Natural Protection
English book, p. 219
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Natural Protection In such a situation, the practical approach is to keep moving forward while ignoring the obstacles. When someone views things this way, they’ll see that obstacles have limits. Despite these obstacles, open paths are everywhere. If you shift your focus from the obstacles and look around, you’ll find a nearby way to keep moving toward your goal. In this world, a person’s choice isn’t between a life with or without conflict but between a conflict-free life and one that leads to destruction. Everyone must decide which path to take. NATURAL PROTECTION Mike Wooldridge, the BBC Bureau Chief in New Delhi, visited our office on January 16, 1998, with his TV team. He recorded an interview with me for their English broadcast. One of his questions was: “The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is generally considered an anti-Muslim party. If the BJP wins the twelfth Indian parliamentary elections to be held in February 1998 and forms the central government, do you see it as a threat to Muslims?” I replied, “Not at all. Any political party that wins an election and comes to power does so only for a few years, and its power is never absolute. We have a formal constitution here. Every government has to operate under this constitution, not independently of it.” They said that the Indian Constitution grants the ruling

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