From Stones to the Quran

stayed for one night in a students’ hostel in Kashmir, where I shared a room with one of the students. When I woke up in the morning, this student told me he had had a dream relating to the monthly Al-Risala. He said ‘I saw an old man with a grey beard. He was not educated, but was crying out loudly, asking repeatedly to be enrolled as a member of the Al- Risala. In this dream, it appeared as if the old man symbolized the soul of Kashmir. The soul of Kashmir was screaming out that it was sick of the negative thoughts that were being spread across the valley. It totally disapproved of this and said, “Spread the monthly Al-Risala and its positive thoughts instead.”’ The militant movement started in October 1989 in Kashmir, during which Kashmir suffered immeasurable losses of life and property. The self-styled Jihad brought to Kashmir nothing but destruction. Now there is only one way to rectify matters, and that is to spread constructive thinking in Kashmir. Only the message which has been repeatedly conveyed in the monthly Al-Risala can bring back normal life to Kashmir. Anything other than this can spell only death and destruction. The so-called Kashmir militant movement may benefit certain leaders, but Kashmir and the Kashmiri people have nothing to gain from it. Now, the final hour has come to review this whole situation. Emotionalism must be abandoned in favour of realism.