Introduction
It is perfect, and I tried saying. This short phrase gathers the experience of people, nations, and generations. God helps those who help themselves is the basis of his proper development. When this enthusiasm is found in many people, it is the root of national development and strength.
When someone else does something for a person or a group, that enthusiasm for helping oneself decreases in that person or that group, and the need to support oneself disappears from his heart and, with it, the pride, which is an excellent strength in man and with it the honor which is the absolute brilliance of man keeps disappearing by itself and when this is the case with a nation, that entire nation becomes humiliated and dishonorable and dishonorable in the eyes of other countries.
The Sources
The more men trust others, even if they do not trust the government for their welfare and progress (this is obvious and without evil), the more helpless and dishonorable they become. O my fellow citizens! Is this not your situation? All the nations of Asia have always believed that a good king is the source of progress and happiness for the subjects.
The people of Europe, who were more advanced than the people of Asia, believed that a good administration is the source of the nation’s honor, welfare, happiness, and progress, whether it be the arrangement of the customs and traditions of the nation or the government. This is why the people of Europe considered legislative assemblies a great source of human progress and considered their status to be the highest and most exalted, but in reality, all these ideas are wrong.
Be Supposed
Suppose a person, even if he were to become a member of Parliament from Ireland in London or a member of the Viceroy and Governor-General’s Council in Calcutta from India, were he to sit as a member of the Council of India, what good can he do for the nation, the national good, and the national progress? What good can he do for the country by voting on something every two years, no matter how honestly and fairly he may have voted?
How can it affect the nation’s behavior if it does not even affect his conduct and behavior? Yes, it is undoubtedly true that government does not help man in any way, but the great advantage of good government is that man can freely fulfill his powers and develop his condition.
the government
It is becoming more apparent daily that the government’s duty is primarily hostile and obstructive rather than positive and practical. That duty is the protection of life, property, and liberty. When the law is implemented wisely, a person can enjoy the fruits of his physical and mental labor without fear. The better the government’s harm will be.
It’s Hard To Make
But no law, no matter how inspiring it may be, can make a lazy man industrious, a wasteful spender frugal, or a drunkard repentant. Instead, these things can be achieved through personal labor, frugality, and self-sacrifice. National progress, national honor, national reform, good habits, good conduct, and good behavior do not come from obtaining significant rights and high positions in the government. Men.
The old saying is, “Al-Nas ‘ala Din Malukham.” If this saying, “Al-Nas,” means a few special people who are close to the king, then it is correct. It is inaccurate if it is taken to mean that the subjects become like their government. The state is never painted in the color of the government; the government’s color is based on that of the subjects.
The government is a reflection of the people it governs. The color that belongs to them is reflected in the GovernGovernmentGovernGovernmentbjects forcibly pull back the government that is ahead of its subjects in civilization and decency, and the government inferior and behind in civilization and decency is dragged along with the subjects in the race for progress.
History Shows
History has shown that this was the case with India and England. The subjects of England were far ahead of the Government at the time in civilization and civility, and they forcibly dragged the Government with them. The subjects of India are far behind the present government regarding civilization and civility. The government pulled it up but did not pull; it forcibly dragged the government.
The Law of Nature
It is a law of nature that the totality of the conduct of a nation is its laws and the government. Just as water flows into its channel, good subjects are governed well, and ignorant, corrupt, and uneducated subjects must be governed roughly. All experience has shown that a country’s excellence, excellence, and dignity, in proportion to the excellence of its government, depends mainly on the conduct, morality, habits, civilization, and decency of its subjects because a nation is a collection of personal conditions. The civilization of a country is, in fact, the individual development of the men, women, and children who make up that nation.
National Development
It combines personal labor, honor, honesty, and sympathy. Similarly, national decline is the sum of personal laziness, dishonor, dishonesty, selfishness, and vices. Uncivilized and bad behavior, which are considered evils of morality, civilization, or mutual society, are, in fact, the result of the wandering life of the same person.
If we want to uproot and destroy these evils by external efforts, these evils will arise in some new form with even greater force. Unless the conditions of personal life and personal conduct are developed,
The Truth is
O my dear fellow citizens! If this opinion is correct, then its result is that you should have genuine sympathy and true goodwill for the nation. Consider how your nation’s personal life and conduct should be excellent so that you, too, maybe a respectable nation. Can the method of education and training, conversation, dress and manners, travel and occupation, for your children lead to progress in their conduct, morals, habits, goodness, and truth? Far be it.
When every person and the whole nation can improve themselves through their internal conditions, how pitiful, indeed ignorant, to sit in the hope that external force will enhance and develop a person or a nation.
Slave to His own
A person is not an enslaved person who has been bought by a God-fearing person who is called his cruel master. Nor is he a subject of a tyrannical king or governor. In fact, he is a real slave who is subject to immorality, selfishness, ignorance, and wickedness. He is enslaved to his own selfishness and indifferent to national sympathy.
External force frees those nations that are thus enslaved people at heart, that is, by good government administration, unless this state of slavery in the heart is removed. As long as men think that our reform and progress depend on the government and the sound administration of the nation, no permanent and practical result of reform and progress can be produced in the country.
Administration considerations
No matter how good changes are made in the government, those changes are no more than a fanciful idea in which various pictures are seen moving, but nothing is there when you look at them. Permanent and substantial freedom, true dignity, and real progress depend on the excellence of personal conduct. That personal conduct protects society and civilization and is the great guarantor of national progress.
