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By Salma Sanwari

Can’t we become a future CEO ? What defines your dream of future accomplishment ? Be honest. Is it a magic sum in your bank account ? Marrying someone ? A degree of rank in your career ? For what achievement does your heart truly long ? Do you know how to reach there ? What if there is a way to be successful in everything you did – not just in your career, marriage, or school, but in all your life ever touches – relationships, business, education ?

Prophet, Salallahu alaihi wasallam, has shown the exact the exact way way we should do it. Here’s is what one Muslim sees in the Prophet’s outstanding Seerah of success

The ten principles of Success

1. Begin with the possible

When we come to a crossroad in life, or we dont know how to move forward, which path we should take ? Prophet (PBUH) always took the easier path provided there is no violation taking it.

2. Find the advantage in every disadvantage

 Every storm passes. While it can give damage, it may lead to the much required rain. As Quran states “For indeed,with hardship comes ease. Indeed with hardship comes ease” [94:5-6]

We need to believe that after every hardship, there is a success waiting for us. Thus we should take each stepback or bad time as a time to ponder over our mistakes and make way for our success.

3. Change the place of Action

We need to change – both physically or mentally, if things dont work out. This is the moral behind the Hijrah of our prophet.  This is not giving up. It means making the necessry changes to bring about the success of your mission.

4. Find the Good in People

We need to find good in people always. either by sincerity or humility, we can make hostile people take good path to us. We need to love others. Forgive others for their mistakes.  Try to find good about others and not bad of them. Sincerely be interested in others without expecting anything from them. You can see that people loves us better than before.

5. Turn a negative into a postive

If a negative thing happen to us, see if there is any way to turn that negative to postive. Careful examination of the negative incident, we can easily find that there is something u can do to make it positive.

6. The power of peace is stronger than Violence

Kindness is very important to our life. Be kind to those who do bad. Be kind to weak and opressed. Prophet, PBUH, showed this kindness to all those who dealt with him.

7. Don’t be a Dichitomous Thinker

There are countless possibilities. It is very important to discuss with others and get their idea’s. Be open minded and open to other’s point of view. We should not be a monotonous thinker.

8. Bring the Battle to your field

Bring the fight (even with yourself) into a setting where you are confortable with. It is the locus of your message, the area of your competence, and the sphere of your practical influence and moral responsibility. It is here hat you will likely feel more confident and justified.

9. Gradualism Instead of Radicalism

We should change slowly. Thngs has to be done one at a time. Concentrate on one activity before u go to the next. This gives the energy to concentrate completely on the task at hand. Quran itself is a gradual revelation. It was revealed in 23 years span of time and not on one night.

10. Be pragmatic in Controversial Matters

We should take sensible and reasonable decisions on controversial matters. Remember Hubaydiya . If we cannot rationally discourse with others, we will rarely succeed to bring them and ourselves around to a more excellent point of view.

 These are but a few of the prophetic principles of success. If we can gradually begin to incorporate them in our relationships and life-ethics, we will find dramatic change in all the ways we walk – even unto the strangers that we might meet on the street.