Allah didn't bring me this far to leave me

Yesterday while browsing some pages one quotation attracted all my attention and triggered the thought process. The quotation was:

“Most people give up when they are about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown”

How truly and beautifully the most tragic dilemma of life is explained by these words. It happens with so many people that they saw a dream, a dream to achieve something great in this life, a dream to create something, a dream to make a difference. They are persistent, with all the energy they start their journey, with a clear vision of glorious success but very few can actually make it happen.

The question is what happens to the rest? The people who started with enormous journey abandon their dream in half way? Why?

It’s because that when we try to achieve something extra ordinary, fate tests our level of commitment, strength of our determination in form of adverse circumstance, some speed brakers, some problems that seems to pull us back, that tends to stop us spreading our energy, in form of people who criticize us by saying “It’s possible”, “are you out of your mind”, “what a foolish idea”, “No, you can never achieve this” and stuff like this. It is the time when most of us start loosing our energy, the vision starts to get blur and we starts to doubt our dreams and only at this time without realizing we are also doubting the unlimited Blessings of Allah, we are doubting the continues support of Allah and allow people to snatch our vision, to break our dreams and make us join the group of quitters.

This is the time when the Winners are separated from Quitters. If it was so easy to see a dream and turn it into reality then anyone would have done it.

In actual it is only for the chosen ones. Selected purely on the basis of Test of Fate.

If in such time we have to keep our confidence in our dreams, confidence that Allah is with us and that “Allah didn't bring me this far to leave me” and only then we can create wonders. Instead of thinking that problems are pulling us back we can think it’s only to push us forward with more force (Bow & Arrow), instead of thinking it’s stopping our energy from spreading we can think it’s only to accumulate it to spread with more force (when pressure cooker explosion), instead of thinking speed braker is there to slow us we can believe it’s placed there to make us take a long leap ahead (how professional bikers use these to cover more area), instead of listening to negative criticism and loosing faith we can think all this is to make us more committed, to energize us, to fuel us like “Ab to ker ke dekhana ha”, “I can do it because the most powerful power of universe Allah is with me”.

Only if we can keep our faith at these moments we can turn any dream into reality. Even history support this, take out profiles of great achievers, profiles of people who emerged as winners, all of them were tested by fate but it was their believe, their faith and persistence that made them achieve something that was considered as Impossible by others.

Next time you are about to quit always remember that:

“Winning touchdown is just there in front of you, even if you can’t see it due to temporary darkness take the leap of faith and emerge as winner”

May Allah give us power to turn our dreams into reality. Have a nice day.

Aisha Javed