Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Quran aur Asr-e-Jadeed Al-Risala, January 2017 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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2 min 16 sec
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Why the Quran's harsh words targeted specific 7th-century groups
“The Quran addressed four groups of its time: Jews, Christians, polytheists, disbelievers.”
5 min 19 sec
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From Quran's ancient context to today's friend-supporter world
“The Quran addressed four groups of people — but that was 1400 years ago.”
41 sec
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Muslims wrongly treat the whole world as enemy
“Muslims today consider the whole world their enemy.”
1 min 47 sec
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Ancient religious labels no longer apply to modern people
“The nations named in the Quran ceased to exist long ago.”
30 sec
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Old friend-enemy divide replaced by friend-supporter
“Today, no one in the world is anyone's enemy.”
2 min 29 sec
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Pre-Islamic friend-enemy culture and God's plan to end it
“Before Islam, the world's culture was: 'not my friend means my enemy.'”
5 min 28 sec
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How God engineered history to end friend-enemy enmity
“Before Islam, the culture of enmity ruled the world for thousands of years.”
28 sec
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Quran's plan to end enmity between people forever
“God's plan was to end this hostility for good.”
1 min 34 sec
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Modern Muslims must abandon hatred toward other nations
“Muslims who hate and fight other nations today don't know this reality.”
1 min 17 sec
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Three historical options for resolving human conflict
“There were three possible solutions to humanity's ancient conflict.”
1 min 28 sec
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Quran's ideology-method split and history's unilateral era
“The Quran's teachings split into an unchangeable core and a changing method.”
38 sec
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Quran has an unchangeable core and a changing method
“The Quran's teachings have two parts: ideology and method.”
4 min 38 sec
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From agrarian kingship to democracy: history's shift to mutual interest
“In the ancient world, only two things mattered: agriculture and kingship.”
42 sec
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Quran verse: turn enemies into close friends
“Good and evil are not equal — repel evil with what is better.”
2 min 25 sec
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Globalization has erased borders and enmity between nations
“Today the world has become a global village.”
3 min 41 sec
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Globalization as divine plan and a call to action for Muslims
“Today the world has become a global village.”
46 sec
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Air travel dissolved borders, made everyone a world citizen
“Every human today is literally a citizen of the whole world.”
29 sec
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Muslims must trade despair for hope-based action
“It's time for the Muslim ummah to abandon all negative action.”