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But He has always told me and built the institutions with a 100 to 500 year perspective. So He doesn't respond to crises in the immediate unless it threatens the well-being or the livelihood or the life of the Jamat. He has lived through - I mean in his life, He started in the Second World War, lived through colonial times, postcolonial times, the winds of change, the Cold War. And all throughout those years, those many decades He worked with the governments that He had to work with, regardless of what their leanings were or the crises that were happening


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