Something More to Be Done
If after the night the Almighty makes you see things anew in the morning, you should understand that there are more days left for you to do your work.
Lord Robert Clive (1725-1774), one of the top Britishers who struggled hard to make India a British colony in the 18th century, came to Madras at the age of eighteen, in 1743 and joined the East India Company as a clerk. His salary was five pounds annually. This amount was quite insufficient for his expenses. He was burdened with debts and, due to disappointment and depression, he quarreled with his colleagues and officers.
This was a very strange occurrence. Realizing this, Robert Clive cried: “Certainly the Almighty has saved you for some important purpose.” Now he resigned from his job as a clerk and joined the British army. At that time both the Britishers and the French were trying simultaneously to set foot in India. Finally, a battle was fought between the two forces. In this war, Robert Clive proved himself by showing extraordinary capability and bravery. Subsequently, he made a great deal of progress and was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British army. Robert Clive who had wanted to kill himself in frustration, finally rose to the position of being the first conqueror of India.
All of us at one time or the other are faced with such incidents, when we safely emerge from an extremely dangerous situation as though a miracle had happened. However, very few people learn their lesson as Robert Clive did. There are very few who come to understand from these incidents that: “Your time has not yet come, you have yet to complete your work in this world.”
Every man has been allotted a fixed time and certain opportunities. This fixed time and these opportunities are not taken away from him until the Almighty wills it to be so. If after the night the Almighty makes you see things anew in the morning, you should understand that there are more days left for you to do your work. If you succeed in saving your life in this world so full of grave incidents, it means that, according to the plan of Almighty, you have to do something which you have yet not done.
