FROM MAULANA'S DESK — Targeted Therapy

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. TARGETED THERAPY is a term used in the medical sciences. There are about 25,000 genes in the human body. Targeted therapy is a type of treatment that targets those specific genes that contribute to cancer growth, while leaving out other genes. To bring about change in human life, the starting point is to first change the human mind by bringing about change in the thinking process. Targeted therapy includes drugs that are aimed at specific genes that are only found in cancer cells that contribute to cancer growth and survival. This selective treatment carried out on a selective basis, is called targeted therapy. The same technique is required with regard to human reform. The basic factor governing the human being is the mind. There is a saying in the Bible: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23: 7 TARGETED THERAPY