English book · THE ART OF CLEAR THINKING

Unilateral Adjustment

English book, p. 48

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

UNILATERAL ADJUSTMENT In situations involving a conflict between two individuals or groups, the party that is willing to engage in unilateral compromise invariably attains a favorable outcome. W hen a dispute arises between two individuals or groups, each party tries to make the other party accept its position or claim and to extract what it regards as its rights from the other party. This method is completely against Nature, however. It only results in a temporary problem turning into an unending one. Not only does the problem not end, but, moreover, new problems arise that make the original problem even more intractable. There is only one solution to a dispute—and that is unilateral adjustment. The first party to agree to unilateral adjustment is always successful. In contrast, the party that does not agree to this must always pay the price of its stance—and that is, to have to accept with disgrace that very same resolution that it could have agreed upon at the very outset with honour but refused to do so.

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