SPIRIT OF ISLAM JULY 2O18

46 Spirit of Islam Issue 67 July 2018 ASK MAULANA Your Questions Answered Maulana Wahiduddin Khan answers your questions on society and spirituality. Some people talk about a world without borders, what is your opinion about this? A world without borders is one in which people should be able to live anywhere, work anywhere and contribute anywhere—for the world is one. All thinking people have a beautiful dream—that of living in a world without borders. But for all these people, this only remains a dream, as no one has ever been able to actualize it. As far as I am concerned I can say that I have made it a reality. I always actually live in a world without borders. In my experience, the concept of a world without borders is quite an achievable target. In a single sentence, I can say that a world without physical borders may not be achievable, but a world without psychological borders is quite attainable for anyone who so desires it. There is no need for external permission for this purpose: every individual can enter into this state—by his own decision. In one of your articles you have presented spirituality as a solution to eradicate corruption. My question is, how to inculcate spirituality among people? Basically I feel it is a part of education, both formal and informal. Education means the training of the mind, with special emphasis on inculcating high values. To spread spiritual values in society, we need value-based education, especially during schooling, which is a preparatory period of life, and if we want to build a spiritual society, we must adopt a spirituality-oriented form of education. Kindly explain how exactly spirituality will stop a person from being corrupt? One aspect of spirituality is that it makes one evaluate actions in terms of their results—a major factor in having a sense of responsibility. One who is a spiritually developed person is able to see things in terms of value. He is able to differentiate between right and wrong. There is a saying: ‘A wise man is one who knows the relative value of things.’ The spiritually developed person is a wise person and a wise person is one