Suffer and Success

There is no link between how much you sacrifice & tolerate pain and how much success & money you will have in life.

That’s a big idea motivational speakers and book writers miss, they always tell people: you are not good enough, try harder, be better, read books, put effort, money, sweat and tears and eventually you will succeed. I am here to tell you may not.

We have a beautiful concept in Islam called “RIZQ”. Rizq is a manifestation of things given to you by God, such as wealth, health, knowledge, power, authority and skills.

Muslims all around the world believe no matter what you do in life your Rizq is constant. This belief changes the way you approach life and how you think of the future and the consequences of your current actions.

This breaks the model saying that there are roads to success or paths to wealth and happiness. I am not saying that you shouldn’t work and try to reach excellence in what you do, my message is “Don’t worry”, you already don’t know what’s going to happen.

If you encountered a decent amount of life experiences, you know that there is so many times were you did the wrong thing but it eventually worked out in ways you couldn’t even imagined, people attribute this to luck, i call it Rizq.

People today have a great anxiety making decisions and choices, no matter what you take into consideration, you can’t tell what’s going to happen tomorrow, you can’t even tell if you are going to live to witness it happening, the more you try to control life, the more you know it is not controllable, the more you let go and trust that eventually things will turn out to be what it meant to be, you will start enjoying the surprises of life.

This believe in Rizq doesn’t translate that things will eventually turn to be good, sometimes bad things will happen, suffering and pain will be encountered, for that we have another concept called “SABR”, which translate into patience, meaning tolerating bad events, because it may turn out to be in your benefit at the end, otherwise you will be compensated in the day of judgment.

The story of the Chinese farmer by Alan Watts is a very good illustration of what is mentioned above.

In the story the Chinese farmer, kept saying “maybe”, here in the Islamic and Arab world we use a very popular term called “Inshallah” meaning “God willing”, no matter what goals and objectives you are working to achieve, its linked to God’s wishes.

It is the most peaceful and fulfilling way of living, to live with eagerness looking forward to what’s going to happen without worry, believing that it will turnout to be good in this life or in the hereafter.

Believing in this concept also allows your mind to conceive the idea, that good things can happen indeed without a lot of effort. And it is a very important idea to have because some people think that they must suffer to be worthy of getting whatever they are seeking in life, this will consume your body and your mind.

I remember when i started my previous company “Trevx”, a very strange story happened to me, i traveled to Silicon Valley in order to secure investment for my venture and spent lots of time and money without any result, then i decided to return back to my home country Amman, Jordan. On the way back to Amman, someone was sitting next to me typing emails, i noticed in the email signature, a logo of a well known investment firm in Jordan, he turned out to be the CEO of that firm, i interrupted his work telling him i want to talk to you after you finish. I explained my company vision, and showed him the product, telling him I need money to turn this dream to a company, on the same week I signed the shareholders agreement, things couldn’t happen faster and stranger, I traveled from Amman to US to get my investment on the way back to Amman.

I learned that it is not the effort nor the time put into something determine the results but God’s will and how life is arranged.

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