Every single person needs to have in life at least one Mentor; having multiple is a luxurious gift of circumstances. The Mentor(s) in our lives are meant to do mentoring of us, firstly as individuals and then lead towards the development of technical skills.

There is hardly a person who requires no mentoring. All do. Even the Apostles of God need mentoring… they receive it directly from Divinity and, in some cases, the Infinitely Divine Wisdom imparts it through other ordinary men (not recognised as Prophets or Apostles) to His Chosen Prophets. Moses was mentored by the “knowledgeable one” (Khizar is the generally accepted name). Moses was taught several lessons whilst he travelled along with Khizar, at his own request and against the advice of Khizar, who thought Moses would not have the patience to bear the burden of events. (Readers may refer to the chapter titled The Cave or Kahaf in the Holy Quran).

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Generally, mentoring as an exercise is seen to mean that it has to be from a person of substance to be able to offer it to mentees. In reality, we are under the “mentee mode” all the time in our lives — this mentoring is silent, unannounced, informal, and comes from several directions. In the initial years, mentoring is done by parents, siblings, and the extended family; followed by teachers at school, college, and university. Our friends and other segments of society are also continually “mentoring” us without it being pronounced or obvious.

It is not unusual to be a recipient of quality mentoring that arises from unique situations and circumstances. A run on the bank is the worst nightmare of a banker. I faced one arising out of rumour-mongering........

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