FROM MAULANA'S DESK

FROM MAULANA’S DESK 1. The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims 2012, Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Jordan. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, born in 1925, in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, is an Islamic spiritual scholar who is well-versed in both classical Islamic learning and modern disciplines. The mission of his life has been the establishment of worldwide peace. He has received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour in India, and the Demiurgus Peace International Award. He has been called ’Islam’s spiritual ambassador to the world’ and is recognised as one of its most influential Muslims1. His books have been translated into sixteen languages and are part of university curricula in six countries. He is the founder of the Centre for Peace and Spirituality based in New Delhi. L IFE is the art of making right decisions. Successful is one who is able to take right decisions at crucial moments. Someone who is not able to do this shall ruin his life. There is certainly no alternative to right decision-making. Sometimes, man is caught between reason and emotions. On one hand, there are emotional pressures from family, from friends etc and on the other hand there is a rational demand. In such situations, don’t waste your time. Follow the practical formula: ignore the emotional pressure and respond to the rational demand positively. Emotional pressures are always manageable but rational demands do not give man a second option. We should learn the art of managing the emotional pressure in an appropriate manner and opt for the rational demand. This is the only advisable course of action in such a situation. Once, a woman wanted my advice on an issue she was facing. She was working in a multinational company and sometimes she used to return late from work. This job was a necessity for her. Each time this used to happen, her mother used to get angry. My advice to her was that she should maintain the job. Reason suggests that she should fulfil its demands properly so as to not lose the job. As far as her mother’s FOLLOW REASON, MANAGE EMOTIONS