GOING AGAINST THE CREATION PLAN
English book, PDF p. 81
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
GOING AGAINST THE CREATION PLAN ~ 81 ~ opportunities and possibilities, by availing of which one can start one’s life all over again and reach the destination of success. THE AGE OF WAR HAS COME TO AN END In ancient and mediaeval times, military encounters took place in the form of hand-to-hand fighting between soldiers wielding swords. But in modern times, highly sophisticated weapons such as nuclear missiles are used. The basic difference between early and modern warfare is in the extent of the carnage in each case. The wielding of swords could sever the heads of only a few of the combatants, but now in the atomic age the equation has totally changed. For now war means general destruction. Moreover, the bomb aimed at the enemy is destructive to the user too. When we face up to these hard facts, we have to concede that war has become a futile exercise. War is now only a manifestation of madness, instead of being a measure calculated to enable one to achieve one’s objective. After the emergence of nuclear weapons, war has become a thing to be abhorred and abandoned. When we can see that resorting to war

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