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Spirit of Islam, January-February 2026, p. 14
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.
This is because the Creator has designed this world based on the principle of challenge and response. The key to individual or societal progress is to let nature operate freely. Any other principle would be man-made and can never be practically implemented. This is the natural model. The model of competition is motivating. In contrast, the socialist model is demotivating. Now is the time for us to adopt a model based on motivation and to fully abandon the model that leads to demotivation. The final moment has arrived for us to replan India’s development. Once, John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006), a former US ambassador to India, said in a statement, India is a functioning anarchy. I do not see this as criticism but as a challenge, and I pray that India becomes an ideal democracy. Don’t Take Things As Evil. Face Them As Challenges.

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