English book · The Age of Peace

The Power of Peace is Greater than the Power of Violence

English book, p. 69

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

The Non-Confrontational Methods for Peace Scope for peaceful planning exists everywhere and at all times. The sole prerequisite for this is patience. For it is patience which gives one the ability to analyze situations with an objective mind. When one is free of prejudice and predilection, one becomes a super-planner. Historians generally acknowledge that the Prophet Muhammad was an extremely successful person in world history, the reason for his great success being simply his clear-mindedness about planning along peaceful lines. The target of the violent method is negative, while that of the peaceful method is positive. Why is peace more powerful than violence? The reason is that the sole objective of one who adopts the violent method is to make the rivals incur loss, while one who adheres to the peaceful method aims to make himself strong. The target of the violent method is negative, while that of the peaceful method is positive. It is a truism of life that however many losses one makes the other party suffer, it will never cause one to become strong oneself. The secret of success is to make one’s own self strong, and this is possible only when one does not set a negative target for oneself, but rather moulds one’s policies with a view to arriving at a positive outcome.

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