Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Times of India I January 7, 2010 | Page 18
Every day in our life, we perhaps have some kind of bad experience, big or small. There is no escape from experiences. One has two options: either to ignore them or try to react. The first option is a form of forgiveness, while the other amounts to engagement and in some cases, even revenge.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Times of India I December 10, 2009 | Page 16
Everyone, both young and old, complains of stress or tension – a common phenomenon of our times. There are several centres established in order to enable de-stressing but these provide, at the most, only temporary relief. None of them offer any permanent solution. Tension is only the negative name of a positive phenomenon. What is generally called tension is, in fact, a sign of a healthy life. It is not an evil but a blessing in disguise.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Times of India I November 13, 2009 | Page 16
In the 1930s, I was a student of a village madrasa in UP. There I studied an ”Urdu Reader" in which there was a poem composed by the well-known poet, Ismail Meerathi. It was titled "Hamari Gaye" (Our Cow). One of the verses went like this:
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Times of India I October 9, 2009 | Page 18
Human life can be likened to a flowing river. What is a river? A river in fact is a unique phenomenon of nature. In the river fresh water is being added to the existing water at every moment. This everyday phenomenon is responsible for the freshness of the river water.
