ASK MAULANA

ASK MAULANA Your Questions Answered Maulana Wahiduddin Khan’s Interview on Peace & Terrorism with ANI Journalist in Agra, October 13, 2013 Namastey! Salam! I want a few words of blessing from you. Namastey! I pray for everyone—that they make themselves good and that they work for the betterment of the country. I’m very fortunate to interview a person like you. You have been working for peace and against terrorism for a long time. Terrorism has become a major problem for the country. Since it is such an immense problem, how do you think it can be solved? Don’t we need many more efforts than at present? My mission is not crowd-based. It is individual-based. I address the individual. We seek to help them transform their minds, their thinking. Across the world, many individuals have changed themselves through the efforts of this mission. They’ve abandoned negative thinking and have taken to positive thinking—even in countries that have earned a bad name for themselves, like Pakistan. You have received many national and international awards. This must have given you great joy. I feel joyful when I see an individual being transformed for the better. When someone tells me that he has abandoned hatred and left negativity and violence, I feel very happy. I don’t get happiness from awards. People just give them to me and I accept them. If you don’t get happiness from getting awards, at least they might act as an incentive for you to carry on with your work, is it not? No. I never talk or think about the awards, not even with any of my companions. I don’t remember which awards I have got. My work is my mission. Giving or not giving awards may be other people’s work. I consider human beings as important. If someone reads something that I have written, or listens and changes into a positive thinker, I regard myself as successful, and this gives me much joy. Almost everyone lives