To Keep It Going When You Know It’s Wrong

The shaikh, Dr. Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Al-ʿUmarī, may Allāh protect him, said:

To keep going with a wrong decision is weakness of intellect and poor management.

When you make a plan for something or another, and then it becomes clear to you that you [have made] a mistake, don’t keep it going until the very end.

When you get into an argument in which you know you [have made an] error, don’t keep it going until the very end.

When you write a short piece [like an article or treatise], the defects and shortcomings of which have become apparent to you, don’t keep it going until the very end.

When you start a friendship which [has become] hard to put up with and for which all possible means of continuing have become exhausted, don’t keep it going until the very end.

To keep [these things] going until [their] very ends would be failing here, and some failures cause suffering and pain.

Source: twitter.com/m_g_alomari. 28 Oct 22.