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The term ENLIGHTENED MODERATION came in the wake of the 9/11 international terrorism attacks where Islam has been associated with terror,violence and extremism.And the western media has only helped to strenghten this perception which is based largely on ignorance and historical prejudice,going back in time to the battle between the Cross and the Crescent.

Ironically,we have been the culprits to help the western media strengthen this image.Successive Pakistani governments,wittingly or unwittingly,have only served to consolidate the image of Pakistan as a theocratic State by simply paying lip-service to the Islamic ideology of Pakistan.The framers of the Constitution made matters worse by officially declaring Pakistan as the Islamic Republic.This tag has not done any service to Islam but has done a lot of harm to Pakistani Muslims.During the rule of Zia,once again an attempt was made to criticize Islam by means of a State controlled electronic media and also by bringing about certain changes in the Constitution.What's worst is that some of the politicians prided to politicize Islam for their own selfish reasons right from the beginning which led,over a period of time,to a very negative image of Pakistan as a country.All these measures badly tarnished the name of Islam as a progressive and enlightened religion.As against that,India encashed on international politics from the very beginning by declaring itself a secular State,while the ground reality was and is,that Hinduism has been a major factor in Indian politics.The Babri Mosque incident is too fresh to be forgotten.

The very unfortunate 9/11 catastrophy ironically,has proved to be a blessing in disguise and consequently,to counter this negative image of Islam some state leaders in the Islamic world,like President General Pervaiz Musharraf,felt the need to provide a more tolerant and balanced image,both internally as well as externally and thus took bold steps.

The results were predictable.Some of the half educated Muslim clerics failed to understand that without making a departure from the basic teachings of Islam the Muslim society needs to adapt itself to the needs of the modern century.Islam is a complete code of life and not just a religion which obviously means it's adaptable to changing circumstances.

In this context we must remember that in his very first public address after the independence of Pakistan,the Quaid had declared that "all citizens of Pakistan,irrespective of their cast,colour and creed would enjoy an equal status".He had further said that religion is the private business of every individual.The wisdom behind such statements was to save Pakistan from the danger of dismemberment which plagued the Sub-continent.

We also need to remember that the people of Pakistan,in all the general elections,have never voted any religious party into power except in the last general elections when MMA got majority in the N.W.F.P and Baluchistan,but that was in context of the post 9/11 situation.

The interesting fact is that the vast majority of the population of Pakistan have been practicing moderation whereas the term ENLIGHTENED MODERATION is the coinage of recent years.Thus,it is just an official attestation of the Pakistani set-up.

The bottom line is that religion has never been a problem in Pakistan except that vested interests have tried to make it so for their own selfish reasons!!!
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thats a good article but i dont agree that it is wrong to declare pakistan as an Islamic republic in the constitution
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Salam,

Sory for being late
i'll just comment on second Paragraph.

First of all our media couldn't play any sound role to strengthen the image of Pakistan.
Secondly Declaring Pakistan as an Islamic state was not a wrong idea, but not declaring the exact essence of Islamic Ideology was wrong. As far as India's declaration of being a secular state is concerned, every one knows the extent of Secularism in India.
In my opinion, it is not necessary to enhance our image by following India's strategies. We may choose a differentiated path. I totally agree that simply declaring Pakistan as an Islamic state depriciated the iamge of Pakistani Muslims, but at the same time i disagree that Pakistan should have been declared as a Secular state, instead the realities and explainations of Islamic ideology should have been presented.

