Assert Yourself to the Limits
There is this theory of peak loads.
Those who go to the Gym know it.
Suppose you pick up a weight that is to the full capacity of your muscles and do minimal exercise with that.
Say three times with some gap.
Then that is all that is needed for the day.
And three times a week is sufficient.
Supose you pick up very small amount of weight and do an exercise a large number of times then it adds nothing to your muscles.
We have our relationship with Allah swt and we have the social interaction with the world.
First part was practiced in makkah and the second one in Madinah.
In the second part we have been something like the British vis-a-vis the American.
Here is what Stephen Fry has to say about it.
We Muslims have to switch to the assertive gear.
We are far too apologetic.
I think the west should be apologetic and on the back foot.
We got to be assertive at the level of peak loads.
Of course the dictum of easier said than done does apply here also but I assure my brothers and sisters that this attitude will be unproductive.
Assertion is different from aggression.
I am merely talking about verbalisation of our stand.
If the British have been acting like Mr Beans before the Americans then we ourselves have been acting like guilty ones while it is the US in particular and the west in general that are still guilty of a lot of injustice to Muslims in particular and the world in general.
I hope we can gather back our courage.
Yes, it is a matter of courage.
Just see what Shashi Tharoor is saying here to the British in their home.
Of course it is 68 years after British left and after India is a successful country from worldly point of view.
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