“Up till now Muslims have tended to attribute their problems to prejudice and discrimination and to waste the better part of their time and energy in railing against offenders who often exist only in their own imaginations. What I have to say is simply that it is high time they changed their way of thinking and devoted themselves whole-heartedly to the processes of self-reconstruction.”

— Wahiduddin Khan

quoted in Arun Shourie - The World of Fatwas Or The Sharia in Action (2012, Harper Collins)

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