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Water from Stones:

Conflict-Resolution

through Gentleness

everal years ago, some Russian scientists conducted
San experiment and discovered that it is possible to
squeeze water out of stones! The experiment entailed
extracting rocks from a few metres under the surface of
the earth, placing them in metal containers, and then
subjecting them to an immense pressure of ten tonnes
per square centimetre, which caused drops of water to
come dripping out.

This is a sign of God, providing us with valuable
lessons about the amazing potentials and possibilities
that God has kept for us to access in this world. A rock
is a hard, dry object, but water can start to drip from it
when a certain action is performed on it.
A certain Muslim man once built a house for
himself. His neighbour was a contractor by profession
and belonged to another community. There was a
plot of land in between their houses, and soon they

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