The Ideology of Peace by Maulana Waiduddin Khan - page 69

Ideology of Peace
POSITIVE STATUS QUOISM
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experienced the feeling of discovery enjoy mental
peace. Their lives remain eternally peaceful.
Those individuals or groups who feel hatred for
others, and who stoop to violence in their dealings
with them, prove by their behaviour that their
grievances derive from a sense of deprivation. On
the contrary, those individuals or groups who lead
peaceful lives prove by their behaviour that they
have experienced the feeling of finding what they
truly desire in life. The mind of a frustrated person
is always obsessed with the prevalent state of
affairs. While a person whose mind is free from the
psychology of frustration will be capable of
thinking by rising above the immediate
circumstances. Thus a frustrated person is a
present–oriented person while a person free from
frustration is a future oriented person.
VIOLENCE UNNECESSARY
Social violence is against real human nature.
Violence, the greatest of all crimes, is lethal to
humanity. In spite of this, why do people engage in
violence? The reason is that they take into account
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