INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL

Once, a gentleman joined me on my journey—I saw that whenever he got the opportunity, he would take out a copy of the Arabic Quran from his pocket and read from it. He told me that he had been doing this for fourteen years. I asked him, “What is the gist of the Quran?” Despite being an educated man, he replied, “I just recite the Arabic words. I have never given attention to its meanings.” This is not an isolated case. All Muslims do just that. May God enable all of us to read the Quran correctly, to know the truth that He has declared in the Quran, to discover the wisdom contained in the Quran, and then to become true believers, to be true worshippers.  Peace is a product of a positive mental attitude, while violence is the result of negative thinking.