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My Discovery of Truth January 8, 2006 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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1 min 34 sec
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Quran and Hadith agree: humans born in divine nature
“Quran ki surah Al-Rum, chapter thirty, verse thirty”
41 sec
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Hadith: every child born upon the fitrah
“Sahih Bukhari mein hai: kullu mawloodin yoladu alal fitrah”
28 sec
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Every human is a Truth Seeker by birth
“Every human being is Truth Seeker by birth”
4 min 55 sec
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Father's death, sudden silence, and a childless desire for anything
“29 December 1929 — the day my father died”
2 min 27 sec
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Orphaned as a child, I suddenly went silent
“Meri maa batati hain jab tak baap zinda the”
5 min 44 sec
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Years spent silently watching nature turned into a search for God
“Lekin aas paas mere ek badi cheez maujood thi: nature”
1 min 53 sec
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Nights under open sky watching stars, sunrise, sunset
“Mujhe yaad hai, main raat ko khuli jagah sota tha”
5 min 10 sec
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The papaya tree moment his search for truth became a search for God
“Aadamgarh ki masjid, akela ek papeetay ke ped ke neeche”
46 sec
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The cry under the papaya tree: God, when will You come
“Meri zaban se nikla rote huye: Khudawand tu kab aayega?”
45 sec
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Same cry repeated years later under a telegraph pole
“Ek telegraph ke pole ke neeche, phir wahi aansu”
2 min 43 sec
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He predicted a 1999 solar eclipse forty years early
“Maine yeh likha tha 1960 mein, waqia se 40 saal pehle”
1 min 42 sec
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A scientist claimed he found a flaw in gravity
“Ek European author ne kaha maine universe mein ek defect dhoonda”
5 min 46 sec
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Feeling God everywhere while writing his book, and Col. Irwin on the moon
“Jab main God Arises likh raha tha, ajeeb kaifiyat tari thi”
58 sec
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Scientist calls cosmic ripples "the handwriting of God"
“These ripples are no less than the handwriting of God”
4 min 7 sec
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Quran's rataq-fataq verse and the Big Bang theory
“Zameen aur aasman rataq the, phir humne unhein phaara”
2 min 22 sec
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One Quran verse silenced a debate about God's existence
“Kuch log behas kar rahe the: kya khuda hai ya nahi?”
5 min 3 sec
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Science as God's new weapon for spreading the same old truth
“Khuda ne humein dawat ke liye naya scientific hathiyar diya hai”
41 sec
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Pride in Quranic science is a sin, not an achievement
“Main fakhar ko ek sin samajhta hoon”
1 min 5 sec
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Dawah is well-wishing, not proving your religion superior
“Dawah apni baraai batane ke liye nahi hoti”
2 min 38 sec
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Yusuf Islam felt God directly addressing him in the Quran
“Yusuf Islam ke bhai ne unhein ek Quran ka nuskha diya”
50 sec
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Real Islam is contemplation, not meditation or trance
“Asal Islam mein sochna hai, na ke muraqaba”
1 min 40 sec
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God's test has always been the same: money or truth
“Bhai test to hamesha ek hi rehta hai khuda ka”
2 min 21 sec
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This world is an exam hall, not the reward itself
“Yeh duniya aapki testing ground hai, paradise nahi”
3 min
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Unlimited desires can never be met in a limited world
“Limited duniya hai humari, unlimited khwahishein hamari hoti hain”