Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Experience Sharing of CPS Member, Jaipur Literature Festival 2013 February 3, 2013

Clip length
2 min 45 sec
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team leader on the spirit driving volunteers, quoting Anis
“I kept wondering what force drives this team to do so well”
30 sec
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what drives volunteers to excel without being told
“What is the force driving every individual to take charge?”
34 sec
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team member's dua to be given hard dawah work
“He said: even send me to hell, but let me finish this work”
1 min 26 sec
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finding thousands of Qurans and trusting Allah sends the help
“We saw cartons of Quran and wondered how we'd distribute them all”
5 min 35 sec
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Ramesh's full account of Quran distribution at the festival
“When we reached our hotel, we saw cartons of Quran stacked in front”
1 min 15 sec
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full story of Ramesh's emotional request for a Quran
“A man came back that evening still wanting a Hindi Quran”
38 sec
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Hindu man asks if he can read the Quran
“My name is Ramesh, I'm Hindu — can I not read Quran?”
1 min 50 sec
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festival organizer and police officers embrace the Quran distribution
“The organizer said: Ramesh, you people are doing a great job”
27 sec
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dua to die while returning from doing dawah
“Let death come while we're returning home from spreading the message”
3 min 1 sec
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Saba's first festival experience, from nerves to overwhelming demand
“I went to Jaipur for the first time, and I was very nervous”
28 sec
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standing in the road handing out Qurans with both hands
“I stood in the middle of the road giving Quran with both hands”
1 min 26 sec
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proof that people actually read the Qurans they received
“I kept wondering — do these people really read it or just keep it?”
1 min 50 sec
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making sure no one wanting a Quran gets missed
“They asked us: are you giving it only to selective people?”
21 sec
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woman overjoyed getting the Quran she'd wished for
“It's like you ask God for something and He just gives it”
2 min 14 sec
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contrasting a communal clash with a missed dawah opportunity
“A news report of a Hindu-Muslim clash over a procession route struck me hard”
3 min 7 sec
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clash vs opportunity, explained through a hadith on purpose
“Here we were seizing an opportunity Muslims elsewhere were blind to”
38 sec
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hadith: animal vs believer knowing their purpose
“A hadith: an animal doesn't know why its owner placed it there”
2 min 35 sec
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a dream about names highlighted for Paradise
“That same night I dreamed of papers with every name of humanity on them”
4 min 43 sec
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Quranic promise and closing dua for the team's paradise
“A verse of the Quran came to my mind about entering the holy land”
1 min 58 sec
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Quranic verse: just step forward and unseen help arrives
“Allah said: just enter the holy land — that's all”
48 sec
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elderly speaker's vision of an angel calling for the team
“I have grown old, waiting for the day they call: where is CPS?”