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Water from Stones: Conflict-Resolution through Gentleness

English book, p. 6

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Water from Stones: Conflict-Resolution through Gentleness S everal years ago, some Russian scientists conducted an 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 both started quarrelling over it. Each claimed that the land belonged to him. The contractor perceived that he could not manage to get his way by himself,

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