"Muslim students have before them the example of Imam Hasan and Husain."
"Islam has not been kept alive by the sword, but by the many great fakirs (saints) with a high sense of honour whom it has produced."
Source:
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol 19, Letter #36, Pg 48-49.
Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1966.
Gandhi's Responses to Islam by D.K. Printworld, Jan 1, 1994.