Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Judging one's capacity before accepting work

“Today I could understand the link between adversity, patience and Allah's reward. Most people make the mistake of overestimating themselves and as a result they fall into frustration. My question is: How to find out and judge before accepting any work whether the work is within one's capacity or beyond one's capacity?”Asked by Amanatullah, Lucknow

He answers at 42:07 in The Concept of Help —Maulana Wahiduddin Khan · 9 min 54 sec

His answer, in his own words
42:07
Today I could understand the link between adversity, patience and Allah reward. May Allah guide us to right path for attaining comfort in hereafter." Maulana, agla sawal bheja hai Lucknow se Amanatullah sahib ne. Unhon ne likha hai: "Maulana sahib, most people make the mistake of over estimating one self and as a result they fall in frustration. My question is how to find out or judge before accepting any work that whether the work is within one's capacity or beyond one's capacity. Please guide us in that."
43:00
main samajhta hoon ke hamare yaani is area mein jo log basta hain, jo musalman, un ki sab se bari, sab se bara disadvantage yeh tha ke un ko Iqbal mil gaya, jise khudhi ka falsafa bataya. Yeh nashe ka falsafa tha, khudhi ka. To Iqbal ne apna le liya. Khudhi, khudhi, khudhi, khudhi to ek tawakkun nazariya hai. Khudhi nahi, anti, anti khudhi. Self, anti self se taraqqiyan hoti hain. Isi liye Iqbal ki qaum kuch taraqqi nahi kar saki. Meri baat mein bohat so'n ko dhakka lage ga, bura bura maloom hoga. Lekin main isi liye kehta hoon ke mujhe koi lady, lady, lady nahi karna hai.
43:54
Mujhe koi ledaery ka shauq nahi hai. Main sachai ko bayan karne ke liye zinda hoon. Sachai musalmanon ko chahiye ke woh Iqbal ko chhoden. Jab tak Iqbal ko shehar mein rahen ge na, shehar mein tab tak taraqqi nahi kar sakte woh. Jab tak Iqbal ko jis masjid dekhiye, jis madrasay pe dekhiye, Iqbal ka ashaar parhe ja rahe hain. Bataiye, koi kaam hai? Iqbal ne to qaum ko yaani meethi, meethay zehar ki meethi goliyan di hain. Zehar ki meethi goliyan. To main jaanta hoon ke bohat se log ghussa, ghussa ho jayen ge. Lekin main chahta hoon ke yeh baat un ko bata doon marne se pehle, kyun ke hum sab ka saamna hone wala hai hajj, hajj ke maidan mein.
44:49
Aur India mein is se doori misguide karne wala koi nahi tha. Misguide karna isi ki ek cheez hai ke qoumiyat ke maamle mein saare musalman baqi bhi hain. Qoumiyat ka nazariya jo tha, us ke liye unhon ne negative baaten kahi hain. Isi liye zamanay ko pehchan nahi sake. Zamanay ko pehchan nahi sake. Aaj duniya mein ek hi qaum aisi hai jo zamanay ko pehchan nahi saki. Choti choti qaumon ne pehchan liya zamanay ko aur taraqqiyan keen. Lekin yeh musalmanon ki ajeeb haalat hai ke aisa shayar unhon ne paida kiya jis shayar ne un ko yaani sirf mis lead kiya.
45:46
Main jaanta hoon ke hazaron log mujh se ghussa ho jayen ge, lekin koi ghussa hota rahe. Mujhe to sachi baat karna hai. Sachi baat karni hai mujhe. Main, main, main manta hoon ke self thinking tawakkun hai. Sahi thinking hai, anti self thinking. Aap ke andar anti self thinking develop ho, us se aap taraqqi karen ge. Self thinking se aap kabhi taraqqi nahi kar sakte. Maulana, agla comment parhna chahen ge. Yeh bheja hai Maulana Yaqoob Umri ne Delhi se. Unhon ne likha hai: "Maulana, I agree with you hundred percent on the concept of helping other that you explained very well today.
46:34
