarak al-Hakim, Hadith no. 8231
Quran 74:43 · Al-Muddaththir
Quran 31:27 · Luqman
Quran 67:3 · Al-Mulk
Quran 67:3 · Al-Mulk
Musnad al-Darmi, Hadith no. 675
Quran 107:4 · Al-Ma'un
Sharh Aqeedah al-Tahawiyah, p. 120
Mustadarak al-Hakim, Hadith no. 8231
Quran 48:4 · Al-Fath
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Great heroes justify their great mistakes
“Great heroes make great mistakes”
1 min 13 sec
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Living only for yourself is narcissism, not self-respect
“Some people live entirely inside themselves”
2 min 4 sec
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Prophets suffered most, so hardship must be positive
“People open de-stressing schools — but does it work?”
23 sec
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Realizing he too is being tested and written
“Am I not the one this is written about?”
1 min 48 sec
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Pain as an intellectual booster, like a volleyball spike
“Pain and stress are an intellectual booster”
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Stress is a positive word wrongly named tension
“Tension is nothing — stress is a booster”
2 min 15 sec
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As a child he never spent his fair money
“My mother put money in my pocket at the fair”
2 min 19 sec
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Why frozen water bursts pipes in cold winters
“Why do pipes burst when water freezes?”
3 min 50 sec
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Water bursts its container, icebergs expand freely
“Why does frozen water burst pipes but not icebergs?”
2 min 16 sec
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Losing a huge Delhi plot to bad advice
“We bought land ten times bigger than we have now”
3 min 57 sec
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Losing land in Delhi, becoming like an iceberg
“We bought a huge plot in Delhi on bad advice”
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Tension is nothing, it's a blessing in disguise
“Tension is nothing, it's a blessing in disguise”
2 min 38 sec
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A lifetime of shocks shaped his writing career
“The biggest shock: my father died when I was five”
35 sec
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Hazrat Umar's prayer: send me my faults
“Bless him who gifts me my own faults”
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Arrogance is the biggest block to growth
“The biggest bad thing is living in yourself”
2 min 10 sec
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Buddha's milkman parable about an already-full mind
“I already gave you knowledge, said the Buddha”
2 min 56 sec
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Hospital accident reveals self rejects not-self
“In the hospital, I couldn't even hold a pen”
5 min 14 sec
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Hospital accident becomes a lesson in positive thinking
“I was in the hospital, unable to hold a pen”
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Body rejects a transplanted self, not the self
“Self will not accept what is not self”
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No development happens after death
“After death, there is no more development”
5 min 45 sec
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Death ends development — use life to prepare
“After death, there is no more development, so use this life”
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This world is for preparation, not achievement
“This world is not for attaining, it's for preparing”
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DNA holds everything except your death date
“Everything is written in your DNA except one thing”
3 min 48 sec
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Explaining hell as self-inflicted spiritual blindness
“What is hell? It is not a mysterious place”
2 min 53 sec
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How you react to criticism reveals your ego
“How do you feel when someone criticizes you?”
5 min 13 sec
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Why the Prophet kissed the Black Stone
“Why did the Prophet kiss the Black Stone?”
5 min 40 sec
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The difference between empty ritual and true prayer
“Prayer without its spirit brings nothing, not even paradise”