FROM MAULANA’S DESK

I want to narrate an incident relevant to the subject under discussion here. I visited Jerusalem for the first time in August 1995. As you know, Jerusalem is a well known place of conflict in the world. I was walking around the Arab sector of the city. At one place I saw that some Palestinian children were singing this Arabic song in chorus: Let’s make war, let’s make war. For war is the way to success. I went up to them and told them that it would be much better for them to sing their song like this: Let’s make peace, let’s make peace. For peace is the way to success. The children smiled at this. One child about ten years of age got so excited that he rushed to offer me an olive branch which is considered to be a symbol of peace. Needless to say, I accepted it with gratitude. It was indeed the response of nature represented by an innocent child. It is my firm belief that nature loves peace and that if we appeal to human nature the response no doubt will be greatly positive. o Maulana Wahiduddin Khan editor@thespiritofislam.org Follow Maulana at speakingtree.in The suicide attack on the Central Reserve Police Force personnel on February 14, 2019 was a dastardly act of cowardice. I am a 94 year old man, I have spent my life studying Islam and can say with conviction that this kind of violent ideology, while being a permanent threat to world peace, has nothing to do with Islam.