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Make Yourself Eligible, Don’t Make Demands

The same holds true in the case of human beings.
People and groups gain a position of respect if they
prove to be useful. In contrast, those who lose their
usefulness are dumped into the dustbin of history and
the world moves on.
The whole of human history supports this Quranic
declaration. For instance, around the mid-20 century,
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various European colonial powers were forced to
relinquish their control over most of Asia and Africa.
But when the former European colonies in Asia and
Africa won political freedom, they discovered that they
had no one to man their educational institutions. And
so, many of these countries invited ‘experts’ from the
very same European countries that they had earlier been
colonized by. Things went to such an extreme in some
cases that political independence soon turned into
technical servitude! Today, Western countries control
these states by controlling their economies and through
their domination in the field of science, in just the same
way as they once controlled these states politically.

Like Muslims, Christians, too, are a minority in India.
They could have had the some complaints with regard
to the majority community as Muslims keep talking
about. Yet, Christians do not face the same issues in
India as Muslims do.
Why?

Christianity is a missionary religion. It is engaged
in missionary work in a very organized way. Many
Christians believe that salvation is possible only through
Christianity, not through any other religion. They also

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