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I do agree with 36th Common that the 73 Constitution should have been secular, because secularism is not akin to an immoral and aetheistic govt.....it just means that the govt. is indifferent to the religions in the country and does not discriminate on the basis of religion.....Waisay bhi in this civilized world of today where religious discrimination is highly criticised and is termed as against the Universal Fundamental Rights, there's no sense of discriminating on the basis of religion.....Aakhir how can we say that a Christian Pakistani is not as good as a Muslim Pakistani......If this discrimination is removed, i am sure even then the majority status of the Muslims won't be affected but it would surely have a positive effect on the image of Pakistan in the int'l comity as a liberal n moderate country......So, their's nothing bad in having a secular state (i.e. having no state religion) based on broad Islamic principles......I think that the US Constitution which is a secular one is more Islamic in essence than the islamic Contitution of Pakistan because it ensures a democratic form of govt with full independence to judiciary (which is not given in the 73 Constitution and also the 73 Constitution fails to safegaurd itself against military rules and Article 6 has proved itself impotent!) and also a very impressive list of fundamental rights to the citizens. The 73 Constitution makes a mockery of itself by first declaring that everyone is equal b4 the law and there shall be no discrimination and then putting forth the restriction that only a Muslim can be a Head of State!......And as far as India is concerned, at least it is secular in letter and at least it is secular enough to let the country be ruled by MUSLIM PRESIDENTS and SIKH PRIME MINISTER!!!!! can u even imagine of such a situation in Pakistan.......! Jahan tak Babri masjid kaa sawaal hai.....hum khud konsay acchay hain.......every now n then v hear of some churches being burnt down and in Purana Lahore and Purana Pindi, one can see dilapidated temples and also Gurdawaras changed into stables!.......

BUT A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE OF CAUTION TO 36th COMMON........!!! DON'T U DARE WRITE SUCH THINGS IN THE PAPER IF U WANT TO PASS :P
So.......even i won't write such things in the CSS paper......cuz v can easily see the mood of the examiner by the tonnes of LEADING QUESTIONS in the papers......if u don't believe me, just read the Islamiat Paper 2005 and see how the Examiner forces us to write what he wants us to listen!!!
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This notion of ‘Moderate Islam’ has been emerged as a reaction to the so-called ‘Extremist Islam’. Some half educated Muslims believe that all the miseries and all the difficulties upon which the whole Muslim Ummah has been trapped, has only two reasons namely; (i) that all the Muslims throughout the world do not follow their own (i.e. that small group’s) particular interpretation of Islamic teachings and; (ii) all the other nations of the world are doing nothing but just conspiring their some ill agenda towards Muslims.

So this small group of half educated Muslims hates all those Muslims who happen to follow some different interpretation of Islam and they also hate all the other nations of the world particularly three i.e. (i) Jews, (ii) Hindus and; (iii) Christians.

We cannot have any doubt in the sincerity of this small extremist group for the betterment of Islam. They are really very sincere to Islam by their heart. An extremist Sunni, for example, would do a real great service, in his mind, for the ‘cause’ of Islam when he kills some shias and vice versa. In the same way, these extremist people, in their own feelings, are really very sincere for the cause of Islam when they hate or try to promote hatred towards other nations.

The problem is not with the sincerity of this extremist group. They are good sincere Muslims by their heart. The only problem is the boundless volume of grave ignorance, which they possess. Their ignorance is evident in the fact that they do not know any cause of the decline of Muslim societies other than above-mentioned two reasons. They do not know that Muslims are behind in science and technology just because they themselves have just marginal contribution towards the knowledge of science and technology. Instead of knowing this, what they know is that all what westerns know today, was actually told to them by the ancient Muslim scientists. In their minds, they already know all the hidden secrets of Universe so there is no need to try to find any new secret of Universe. Since they already know all the possible secrets of Universe, so the only thing needed is that all other nations also should believe in those absolute secrets. What are those secrets? These are something like that a man must have this much certain length of beard. That people belonging to a particular sect of Islam are kaffirs, in fact. In order that people regularly offer prayers, there is a need of special state police force. That a particular sect is ‘Murttad’ so it is all right to kill the members of that sect. Another universal fact, which they know is something like that, all other nations are all time busy in making more and more conspiracies against Muslims.

Despite their all ignorance, they possess certain positive qualities. They ‘know’ the ‘problems’ and they also ‘know’ the ‘solution’. The ‘problems’ have been discussed above. Solution is of course ‘Jihad’. Meaning of ‘Jihad’ is ‘fighting’. Their real positive quality is that they really fight. They fight for what they consider true and right. So they do not possess negative or destructive intentions. Their intentions are positive because they struggle for the cause of righteousness. They are wrong however because their concept of righteousness is not right.

Their negative quality is that they hate others on quite wrong basis. Their positive quality is that what they consider right, they do struggle for its achievement, and in a way, which they consider right.

