Harkat mein barkat (DW#411)
For today’s verse, I could not find a better title than the Urdu phrase: Harkat mein barkat, meaning there is blessing in movement/striving. One of the principles of life, taught by experience and by Divinity, is that human beings get what they strive towards.
It is important to note that what the Quran is telling us is that our outcome will be in accordance with our striving. What this means is that it intention and effort that counts. In the material world, we are told that winning is everything and that being second best does not count.
However, in our relationship with God, winning and the outcome does not matter as much as the effort and the intention with which any action is undertaken. The outcome, of course, is never really in our control in the first place. We can work really hard at something and still not get the outcome we hoped for or worked towards. This verse reminds us that our striving towards worthy goals still counts. That even if we do not see the results of our striving, the striving still counts in terms of spiritual progress.
So let us put wise effort into things that really matter. Things that will count towards eventual success.
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