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The Age of Peace

Scope for peaceful planning exists everywhere and at
all times. The sole prerequisite for this is patience. For it is
patience which gives one the ability to analyze situations
with an objective mind. When one is free of prejudice and
predilection, one becomes a super-planner. Historians
generally acknowledge that the Prophet Muhammad was an
extremely successful person in world history, the reason for
his great success being simply his clear-mindedness about
planning along peaceful lines.

The target of the violent method is negative,
while that of the peaceful method is positive.

Why is peace more powerful than violence? The reason is
that the sole objective of one who adopts the violent method
is to make the rivals incur loss, while one who adheres to
the peaceful method aims to make himself strong. The target
of the violent method is negative, while that of the peaceful
method is positive. It is a truism of life that however many
losses one makes the other party suffer, it will never cause
one to become strong oneself. The secret of success is to make
one’s own self strong, and this is possible only when one does
not set a negative target for oneself, but rather moulds one’s
policies with a view to arriving at a positive outcome.

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