Dawn: by Vaqar Ahmad: If I were a rational person I would not be writing this blog. In the past I have lamented the proliferation of garbage, lauded junkies and soothsayers at a sufi saint’s shrine, delved into nostalgia about rail travel, and written about other harmless subjects. These blogs and features received mostly bouquets and some brickbats from the readers.
But today I want to talk about a very difficult subject. No, I am not confessing that I am a serial killer or a closet drag queen; sorry, nothing juicy like that. This particular subject has been like a thorn in my heart for many years but good judgment and sane counsels from friends has stopped me from pulling it out of my heart and speak out what I really think about it. Pakistan’s poet laureate Faiz Ahmed Faiz perfectly expressed this feeling thus:
Harf-e-haq dil mein khatakta hey jo kantey ki tarha
Aaj izhar karein aur khalish mi tjaey
(The truth that lives in the heart like a thorn)
(Speak it out, now, and banish the pain)
You see, I have a serious problem with the question, “What is the ideology of Pakistan?” I can see you, dear reader, sniggering and saying, “Every man, woman, transvestite, child, the 25 per cent literate or the 75 per cent illiterate, and even some intelligent well brought up parrots know that there is a single word answer to this question, and it is Islam. Even the country’s full name is “The Islamic Republic of Pakistan” and according to the constitution, “only a Muslim can become the head of the state”.
Categories: Asia, Behaviour, Civil Rights, Pakistan
According to the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah ,religion have no concern with the matters of State. i,e no discrimination on the basis of religion and full freedom of religion. It shows that Pakistan was created for Muslims not for Islam.Quaid-E-Azam was a secular and liberal Muslim Leader.
Even Islam when Qur’an says ” La Iqrah Fi Din ” ( No compulsion in Religion) is a secular Religion. The Extremist presents their own ideology which not comply with Islam sent by Rabul Aalameen through Rematulil Aalameen.