Thus difficulties provide steps to climb the ladder to success.

Thus difficulties provide steps to climb the ladder to success. Those who have earned name and fame in the field of science and industry have tolerated difficulties almost throughout their lives. Therefore, Napoleon used to say, “Hardships sharpen man’s intelligence, which result in a better gain. Goethe says, “The storms of incidents strengthen the soul and morale of man.” Parents who always want to save their children from every kind of hardship make them tender.

They are suffering from a serious misunderstanding. Such tender children tremble like thin leaves in times of stormy weather and fear every breeze. The burdens of life break them down pitiably. But those who have suffered hazards and tough times keep standing like mountains. Stormy winds cannot harm them at all. Similarly floods always digs up soft ground but hard soil remains intact amidst floods. The deluge of difficulties proves ineffective in front of tough and sturdy men.

Feeble persons cannot stand straight even on their own legs. The calamities of life provide man with a treasure of experiences and become a ladder to climb up to success and progress. Man gains experience only through hardships. In the light of those experiences he does only those deeds continuously that give him advantage. He marches forward crushing the mountains of hardships under his feet. No calamity can ever come in the path of his advancement.

When the arrows of distress hit his chest he tolerates the pain with a smiling face. Nietzsche says: I love you so much; I wish you should see pains and sorrows. I show no mercy to you in this matter because I really love you. You already know, why? It is so because I wish that your hidden abilities should blossom and that you should combat hard times with an armed soul. In the words of Nasir Khusro: Man never becomes perfect until he sees sorrow and difficulties.

Can a flower spread fragrance without suffering the onslaught of winds and rains? It would not be wrong to say that the success our children is hidden in hardships. If we say that steel becomes harder after entering fire, a knife becomes sharper only after being grinded on hard rock, it is the same truth. A brave Persian named Nadir Shah was a great warrior. His wisdom, acquaintance with his job and his zeal are all recorded in books of history.

He had undertaken his task in the most difficult condition. In those days a few Afghans had subdued the ancient Persians.