Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Speaking Tree Website | November 10, 2014

The well-known tennis champion, Martina Navratilova, was born in Communist Czechoslovakia in 1956. Due to her pro-American ideas, the Czech authorities stripped Martina off her nationality in 1975.

She got the nationality of the United States in 1981. Martina worked very hard and went on to become a famous tennis star, winning several championships.

Czech citizenship was Martina's right, but even when her right was taken away, she neither protested nor engaged in any activism to regain this right. She focussed on her game and went on to become a champion. This changed the mind of the Czech government. Navratilova, who was earlier considered a liability for the Czech government, later on emerged as an asset and her citizenship was restored in 2008.

In situations where people's rights are taken away, often they resort to protests and demands. Experience shows that people seldom have anything positive to say in such circumstances. However, Martina did not undertake any campaign of protest, but later on she got back her rights on her own.

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This is the secret of life. Our world is a world of challenge. In such a world, protests and complaints are quite irrelevant. The only thing that works is proof of your competence. Do not adopt the method of rights activism, instead adopt the way of duty activism and you will have no complaints against anyone.