36. How do we change Muslims’ revenge-seeking attitude?

Since the last two hundred years, Muslims have been struggling – for their life and property – but have got nothing in return. Now experience is telling them that all the violence in the name of Islam should be abandoned, as this violence is based on falsehood and has not yielded any result.

After a Muslim struggle spanning over thirty years for the Babri Masjid, nothing could be achieved. Then I compared how Japan re-planned after WWII and within thirty years emerged as an economic superpower. Here we found nothing in thirty years of struggle and in Japan there was a re-emergence. This could happen because the Japanese put behind what they had lost.

They did not spend a day to fret over what had happened. One Babri Mosque was demolished for Muslims but for Japan, an entire industrial edifice had been crushed. But the Japanese refused to waste their time on revenge and began planning afresh.

God has set examples of communities – Japan and Germany – so that Muslims pay heed and re-plan. This is when the Quran’s message was not sufficient for them. But even if now Muslims do not retract, then they will not receive divine help.