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There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.

— Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

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Badshah Khan by Eknath Easwaran (Penguin Books).

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