Re: Fairwell MMA, we knew thee well, and now your history!
Politics of Fazlur Rahman
THIS is apropos of Dr Khurrum Shaukat Yusafzai’s letter, ‘Politics of Fazlur Rahman’ (Dec 10). We may have a memory shorter than the proverbial one. History, however, does not forgive, nor can it be obliterated by time or by those who shove highly sensitive issues under the carpet.
Every surviving person who was involved in the Pakistan movement during the 1940s feels with pain that our history is repeating itself in a form that will be devastating for coming generations. Those who never accepted it are now out to destroy it with vengeance. It is a grave matter of now-or-never, if our so-called senior citizens did not come out of their self-imposed isolation and put their shoulders to the wheel, at least for the sake of their own progeny. Do we not remember that:
a. The struggle for independence was aimed at the survival of Mussalman and not of Islam, which does not need a land with borders to exist. If the movement was in the name of Islam, as is being given out now by the mullahs, they would not have opposed it en bloc.
b. The ‘deeni’ ulema dubbed Pakistan as ‘Kafiristan’ and named the Quaid-i-Azam a ‘kafir’, which they still do.
c. The reverend Mufti Mehmood, father of Maulana Fazlur Rahman, while sitting in the chair of the chief minister of the NWFP and enjoying all the perks and privileges bestowed upon him by Pakistan, is on record to have declared: “Thank God, we did not participate in the ‘gunah’ of establishing Pakistan”(can be confirmed from archives of newspaper of the time he was chief minister).
d. Not a single maulana or ‘deeni alim-turned-politician’ has during the last 60 years ever visited, nor will any visit, the Mazar of the Founder of this country, even as a visitor if not to pay homage or offer Fateha. Being the nazim of Karachi, Nematullah Khan had no option but to accompany the governor there only once.
e. The only option left to protect this besieged country from falling into the ditch of theocracy is to administer the oath of every elected office to the new incumbent, viz, MPA, MNA, senator and nazim at the Mazar of the person who enabled him to reach that office, or else watch your children being eventually engulfed by the dark waves of gloom and ignorance.
DR M. S. JAFFERY
Karachi