FROM MAULANA’S DESK

Reasoning Ability Reason cannot be created but it can certainly be developed. Everyone has a two-fold duty of developing their reasoning ability and using it in life. Reason is a powerful potential of the human mind and we are duty bound to turn this potential into actuality. Progress can be attained only in an environment of competition and challenge, and not through favours granted. institutions and pursue serious study. There is no other choice in this matter. Here the principle of ‘compete or perish’, alone works. This scheme of things for development appears arduous, however it is so only for the initial generations. When a community faces such competitive situations, the people who begin this journey might face hardships, but their struggle would be for the greater good. Very soon, such a community would progress and the maxim ‘compete or perish’ would turn into ‘compete and succeed’. o Maulana Wahiduddin Khan editor@thespiritofislam.org