FROM MAULANA'S DESK

society is not ready to accept your system, you have to wait and engage yourself in the task of preparing the minds of people. The Muslim Brotherhood started the politics of opposition in Egypt in 1952. In spite of great sacrifi ces, this led to confrontation and violence, and, fi nally, bloodshed. Thousands of people were killed during this period. But in terms of positive gain, nothing was achieved. The ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ started their political activism in the name of Islam. However, in terms of results, it generated only hate, infi ghting, and destruction. At the same time, there were and still are enormous opportunities in the fi eld of dawah. Had the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ adopted peaceful dawah mission, today they could have been highly successful in bringing people within the fold of the Truth. But due to their wrong policies, and in spite of great sacrifi ces, they achieved nothing and, instead, destroyed everything. The British anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith wrote a book titled A New Theory of Evolution (1948). In this book, referring to the history of Egypt, he observes how Egypt was Islamized during the Khilafat period commenting: “Egyptians were conquered not by the sword, but by the Koran.” (p. 303) If we compare this experience of the history of Egypt with the present failure of the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’, we will discover that the power of the Quran is greater than the power of the gun. But it is very strange that in the same land of Egypt, the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ is trying to achieve through the power of the gun what was achieved through the power of the Quran. The Quran is not a political manifesto of Muslims. The Quran is a book of ideology. The Quran is a power when it is used for peaceful Quranic activism. It is with regard to this point that the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ has failed — it takes the name of the Quran as a political agenda, and not for the basis of peaceful dawah. The best advice for the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ can be given in two words: reassess your policies and re-plan your activities on the basis of the Quran. The former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was deposed from his offi ce on July 3, 2013. He delivered a long speech on June 26, 2013 where he said: “Asabtu ahyanan wa akhtatu ahyanan