Wise Saying
John Stuart Mill, who was a great sage in the same era, says that even a tyrannical and autonomous government cannot produce terrible results if there is personal reform and personal development among its subjects. That which suppresses personal reform and personal growth is, a tyrannical and autonomous government for it. Then call that thing by whatever name you like.
I further emphasize that where personal reform and personal development have been destroyed or suppressed, no matter how free and excellent a government is established. It cannot produce any good results. I give the example of the condition of India, and especially of the Muslims of India, as a confirmation of my proposition. O Muslim brothers! Is this not your condition? What have you gained from this excellent government ruling you? What have you gained from the preservation of your freedom? Hatch, hatch, hatch! The reason for this is that you have no spirit of self-help.
The Expectations
We, people, think that a Khidr should be found for the national development of man and that the government Should be generous and do all our work. This means that everything should be done for us, and we should not do it ourselves. This is such a problem that if he is made a guide and leader, it will destroy the freedom of the heart of the entire nation and make men humanistic.
In reality, such a thing is the worship of power, and its results make man as despicable as the worship of wealth alone, which makes man despicable and humiliated. Is Lala Ashrafi Mal, who worships Lakshmi every day and has immense wealth, considered worthy of some respect and dignity among men?
Self Help: the Greater Respect Earned
The great and strong principle by which the noble nations of the world have earned their respect is self-help. When men understand and apply this well, they forget to seek the Khidr. These two principles of reliance on others and self-help oppose each other. The former destroys the vices of man, and the former destroys man himself.
The desire for national order or the promulgation of good laws is also an ancient misconception. The actual principle is that which William Dragon, a great benefactor of Ireland, said at the Dublin Artisan Exhibition. He said,
The Word Freedom
“When I hear freedom, I think of my country and city. We have heard many things about our freedom, but I am convinced that our labor and liberty depend on us. If we work hard and use our powers properly, there will be no more excellent opportunities or promising prospects for our betterment. Independence and hard work are excellent means of success.
If we work with one heart and enthusiasm, I am sure that in a short time, our condition will also become one of peace, happiness, and freedom like that of a good nation.“
Condition and Consideration
Considering the conditions of man’s past shows that the work of generations of men has achieved man’s present condition. The hardworking and persistent workers, the tillers of the earth, the miners, the inventors of new things, the discoverers of hidden things, the operators of heavy machinery and all kinds of professions, the skilled workers, the poets, the sages, the philosophers. The administrators of the country have greatly helped man reach the present state of development.
One generation has built on the other generation’s work and raised it to a higher level. By the continuous succession of these excellent craftsmen, who are the standards of building civilization and decency, the order has been created in the work, knowledge, and skill that were in a state of disorder.
Cycle of Nature
Gradually, the cycle of nature has made the present generation the heir to this rich and priceless property, which was provided by the intelligence and hard work of our ancestors, and that property has not been given to us so that we can only protect it like Mar Sarganj, but rather it has been given to us so that we can develop it and leave it in an expanded state for future generations, but alas, a hundred thousand times alas, that our nation has also destroyed the property left by these ancestors.
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Spirit of Self-Help
The British have made so much progress in the world only because their nation has always had a spirit of self-help, and their personal hard work is a fair witness to this. This issue of self-help has been an accurate measure of the strength of the British nation.
Although many people among the English were of higher rank and more famous than all the others and whom everyone respected. It nation has also made great progress from the groups of low-ranking and unknown men. Even if the names of only great generals and commanders are written in the lists and histories of any battle and battlefield, those victories were primarily due to the courage and bravery of those hardworking people.
The Impact
The common people have worked the most throughout history. Many people whose lives have not been written by anyone have had the same impact on civilization, decency, and progress as those fortunate, famous, and famous people whose lives have been written by historians in their histories.
A humble and poor man who shows his companions an example of hard work, piety, and disinterested honesty, that person dramatically impacts the well-being of his country and his nation in his time and the future. Because his way of life and behavior is unknown, it secretly spreads into other people’s lives and becomes a good example for future generations.
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Behavior That Has a Strong Impact
Everyday experience shows that one’s behavior has a power that impacts the life, behavior, and conduct of others. This is an excellent practical education. When we compare this practical education with academic education, the school, madrasa, and madrasah of sciences are the initial education of this practical education. The knowledge of life, that is, the knowledge of the behavior of life, which is called “life education” in English, dramatically impacts a person and a nation.
The knowledge of the school, madrasa, and madrasah of sciences is kept in a niche, box, cupboard, or big library. Still, the understanding of life’s behavior is always with one in meeting friends, living at home, walking through the city streets, running a money exchange shop, plowing, a cloth factory, and a factory working with ants. Then, without teaching or discipleship, it spreads among people only through one’s behavior.
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Final Thoughts
This previous knowledge is what makes a person a human being. From this previous knowledge, action, conduct, self-education, self-sacrifice, personal virtue, national strength, and national honor are achieved. This previous knowledge makes a person capable of fulfilling his duties, protecting the rights of others, conducting his life’s business, and improving his destiny.
A person cannot learn this education only from books, nor is this education achieved through any level of academic attainment. Lord Bacon is far beyond knowledge and superior to knowledge, and observation corrects a person’s life and knowledge into action, that is, his behavior. Compared to understanding, action, and compared to biography, good conduct makes a person more honorable and worthy of respect.
Is this the reason why the founders of the Muslim Madrasah of Uloom have suggested that Muslim boys be kept in the company of scholars, aristocrats, and educated people in the Madrasah of Uloom, separated from homes and lousy company?
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