having been able to meet him. The next day the Prophet came to the house of Ali and Fatima and asked what it was she had wanted to discuss with him, but Fatima remained silent. Then ‘Ali told the Prophet

settlement in favour of one of the parties, but in so doing, it may be that I take away from the other what is his rightful due. In that case, the one

actual needs of our consumers. We do, in fact, look after our customers better than anyone else.” What we learn from the Bata Shoe Company’s success is that if you want to take, you should try to give

of a sudden, he felt as though he had found something far greater than the water he had come for. What happened was quite simple. The villagers who visited the well for water, usually brought two earthen

him to share what they had cooked. The man happily went back home and said to his friends the next morning, “What you said was quite true. But you hadn’t told me the whole story. Of course, God does provide

has, end their quarrel and get busy developing their bits of land. This way to solve a dispute is what is called a ‘win-win solution’. This, to my mind, is the best and most practicable formula to solve

But experience tells us that in this world the size of a territory is only of relative importance. What is really important is the wise use of a territory’s resources. Numerous countries, such as Taiwan

however, everything has been rendered meaningless. What is needed to redress the balance is love, compassion, tolerance, forbearance and the spirit of co-existence. How can we attain peace? The formula

of existence in this world. However, a peaceful life can be achieved only when human beings learn what their limitations ought to be. According to the Divine law, you can take from the world whatever will

available to one at the very outset. If we fail to do so in the initial stage in a bid to get more than what we are being offered, we only prolong the conflict. Then the conflict is bound to become more complicated

gods was an evil. Seen in this light, the difficulties faced by the believers in the first phase of Islam were, in fact, challenges which awakened Muslim potential, ultimately transforming each Muslim—in

2. Only defensive war is permitted in Islam. Such a war is one in which aggression is committed by some other party so that the believers have to fight in self-defense. Initiating hostility is not permitted

which the Kashmiri Muslims should focus on is dawah. By dawah I mean communicating the message of Islam to others. In this regard, the Kashmiri Muslims have before them two very large fields of action—one

They must withstand provocation instead of giving in to it. This is the Sunnah of the Prophet of Islam, the sole path to success. Muslims have today to go on a ‘migration.’ But not a physical migration