Their conscience can be doubted but their intentions cannot be. They think it necessary that in order that people regularly offer their prayers, there should be a special police force. When they really form their government somewhere, they then really establish one such special police force. Their criminal laws include such punishments as for not offering the prayers, and for not keeping beard of a certain length. By doing this sort of things, they just follow their own ignorant minds. They claim to follow the Shariah of Islam. But they never bother to see that according to the essence of Quranic punishments, human authorities are authorized to punish the people only in those matters, which relate to “Haqooq-ul-Ibad”. Thus Quranic Punishments include the punishment for murder, for theft and for other matters relating to ‘Haqooq-ul-Ibad’. But Quranic Punishments do not include punishment for not offering the prayers, punishment for not keeping beard of any certain length and so on. Human authorities have not been authorized by Quran to give punishment in any matter, which relates to ‘Haqooq-Allah’. Because according to the essence of Quranic teachings, punishment in the matters of ‘Haqooq-Allah’ shall be given to the wrong doers in their after life, and by God Almighty himself.

So extremists are actually those people who want to take authority of God also in their own hands. And they do it not due to their any negative intention. They do it just because of their ignorance. Their role for the nation is that of a ‘fool well-wisher’.

Now come to see who are these so-called ‘moderate’ Muslims. These are ‘silent majority’ Muslims. They just like their routine lives and do not want any disturbance in their daily routines. They are quite peaceful. They do not care much about what is going on internationally because most of the international affairs have little to do with their daily routines. At the same time, the do get themselves well informed on various international matters. They often talk about cruelties and double standards of westerns but they know that they can do nothing against those westerns. Having this characteristic, they can be considered to be much passive than those ‘extremists’ because ‘extremists’, after all do take some practical steps. ‘Moderate’ Muslims know that they, as a nation, are just following the dictations of west but they do not feel much ashamed of this fact. They just prefer their daily routines and do not undertake to perform their any role towards the correction of the situation. They put all the responsibility either on government or on ‘others’ and again got themselves busy in their routines. So in this way the ‘extremists’ do wrong efforts whereas these so-called ‘Moderate’ Muslims do nothing at all. This ‘silent majority’ has no positive program to be acted upon. The only thing, which it has, is just its ‘silence’.

What is needed?

Obviously this ‘moderate’ Islam is not the need of the day. Slogan of ‘Moderate Islam’ has been created just to show before westerns that all the Muslims are not extremists and therefore ‘terrorists’. Intention was just to show that majority Muslims are quite peaceful. ‘Extremists’ hate others and want to promote hate for others just due to their ignorance. ‘Moderate Muslims’ on the other hand are ‘peaceful’ not because they have found any corrective solution in their peace. They are ‘peaceful’ just because they do not want to disturb their routine lives and they also find themselves quite helpless before the mighty power of the west. So this ‘peace’ is actually a sign of their crowdedness. Rather than these ‘moderate’ Muslims, there is actually a need of ‘progressive’ Muslims. These should be the people who should not hate others on just baseless things. There is no need to hate any Jew just because he/she is a Jew. Similarly there is no need to hate any Hindu or Christian just because he/she is Hindu or Christian. But there is definite need to hate cruel whether they are Hindus, Jews, Christians or even Muslims. There is definite need to hate those who hate others just because of religious or sectarian differences. There is no need to adopt any absolute ‘peace’. There is definite need to try to become masters of our own destiny, rather than just following the dictations of the west. There is need to feel ashamed of our mistakes and weaknesses. There is need to investigate and find out the real causes of our present day’s backwardness as compared to Westerns. We, as a nation, have been quite addict to the finding of easy solutions to all the problems. Present competitive world is more complex and we must accept that our present policy of finding easy solutions shall not be useful. There is a need of a class of ‘progressive’ Muslims who should devote their lives in the analysis of national crises with the view to find out workable solution to the problem. There is definite need of social reforms and there is need to well educate the entire society. We should be peaceful but not because of our any weakness. We should be peaceful and at the same time we should not compromise our national dignity and honor. We should be peaceful in the sense that we should not force others to follow our dictations. We should not be peaceful in this sense that we have no other option but to follow the dictations.
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