The Moral Vision
Nightly Preparation for a Mighty Task
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and will soon be in a position to represent it in the
world.
This applies to worldly pursuits also. Almost all the
individuals who have reached great heights in any
field have been those who were willing to stay
awake at night in order to gain proficiency in it.
The case of Severiano Ballesteros, the Spanish
golfer, provides apt illustration of this point.
Ballesteros is now indisputably one of the greatest
golfers in the world and has won millions of dollars
in numerous victories in tournaments on both sides
of the Atlantic. There was a time, however, when he
was just a poor caddy at Pedereda in Spain. He once
told Frank Keating of the
Guardian
newspaper how
he used to get up at night to hit a 100 or so balls “at
the moon.” He could not see them—”but I can tell
how good and straight I hit them by the feel in
hands and the sand.”
To become a true Muslim is to become a
personification of Islam in the eyes of the world; it
is to become so associated with Islam that one is fit
to carry its message to far corner of the globe. This
requires intense preparation, which must be
