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Choice Between Right and Wrong Battlefield January 26, 2007 Maulana Wahiddduin Khan

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Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 6128
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 23762
Muwatta by Imam Malik, Hadith No. 11
Quran 3:134 · Aal-Imran
Maghazi by Al-Waqidi, vol. 2, p. 610
Quran 48:1 · Al-Fath
Seerat Ibn Hisham, vol. 2, p. 404
Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 1385
Quran 21:68 · Al-Anbiya
Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 249
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Life is a struggle fought on the wrong battleground
“Life is a struggle for everyone, individual or state”
2 min 49 sec
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Americans admit Iraq was the wrong battleground for terror
“This report has a huge lesson in it for all of us”
2 min 34 sec
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9/11 was a crisis needing positive mind, not rage
“Even the superpower still picked the wrong battlefield”
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Maulana wept uncontrollably hearing of 9/11 attack
“I began to weep uncontrollably, without any control”
5 min 54 sec
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Kashmir and Pakistan finally admit violence was the wrong fight
“Here's an example from the 23rd January Times of India”
5 min 4 sec
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Prophet's mercy to a man who defiled the mosque
“I told them the sunnah of the Prophet, not the sword”
2 min 41 sec
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Prophet's hadith on managing anger before deciding anything
“A man asked the Prophet for one master piece of advice”
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Prophet's one-line life advice: don't be angry
“O Prophet, give me one master advice for my life”
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Maulana's personal trick for managing anger at home
“I also get angry in my own house sometimes”
4 min 12 sec
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Gandhi and Jinnah's reactive anger shaped the partition
“Basically everyone is acting purely out of reaction”
1 min 18 sec
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Gandhi's train-station humiliation set his life's course
“Big people do this too, even Mahatma Gandhi”
2 min 6 sec
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Palestine's armed struggle was reaction, not real jihad
“In Palestine, the Balfour partition gave a third of the land to Israel”
4 min 45 sec
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Hudaybiyyah: choosing peace over war multiplied the believers
“People ask why I always bring up Hudaybiyyah”
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Life summed up in two words: who won that night
“Life is undoubtedly a struggle, but fight it in the right field”
2 min 41 sec
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Prophet Abraham confronted an idol-conditioned society in Iraq
“Abraham was born in Iraq, in a city called Ur”
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Colleges weren't slaughterhouses, they were deconditioning
“Iqbal said education would bring freedom, not knowing it'd bring doubt too”
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A deconditioned bedouin instantly believed Muhammad's word
“A man rode in on a camel asking who among you is Muhammad”