Mr. Abdur Rahman Antwalay (barrister law) told me a story once. It was perhaps in the year 1954 that he was a student of law in the London Council of Legal Education. While discussing a legal matter in one of the lectures an English Professor told them an incident. The prophet narrated that a factory while it was running had been shut done. The engineers of that factory had tried reopening that industry but they hadn’t been successful in doing so. At the end a well-known expert had been called in and when he had come he had taken a round of the whole plant. He had looked over the machines and then he had stopped at some place and had asked for a hammer. After hitting that specific place with a hammer the machine had started to work again.
That expert had then gone back and sent a bill too of 100 pounds. The manager of that plant felt that the bill was too much. And so he sent a letter to that expert that you did not do anything special and had just hammered at something and for that a 100 pound bill is not understandable. Kindly give more explanation to our representative. The expert replied back that the expense is justified because 99 pounds and 99 shillings are for figuring out where the fault lies and 1 shilling is for hammering at the machine.
In this world the most valued commodity is knowledge. Out of a 100, 99 refer to knowledge and 1 refers to hard work. Knowledge is the key to success in this world and he who has knowledge has everything in this world.
