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Building Life

English book, p. 231

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Limits of Power, Laws of Life takes time to develop. Since then, I have always considered what the true starting point for any endeavour is. You can’t begin your journey from the middle or the end; you must always start where nature intends it to begin. Aspiring to get a result today that is meant to come tomorrow is not an easy task. It is like fighting against the laws of nature. It creates a world within a world. Such an effort will never lead to success. In this world, every human success is achieved by aligning with the laws of nature. A person who fights against these laws cannot accomplish anything for themselves here. This is an absolute truth with no exceptions. LIMITS OF POWER, LAWS OF LIFE On August 2, 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sent his troops into Kuwait and took control of it. This was clearly an act of aggression. Soon after, on August 6, the U.S. chargé d’affaires in Baghdad, Joseph Wilson, met Saddam Hussein and delivered a message from President George Bush. The American envoy, using diplomatic language, warned Saddam that he had committed an act of aggression. Any differences he had with Kuwait should have been resolved through mutual dialogue, not force. But Saddam Hussein, then intoxicated by his sense of victory, responded to the American diplomat with the following words, reported in English: “Give my regards to President Bush and tell him that the Al-Sabah family has now become history.”

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