Maulana Wahiduddin Khan's blog

Avoidance of friction is one of the most important principles of Islam. Such avoidance means refraining from retaliation on all occasions of complaint and dissension.

Whenever the state of peace prevails in a society in the real sense, its members will necessarily engage themselves in positive activities. Their energies will be channelized into the reconstruction of their own lives and of their social environment.

Violence is not the solution to the problems of the world. It only aggravates matters and will never give a solution. The only solution is to live, lies on the path of peace.

Fasting awakens in man the feeling of gratefulness. The temporary deprivation of food and water stresses for him the importance of these things as divine blessings. It increases manifold his feelings of gratitude to God.