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Originally Posted by Faseeh Muhammad
What is a religious state? A state that follows certain religions code in its running? But what makes an state or what it takes to make a state? The answer is masses, in our case the mass is "Muslim" religiously.
So what does it mean to make a state "Religious" when majority of its people are Muslims? It means and it shows the distrust over the democratic value that Quaid always promoted and nothing else. If we had believed in democracy, we would have remained state secular. contrary to it, we believe in aristocracy, plutocracy and mulho-cracy, therefore we make hue and cry that "Safeguard the state by declaring it Islamic"
To me, states of US, Japan, EU, even India (to certain extent) are more Islamic, in the sense that they follow the rules they made, they don't cheat public, they do work for welfare of masses, they don't take bribe, if any one found guilty of it they punish it, eduction is free and every one has equal opportunity to get educated, they take care of their senior citizens, they work for their country, they work for welfare of their fellows and they do not evade tax.
My point is that the practices of good-governance advocated in Islam have such universal application and appeal that it really don't need an state to be Islamic to work. It really does not matter whether the state is Islamic or not, if you follow teachings of Islam in word and spirit, you and your state will progress. And that was the purpose of creation of Pakistan.
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Quaid said, "we did not demand Pakistan simply to have a piece of land but we wanted a labarotary where we could experiment on Islamic principles"
further he said, "we should base our democracy on the principles and concepts of Islam".
so these sayings of Quaid laid foundation of the ideology of Pakistan and Pakistan is an ideological state, whose ideology is based on Islam. so how can we say that it should be a secular state rather than an Islamic state.
2nd thing is the deteriorating condition of Pakistan and it is because Pakistan of today is far away from her ideology. we have to promote its ideology rather than promoting the ideas of making Pakistan a secular state.
If Pakistan should be a secular state then what about the following provisions of our constitution?
should we amend these provisions?
1:- Name of Country (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)
2:- Islam as state religion
3:- President should be Muslim.
4:- Prime Minister should be Muslim
5:- All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah and no law shall be enacted which is repugnant to such injunctions.
because a secular state doesnot represent a single religion.
so we must restore ideology of Pakistan rather than making her a secular state.