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The Road to Peace

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ll things in the universe are entirely interdependent.
AThings that are interdependent are related to one another
in such a close way that each one needs the other in order to
exist. The universal law governing this inter-relatedness is also
generally applicable to human society, in the sense that, in the
human world, great things can happen when each individual
plays his own role without interfering in the sphere of others.
At present we see Muslim militancy almost everywhere.
And Muslim countries are no exception. When Muslim
countries have Muslim rule and Muslim administration, why
is militancy also in evidence there? It is because Muslims in
these countries are not following the above universal principle.
To illustrate this, I would like to give two examples from
the Muslim world.
In Egypt, King Farouk’s rule ended in 1952. Then Gamal
Abdel Nasser became president. At that time the Muslim
Brotherhood took on the role of the opposition to the
government. There was a power struggle between these two
factions. To settle the matter, the then president Gamal Abdel
Nasser, made a good offer to the Muslim Brotherhood. But
Sayyid Qutb, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, refused
the offer. This fact has been mentioned in The Lives of the Two
Revivers – Hasan al-Banna and Syed Qutb:
‘Nasser…tried to persuade Qutb by offering him any
position he wanted in Egypt except its Kingship, saying:
“We will give you whatever position you want in the

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