24/08/2022
May peace and blessings of The Almighty be upon you
💎✒️ LIFE STORIES ✒️💎
🦋The Wise Old Man🦋
A wealthy Muslim man requested an old scholar to wean his son Mustafa away from his bad habits. The scholar took the youth for a stroll through a garden. Stopping suddenly he asked Mustafa to pull out a tiny plant growing there.
The youth held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. The old man then asked him to pull out a slightly bigger plant. Mustafa pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all. "Now pull out that one," said the old man pointing to a bush. The boy had to use all his strength to pull it out.
"Now take this one out Mustafa," said the old man, indicating a guava tree. Mustafa, the wealthy man's son, grasped the trunk and tried to pull it out. But it would not budge. "It's impossible," said Mustafa, panting with the effort.
"So it is with bad habits," said the sage. "When they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted."
The session with the old man changed the Mustafa's life.
Moral:
Don't wait for Bad Habits to grow in you, drop them while you have control over it else they will get control you.