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Peace: The Summum Bonum
nothing in return. Now experience is telling them that all
the violence in the name of Islam should be abandoned,
as this violence is based on falsehood and has not yielded
any result.

After a Muslim struggle spanning over thirty years for
the Babri Masjid, nothing could be achieved. Then I
compared how Japan re-planned after WWII and within
thirty years emerged as an economic superpower. Here
we found nothing in thirty years of struggle and in Japan
there was a re-emergence. This could happen because the
Japanese put behind what they had lost.

They did not spend a day to fret over what had happened.
One Babri Mosque was demolished for Muslims but for
Japan, an entire industrial edifice had been crushed. But
the Japanese refused to waste their time on revenge and
began planning afresh.

God has set examples of communities – Japan and
Germany – so that Muslims pay heed and re-plan. This
is when the Quran’s message was not sufficient for them.
But even if now Muslims do not retract, then they will
not receive divine help.

37 How can Muslims in Pakistan realize

their mistakes and why are they not
’
receiving God s help?

was born in a village in UP, which had a road that
I used to go from Shahganj to Azamgarh. A lot of times

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