Pakistan was not founded on secular
concepts such as language, ethnicity or regional nationalism. In fact,
it negated all those concepts. The idea of Pakistan’s creation was that
Muslims are separate nation because of their religion and they need a
separate homeland in Muslim majority states of India for creation of an
Islamic state where they can practice Islam in private and public
sphere.
Vast majority of Muslims in
Indian-Subcontinent supported the Pakistan movement and in 1946
elections, 76% Muslims voted for Muslim League and the Muslim league got
more Muslim votes from the states where Muslims were a small minority,
now part of India. Muslims living in Bombay, Madras, UP, CP and other
States knew that they will never be able become citizens of Pakistan and
they would not enjoy the independence but they voted for Muslim League
and supported the creation of Pakistan despite the fact that they will
also have to suffer the wrath of Hindus and Indian Congress. They made
this great sacrifice for Islam hoping that Pakistan will become an
Islamic State and thus lead the revival of Ummah of Holy Prophet
Muhammad (PBUH)
After 65 years of its creation, let alone making Pakistan a Modern Islamic State
we are still debating or a secular elite fringe has drawn us to debate
whether the country was made to be a secular state or an Islamic State.
Looking at purpose and basis of Pakistan’s creation this may sound like
debating at night, whether earlier in the morning the sun rose from the
east or west. The country which had clear vision, real purpose, sacred
mission behind its creation, blood and sacrifices of millions of Muslims
for Islam sadly has been forced into stagnation with confusion, denial,
hypocrisy and betrayal.
65 years on our judicial system is still
Anglo-Saxon penal code, policing system is also the same which has
miserably failed to provide justice and maintain law & order in the
country. The economic system is utterly fraudulent, corrupt and
oppressive capitalism which is based on interest/usury. The rulers are
cruel and corrupt who do not believe in the very purpose this country
was created for they are guardians of the status quo and don’t even fill
the Islamic criteria to be the candidates for positions which they are
holding. The constitution is full of contradictions on one side its says
no legislation can be made repugnant to Quran and Sunnah on the other
side gives immunity to (the corruption of) the President which is
against the Quran. Laws which were against Quran & Sunnah had not
only been presented, but also passed by the Parliament. At social level
our society is full of contradictions, media is misusing its freedom by
making mockery of Islam and even insulting Islam in one way or another,
it is spreading a wannabe attitude by promoting Western and Indian
culture, whereas the land of the pure was found to rid Muslims of
unIslamic customs and trends of Hindu culture. This betrayal with Allah
who blessed us with this beautiful and resourceful homeland and ignorant
denial of Islamic Purpose of Pakistan’s creation has ruined Pakistan a
lot in last 65 years.
In 1971, East Pakistan broke away as
Bangladesh on the basis of secular linguistic Bangali nationalism and
1/3 of the people in existing Pakistan want to leave the country because
of their plight. The country is rotten with corruption, lawlessness,
bad-governance, terrorism, energy crisis, Imperial slavery etc. Beside
other reasons the biggest reason for separation of East-Pakistan was
that the ideology on the basis of which east Bengal joined Pakistan was
negated. There was no common bond and affiliation apart from Islam
amongst the people of East and West Pakistan to keep them united as one
nation. Two different regions, different languages, different race,
different culture but one faith Islam which made them one nation in 1947
but Islam was practically subjugated into Mosques by the ruling elite
in West Pakistan, consequently now East Pakistan is Bangladesh, and in
existing Pakistan which is multi-lingual, multi-racial, there is no
common bond or affiliation to keep the people from Karachi to Khyber,
Quetta to Lahore united as one nation except La Ilaha Muhammad ar RasulAllah,
but ethnic, provincial, linguistic divide is prevalent in Pakistani
Politics and there are some separatist movements led by secular
nationalists getting stronger in Baluchistan based on secular
nationalism.
What was the purpose of partition if
Pakistan was planned to be a secular state, when there are more Muslims
living in India than Pakistan, they pray, fast and go for Hajj every
year on special flights. The secularists say ‘‘economic rights of
Muslims were the reason Pakistan was created for it was not made to be a
Islamic State”. Before coming up with this lie to associate their
fraudulent and corrupt ideology with Pakistan’s creation they forget
that we had left half of the Muslims in India, and they knew there so
called economic rights will not be protected but still they supported
and even voted for creation of Pakistan and those who left everything in
India were quite well-off but they migrated to Pakistan knowing the
fact that they might be killed on the way. They sacrificed everything
for nothing else but Islam.
If we are to save Pakistan we have to come back to the purpose of its
creation wholeheartedly and build Pakistan accordingly. It is not just a
national obligation but an Islamic obligation to follow Allah’s Deen
which we claim to believe in otherwise the future would be even worse
than the present in every sense.