Platform Success: Insight, Not Crowd
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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The criterion for the success of any platform, organization, or movement is not that a crowd of active members gathers around it, a mob of people forms to the point where it becomes impossible to tell whether there are humans in it or just statistics. True success is not in numbers, nor in noise, nor in slogans—but in how many people are organizing, or being organized, with understanding of the purpose, with humility and sincerity, and with awareness and insight. The real success of every organized organization and every platform lies in the sincerity, honesty, and intellectual harmony of its member-making individuals. Even if such individuals are few in number, if they possess a dignified personality and effective ability under the purpose of the platform, then that platform deserves to be called successful. It is through such individuals that every aspect of the platform is promoted and publicized, dignity is created among the public and elite, and if it is religious, it also becomes a cause of Allah's pleasure. Only then does a platform attain an ideal life.
In contrast, if a platform or mobile app considers merely gathering a crowd of active members as the criterion for success, then understand that we are being used somewhere, and our affiliation is becoming a means of someone else's benefit instead of a purpose. Somewhere we are being used. By activating us, someone else is actually trying to brighten their shop. Because the platform that gathers a crowd will have all kinds of people gathered there—capable and incapable, sincere and self-interested—and with their own uneven thinking, they will mix everything up. In such an environment, even if there are a few sincere individuals, their gaze will be scattered everywhere; what will they investigate? How far will they be able to maintain sincerity for the sake of religion, and how far will they continue to strive to remain dignified in the eyes of the world? When the standard of order is weak and quantity is given priority over principle, then sincerity also gets tired, and conscience also comes into a defensive position.
It is often seen that conscience-sellers and shameless people brighten their shops with the help of sincere people. First they use them, then they defame them, then they give people a disgraced life in the marketplace and leave them to wander. The result is that someone defames simple attire, someone defames the name of religion, and someone paints the entire class in the same color. If the enemy casts an eye, he gets the best trick to defame Islam, and we ourselves pave the way for him with our own hands. Therefore, simplicity alone is not enough, but delicacy is needed; not just passion, but insight is necessary; and not just inclusion, but conscious affiliation is essential. Understanding and judging the tactics of the world is the greatest need of the time. Lest we become fuel for someone else's benefit in the name of some good.
So, when joining any platform, this question must be asked: Are we partners in the purpose, or raw material for someone's advertising campaign? Because the successful platform is not the one that creates a crowd, but the one that creates human beings. Informed, virtuous, and dignified human beings. Come! Let us ask ourselves this question: Is someone using us by making us part of a crowd? We have to think seriously. Instead of becoming part of the crowd, let us raise the flag of consciousness, choose quality instead of quantity, and connect every affiliation with sincerity, insight, and responsibility. Because the demand of the time is that we not only join—but stand firm with care, understanding, and purpose… so that we ourselves may be successful and also enable the platform we are affiliated with to achieve true success. Poem
Light the lamp of insight within you
Save yourself a little from the crowd of time
He is the one who is successful who remained the trustee of thought
Don't run at every call, test yourself a little
By: Mahmood ul Bari
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