Communal Egos and Inter-Community Conflict

Once, while on a trip to Europe, I came across a young man who was enthusiastically distributing a booklet in Arabic and English. On the very first page were the following words: India has become a vast slaughterhouse for Muslims! Now, it is true that in some places in India, some violent incidents have taken place. But to generalize like this for the entire country is absolutely false. It is against reality. And those who want to build their case on the basis of claims that go against reality can definitely not earn God’s help. Another thing to be noted in this regard is that a sensational way of speaking, writing and thinking robs people of their realism. God has made the system on the basis of which this functions entirely on the basis of realism. Here, in this world, if you want to obtain a certain result, you will have to be entirely in harmony with the principles and laws of nature. Given this, people who derive great pride and pleasure in falsely blaming others are bound to be bereft of realism. They will have no status left in the real world. People who keep blaming others for their woes always prove to be a cause for strife and conflict. The government of the country where they live, or the people who live around them, may do 99 things properly, but if the government or other people falter on just one thing, they whip up such a furore as if that is the only thing they know how to do! The writer Robert Multhoff says something very interesting. He writes: He who likes to generalize generally lies. If you make a generalization on the basis of an isolated event, you are giving that exception the status of a general rule. For instance, something happens as a matter of chance but you claim that it is a general phenomenon. If you easily resort to making such generalizations, you will soon come to inhabit a false world, a world of lies. And you will never be able to find Truth or to arrive at the right solutions to your problems.