Teaching wisdom is real help and giving money is killing their potential. Jazak Allah." Maulana, Maulana, agla comment aur sawal aaya hai Miss Samina ka Delhi se. Unhon ne likha hai: "Maulana, you are a blessing for my family. You are a blessing for my family and me, and I think my brother Khurram for that Allah use her khushi se un ko nawazay." Aise, I also want to thank Farida Apa and Naghma Apa for their support and encouragement to do translation work. i have a question: "last week i saw you giving your blessings to a girl who was apparently going through depression. these days so many people are going through stress and depression and are committing suicides. the reason vary from financial, personal and many more.
47:38
my daughter marvi's class mate, uh who was in second year, was going through depression and was taking therapy from psychologist. still he ended his life. all the batch mates are in extreme trauma as they were the ones to break open the door and take out his body, not hanging from the fan but from the cupboard. he was extremely good in studies and he had no financial issues, but the parents were in jharkhand and he was staying alone in a pg. my question is as parents and teachers, how can we help these students or people in our contact? because most of the time what they need is simply talking to someone to share their worries, anxieties and fears.
48:33
maulana sahib, please advise." dekhiye, main apna experience aap ko batata hoon. main gaya tha pakistan, kai saal pehle ki baat hai. to lahore ke airport par ek naujawan mujhe receive karne ke liye aaya aur kai log thay. to woh naujawan main pehchane pehchanta nahi tha. us ko main us ko arabi nazar se dekha to us ne kaha ke aap us ko pehchanta nahi honge lekin main aap ko janta hoon. to phir us ne apni story batai. us ne kaha ke main bohat zabardast depression ka shikar ho chuka tha. depression to yahan par koi hospital hai jo depression ka ilaj karta hai.
49:28
wahan woh daakhil kar diye gaye. to wahan par under treatment thay woh aur kuch faida nahi ho raha tha. to phir ek aadmi wahan mile un se, un ko meri kitab "raaz-e-hayat" de di. "raaz-e-hayat" to us ko unhon ne hospital mein parha. us ke baad doctor sahib ne kaha ke aap mujhe chutti de dijiye. unhon ne kaha kyun? unhon ne kaha bhai to acha ho gaya. kaha ke nahi, abhi to aap under treatment hain. kaha ke nahi, main acha ho gaya. is kitab ko parh kar woh bilkul theek ho gaye.
50:11
depression khatam ho gaya aur phir zindagi mein kaabil ho gaya. to logon ko paisa mat dijiye, madad mat kijiye. un ko wisdom dijiye. paisa dena un ke apni potential ko kill karna hai aur wisdom dena un ke potential ko jagana hai. main phir kahunga ke paisa dena logon ki potential ko kill karna hai aur wisdom dena logon ke wisdom ko potential ko jagana hai. yeh mera tajurba hai aur main bas kehta hoon ke hamare haan jo leader paida hui hai, woh zyada tar aisay log thay jinhon ne is raat ko jaana hi nahi.
51:13
is raat ko jaana hi nahi. unhon ne potential ko jagana yeh asal raaz hai. yeh jaana nahi hai. potential ko kill ko woh hai misguide karte rahay. to jin logon ko is maslay mein jaanna ho, meri kitab parhein. urdu mein "raaz-e-hayat" hai, english mein woh hai kya naam hai uska? "the secret of success". "the secret of success" english mein naam hai "the secret of success" aur urdu mein is ka naam hai "raaz-e-hayat". maulana kashmir se sheikh ahmed sheikh sahib ne sawal bheja hai. unhon ne likha hai: "in present era we see our young generation is less interested towards books, especially islamic literature.
All questions he answeredThe whole lecture, from this momentWatch on YouTube

Machine transcription. These are his recorded words, written down by software from the Urdu he speaks — so a line may carry a misheard word. Every timestamp above opens the video at that second: one tap and you can hear him say it. Quote it as speech, and link to the moment.