"If there is one man doing argument something  wrong, we should not take his example and do wrong things ourselves. Pakistan and Islam cannot mean the non-Muslims cannot live there. The empire of Islam has spread far and wide. Nowhere has it laid down that non-Muslims cannot live in peace within its reign, Islam has lived on for the last 1,300 years. Great renunciations and sacrifices have been made for its principles. If any other type of (intolerant) Islam emerges, it would not be genuine. It would not be acceptable to true Muslims at all.

 "Think over this: True India is not that in which none but the Hindus can live. True Christianity is not that which does not accept anyone who is not a Christian. Only irreligion can be intolerant. The world has not followed the path of intolerant irreligion, is not following it now, and will not follow it in future. Why should we then write a new history? Let us not ruin India and let us not allow Pakistan to be ruined. I have no desire to witness the destruction of true religion, to see the country ruined. If anything I only want to say that we should all die bravely in the attempt to remove the evils in our country.'

                                                                                      (Praver Meeting, 19 September, 1997)