Maulana Wahiduddin Khan's blog

The cow is nature’s sign that shows how to live in this world. We may take in ‘grass’; but we must give out ‘milk.’ Even when people wrong us, we are required to convert that wrong into a right. Even when we are beset by adversity, we are required to turn it to good account.

One intrinsic quality of activity is movement. But in what direction? Are you moving towards your destination, or away from it? The actual motion in both cases seems to be no different in quality. The great difference between the two is that the former brings you ever nearer to your destination, while the latter takes you further and further away from it—leading you to nowhere. It is direction that is all-important.

Education is the first step towards the construction of a nation. Whenever the journey of a nation begins, it will certainly be from here; there is no other point from which to start. The real virtue of education is that it reveals to man the science of life thus making him a man in the real sense of the word.

There are two types of people in this world — the self-making type and the history-making type. The aim of those who are self-making is to serve themselves, whereas history-making people seek to serve humanity as a whole.