THE AGE OF CIVILISATION
Spirit of Islam, Jan 2016, p. 41
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
If there are no differences, there will be no intellectual development. The problem arises when we are unable to manage differences. What is the art of difference management? Settling differences through peaceful negotiations. It is to apply reason to settle differences as was applied to the discoveries of nature. The civilised way of managing differences is to apply reason and to try to settle it through peaceful dialogue. The age of civilisation is still incomplete. It has offered us material comforts but is yet to find peaceful ways to settle differences in a civilised manner. When that happens, the age of civilisation will have truly arrived. o The civilised way of managing differences is to apply reason and to try to settle it through peaceful dialogue. Wait and Watch When the development of any event is not to our liking, we must maintain normalcy and patiently wait for the future. We must adopt the policy of ‘wait and watch’ and refrain from jumping to conclusions. Manage Crisis God has given so much wisdom to man that he can think through any crisis. No crisis is big enough to bring to halt the thinking capacity of mind.

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