WHEN APPEARANCE REPLACES SUBSTANCE
Spirit of Islam, Nov-Dec 2021, p. 22
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.
These kinds of incendiary speeches are echoing all over the Muslim world today. They have made the Muslim youth very emotional. However, Muslims have no dominance over the nations they call non-Muslim nations because these nations have made themselves extremely powerful by accumulating all the power. Muslims are far behind them in every respect. Muslims were fired with zeal, and they needed some target to vent their anger. Now, Muslims have discovered “lamps of disbelief” among their Muslim brethren, and they are engaged in extinguishing them. Somewhere this jihad is going on through the barrage of bullets and where there are no such opportunities; some other form is being employed. The slogan of extinguishing the lamp of disbelief has become practically equivalent to extinguishing the lamp of Islam. Somewhere the military forces are hoisting the flags of victory by attacking their own country, somewhere the leaders themselves are killing their Muslim political rivals and taking the title of Mujahid, somewhere a party is doing the job of eliminating falsehood by targeting other members of the same community through armed aggression. o PATIENCE makes a person capable of finding a positive and successful solution to every problem

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