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Breeze of Magic | Episode (13) | The happiness of success
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The dawn breeze.
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The dawn breeze.
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The joy of success.
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Success has a sweetness
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whose delight is known
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only to those who succeed.
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The more success is
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difficult to attain,
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and the more the path to it
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is filled with obstacles,
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the greater that delight becomes.
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That is why
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success is a human aspiration,
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for people love nothing more
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than to be
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successful.
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However, we must
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understand well
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that the joy of great success
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does not come
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except after traversing stages
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of fatigue, waiting, and pain.
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It is not
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easy to be successful
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without that.
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Quick,
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effortless success
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brings no sweetness to the soul.
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There are some people
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who are overcome by misery
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because they have not succeeded,
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so their souls ache,
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and they grieve
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deeply
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when they see others
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arrive while they have been cut off.
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Despair of succeeding
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grows within them
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once more
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on that path
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they have taken,
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and perhaps on the path
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of every success,
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until some of them utter
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words of despair,
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such as saying:
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"If I were a shroud merchant,
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no one would ever die."
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Or as another said:
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"If people knew what I know
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about the times,
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they would rejoice in nothing,
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nor would they marry or have children."
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So, to every wounded heart,
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every broken spirit,
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and every troubled soul on the path
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of success,
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I say:
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First,
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before you embark on a path
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of a specific success,
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you must understand your capabilities and your
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realistic circumstances,
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so that you may set out realistically.
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Think before you begin,
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and study your conditions
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and the conditions of your reality.
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A blind man should not compete
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in speed reading,
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nor should anyone look
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to go ice skating
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in Sudan.
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Second,
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know that the path to success
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requires from you
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a burning will
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that does not believe in lethargy,
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and constant movement
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that knows no stillness,
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and patience without impatience.
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The poet said:
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"I strove for glory
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while those who sought it
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had already reached it,
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and they endured its hardships.
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They struggled for glory
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until most of them grew weary,
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but glory was embraced
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by those who were faithful and
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patient.
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Do not think that glory
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is honey you can eat;
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you will never reach glory
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until you taste the bitterness of patience."
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Third,
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do not feel frustrated
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or lack self-confidence
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if you fail.
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Do not convince yourself that you are incapable
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of reaching your goal.
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Manage yourself well
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by believing that you can
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arrive, no matter how much you stumble,
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for this is one of the first
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steps of success.
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Fourth,
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repeat the attempt,
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continue to progress,
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and insist on reaching your goal.
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Mount the steed
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of perseverance.
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Learn from the child who begins
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to walk;
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he falls more often
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than he walks,
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yet he tries
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until his legs grow strong.
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And learn from the ant,
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as it continues
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to climb and fall,
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and climb and fall;
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do not despair
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until you reach the summit.
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In the hadith of the man who performed
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his prayer poorly,
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the man repeated the attempt,
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and the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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guided him in that
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until he perfected his prayer.
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Fifth,
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do not let mistakes
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hinder your path to success;
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rather, create success from them.
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From the rubble of mistakes,
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you will build the edifice of your success.
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It has been said:
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"Do not let obstacles
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stop your journey.
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If you face a wall,
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do not turn around
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to return disappointed;
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you must try to climb it,
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or pass through it,
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or even
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go around it."
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So, forget your failures
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on the path of success,
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for remembering that
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stumbling covers
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your soul with pain
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and hinders your continuity and progress.
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If you want to reach
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the desired goal,
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do not look back
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to count the number of times
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you failed;
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rather, move forward, forgetting
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the mistakes of the road.
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It has been said:
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"Learn to build a ladder
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from the stones you stumbled
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over."
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And it was said:
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"I move slowly,
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but I never go backward
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at all."
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And it was said:
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"We fall so that we may rise,
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and we fight battles to achieve a more magnificent victory,"
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just
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as we sleep
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to wake up with more strength
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and energy.
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Sixth,
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feel within yourself
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that you will realize the joy of success
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while you are still suffering
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the pain of the path,
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for that will lighten for you
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the hardship and urge you
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to keep going.
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Seventh,
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if you have tried and exerted effort,
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do not grieve;
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rather, change your means to success,
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for some of them may lead you
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if others
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have blocked you.
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If you do not reach it,
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change the direction of your success,
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for you may succeed elsewhere.
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Success is not limited to one field;
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Al-Asma'i failed
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in the science of prosody (Arud)
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but excelled in literature,
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and Sahl ibn Habib did not succeed
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with Al-Khalil
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in prosody,
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However, he succeeded in the field of grammar.
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The breeze of the dawn,
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in bringing happiness to mankind.