English book · The Ideology of Peace

THE WAYS AND MEANS OF PEACE

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By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

THE WAYS AND MEANS OF PEACE ~ 44 ~ he can flout the rule of law by driving his car on the left will certainly have an accident. This accident would apparently have occurred due to the collision of another’s car with him, but he would have no justification in saying that another motorist had injured him by hitting his car. On the contrary, he should have to admit that his car had collided with another, because he had been driving on the wrong side of the street, while the other motorist was on the right side. The same is true of all other aspects of human existence. Whenever you have to face any loss in life, you must consider that whatever happened was due to your own shortcomings. This is the way of peaceful thinking—the correct way of thinking in the affairs of this life. If you can think along the right lines, you will be able to set yourself rectifying your mistakes, which will save your future. If you take the opposite course, you will put all the blame for your feelings of distress on others, and then, by taking a violent option, you will destroy your future, having already destroyed

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