Introducing Islam a Simple Introduction to Islam
Real Success and Failure
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Opportunism and expediency earn one honour and
status in this world, but they will be of no use in the
Hereafter. People who gained worldly honour in
this way will find themselves quite unfit for honour
in the everlasting world of God. They will be like an
old-fashioned, manual worker, who is considered
skillful in an agrarian society, but whose skills are
of no use in a modern technological age.