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soft rock · #**137** Saturday, October 18, 2014

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Originally Posted by Malik Ubaidullah

A few days ago i came across a write up which asserted that, we as a nation, have deviated from the path Jinnah had envisaged for us. It said that Jinnah dreamt of a secular Pakistan, free from any sort of religious prejudice.
Many books, i have read argue that Pakistan was acquired in the name of Islam and thus was meant to be a true religious state while many others contend that the primary reason behind the Independence movement was to secure a state where muslims were politically free and thier social identity maintained and that religion was only secondary motive.
Need your views.
Dont you people think that this 'Ideology tussle' between Islamists and Seculars is the root cause of the current political and social turmoil in Pakistan?
Regards

Well ! Naturally the motive behind the creation of Pakistan was to win a state where Muslims could live their life with some rest. History states that Pakistan is the apex of the thoughts of Al-Beruni ,almost 1000 years ago..The concept which the agitators of Pakistan movement revived after finding not any sound quality of life in the sub-continent. Contending for the belief that Pakistan was aimed to be Secular State is a reality to its own extent but has very limited significance in having a separate state for Muslims...And for that reason can not be wholesome motive behind having a separate homeland for the Muslims of the sub-continent, of mainly four province we have had after 1947.

Pakistan Movement was not aimed at saving the political identity of Muslims merely..as many writers maintain this view but it was just a causative factor in the political arena at that time and onwards which booted the Pakistan Movement. Muslims have had need not to be only politically identified if we we tried to perceive it from other perspectives of life. Muslims who were suppressed needed a state where their other aspects of life like social , economical , religious, legal, administrative etc etc, could save as well. Can anyone think that political identity has any overlapping over these other spheres of life..though its a reality that political causes boasted the safety of these other aspect of life for Muslims..and reason for that was Muslims were like sandwiched between Hindus and British..where both were secular to their concerned possible extents . So to get non-sandwitched Muslims needed to put forward the demand for political identity, which took real shape in 1909 though problematic , but it was not what the writers use to call that Pakistan was created based on secularism .That,s a totally limited minded approach to the concept of creation of Pakistan Or otherwise such writers are secular who restricts the concept of creation of Pakistan..

Pakistan is not a state where only politicians and agitators of political parties live and even those politician and agitator are not totally political entities they are naturally created human being and not political robots i would say, and if they behave like political robots they have lost the meaning of their life.They need to have a broad concept and most claim that as well but the scenarios around are telling different stories...

Besides Political robots / Political Icons /agitators there are also other people being iconic concerning other different spheres of life ..who you may call having no concern with politics at all. ..but most of their rights are safe because of politics in this country. Every sphere of life has its own significance and we the Pakistanis are not totally political since 1947. We have variety of icons.

Though its a fact that opinion is divided about the purpose of creation of this country....some claim secularism while others Islamisation...but if we concentrate a little more on what threshold created the difference between Muslims and Hindus...we can easily figure out that it was always the same concept which never let the Hindus and Muslims live together and that's religious concept. but it is always prejudicial from the perspective of Hindus.

Here I cite three factual scenarios to support the view that Pakistan was not created secularist but Islamist in nature.

1. If we cite the example of Our Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) and Abu_Jahal its obvious that Abu_Jahal was against Islam . Our Holy Prohphet was never against the other religions of that time... and Its obvious from Islamic teachings as it is stated by the Holy Qur'an that "There is no compulsion in religion( to force someone to become Muslim is not allowed in Islam ). All I mean is that its the secular view/worldly view was an integral factor that intensified the difference between Muslims and Hindus. In Islam its clear cut mentioned that different races have been made among human beings just to make them know each other well. it shows the place of humanity in Islam.

2. Though the idea that Pakistan Movement was moved by the force of political view is a reality but its often not taken in notice that why the Muslims only fought politically to save their identity. The point in here is that on the other side Gandhi and his followers ware political, who needed a political beat in order to save the real identity of Muslims and not only political which is termed as secular Pakistan by secularist..which in other words mean that we are secular ..Are we??? the answer is not at all!!!..Plus it must also be taken into account that when the rule of congress ministries emerged in 1936-37 their real religious color also appeared in politics. Which was called even a nightmare for Muslims by British writers.

3. Similar is the case with constitution of Pakistan though it is has secular elements i mean has some color of the British Constitution but it would be wrong to say that the Constitution of Pakistan is secular..because it has the Islamic elements more than its believed been based on British Constitution. There is no other conceptually better text than that of the Holy Qur'an.. And its Holy Qur'an which guarantees all the rights of all humanity ..And on the other secularism can not guarantee the safety of rights of all humanity..not even for the secularists the universal rights they deserve as human beings..and since the start of past decade human rights violation has been witnessed and how much severe was its extent it was also witnessed. Taking new shapes and new forms day by day.

4. Secularism can be under the shadow of Islamization to shap the secularists views in consonance with nature but Islamization can not be shaped by secularists.Because its only the religion of Islam which is right and perfect for all humanity. And all that happened against Muslims during the last decade and onwards , were bordered by the secularists to combat Islam which is naturally a right religion but it can never be beaten and the truth of Islam can never be seized by the falsehood of secularism..Which is the cause of tension in the secular world. Real believer of Islam are at rest and they are praying to God for the betterment of the situation of the rest of the world.

So trying to re-shape the ideology of Pakistan as being secular is vague is desire. It was Natural Islam which facilitated us this country we are living in..though life is not up to the mark because of variety of factors..but we despite of those problems are living a life we want to.

Regards All...