Re: girl reburied after extremists object
No human being – even though Allah may have given him a code of laws (Kitab) or the power to enforce (Hukmah) it or even Prophethood (Nubuwwah) – has the right to say to others: "You should obey me rather than Allah”. He should rather say: “Become people of your Lord because you keep reading and teaching His book” (3:79)
How does the Pakistani Mullah operate?
He asks a simple question from his flock. Would they prefer the Word of God and that of the Holy Prophet of Islam or would they rather have western educated men under a godless society to guide and shape their nation? This question is extremely difficult for a common Pakistani to tackle. Pakistani masses adore Islam. Pakistani politicians and the educated elites, however, despite knowing the truth of Mullah seem to be divided and indecisive. Some even exploits this situation by siding with the Mullah and patronizing him. The Pakistani Mullah, in the meanwhile, rules supreme.
He of course does not tell his congregation the whole truth. He does not tell them who would interpret the divine for them. If the authority for legislation lies with God, whom a Muslim cannot deny, then as a natural corollary, it would be none other than the Mullah himself who would define and interpret the divine law for them. He blurs, or purposely does not draw, the line between himself and scholars (Aalims) well versed in worldly and religious disciplines.
He does not tell them that such scholars will need to be guided by the essential basic rules requiring a scholar to have thorough knowledge of religious text as well as the prevailing conditions in the world and his community. He remains quiet on the fact that it is only through such twin knowledge that a scholar can apply Islamic jurisprudence and principles to meet people's needs.
He of course does not tell them that, unlike him, the theologians or the learned scholars who would engage in this exercise must be intellectually gifted and unremittingly consistent so as to arrive at a healthy symmetry between the basic principles of Islamic jurisprudence and the realistic conditions in our modern-day world.
He also does not tell them that both the Quran and the Prophet (PBUH) ordered Muslims to seek all forms of knowledge. He does not inform them that due to his closing the door on interpreting the Quran in the light of modern events and sciences, Muslims have stood still while their cohabitants of planet earth have even escaped gravity and launched deep into the universe in their quest for knowledge.
He promotes the style of the Prophet (PBUH) by supporting a beard, putting surma in his eyes, an Arabic scarf on his shoulders and tying his shalwar above his ankles yet does not inform his congregation of the other sterling qualities of the Prophet (PBUH). The Prophet (PBUH) was not just an old man leading prayers in the mosque. He established an empire by uniting the various warring tribes, sent emissaries to other empires, received dignitaries in his court, signed at least one historic treaty (Hudaibya, A.D. 630), led armies in the battlefields, experienced numerous victories and also a defeat (at Ohad, A.D. 624), was a devoted father and a husband. The momentum that he built eventually landed the Muslims in Spain in the west and India in the east.
The Mullah himself is mainly responsible for dividing the Muslims into Sunni, Shia, Ahle-Hadith, Ahle-Fiqah, Ahle-Quran, Hanfi, Shafi, Malki, Hanbli, Deobandi, Barailwi and propagating mindless hate between these sects. He, therefore, never tells his followers God’s injunctions on sectarianism where He says;
"As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou has no part in them in the least...." (6:159)
To keep his hold on his followers’ minds, he professes that the Quran is an extremely difficult piece of divine literature to understand and to interpret by ordinary Muslims. He knows that most Pakistanis do not know Arabic and even if they did their skill in the language is not enough to literally interpret the language of Quran. He also knows fully well that most Pakistanis do not have the patience, time or the resources for learning Arabic. He, therefore, insists so much on the mastery of the Arabic language and culture.
He takes advantage of people’s ignorance and pretends to be the sole agent of the Quran and its interpretations. He does not explain to these Pakistanis that the Quran was meant for every one. That they don’t require a Mullah or any one to intercede on their behalf. That Allah does not make his words so difficult that ordinary people have difficulty in understanding them. That they only have to make an effort and there are numerous ways to seek the truth themselves. Regrettably, the majority of Pakistanis either cannot, or would not, seek these answers on their own
To his good luck, a faith system that is so deeply embedded into the minds of the believers is hard to wish away. Still harder is the task to disrupt the unholy alliance between hypocrite Pakistani elites and the Mullah. In his final throes, he too is putting up a brave fight. He continues to issue endless fatwas and thinks that the fear of death sentence and the declaration of jihad would silence the voices of reason, logic and progress. In his desperation he is counter-attacking with every possible means. His chief weapons remain an outright incitement of his followers to kill his opponents for divine rewards, promoting senseless hate, intimidating and declaring his opponents as apostates and blasphemers and twisting quotations from the Quran towards that end.
For common Pakistanis to join the universal quest for progress, efforts have to be made to seek the truth themselves rather than having to rely on the word of Mullah. They have to make a clean break from the past by disallowing and disowning the Mullah from being the de-facto leader of their communities.
**Fountainhead **
Truth exists, falsehood has to be invented.
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To me, true Islam represents the best of what mankind can hope to achieve. But no matter how beautiful and potent I may consider Islam to be, it remains a choice. A choice given by none other than God Himself. No one has the right to take this choice away from man, and impose their version of Islam on the rest of the population. To mix religion with politics by imposing ones religious ideology on the population is one of the biggest immoral acts.
The scene changes and I see a heavyset Maulvi with a big beard talking to a young boy.
“We are the people of Allah! We do not do propagate evil. We do not ask for anything. But our Madrassah cannot help you, unless you decide to be a soldier of Allah and give yourself entirely to our cause . For that you need a beard, a huge Kurta, a Shalwar, and a gun. Hold it, I forgot! Do you have some money? I have been in need of an AC since the last two days. The last one got bad and I had to throw it away. In our Madrassah, our well wishers pay the telephone and electricity bills, buy us cars and give us money. That is what you have to do to come in our good books. We cannot sacrifice our own comfort for others"
Pakistan! The land of the pure! The land that is only for the son of the soil! The land for Muslims now a graveyard for the living. No sense of education. I am a part of the land where the religious scholars have never done anything better than to misguide the ordinary people especially the youth and turn them into utter morons. Disgusting! I am one of the Pakistani people who disowned Dr. Adbul-Salam only because he was Qadiyani. The giant went in the Nobel Prize ceremony wearing a black sherwani, khusa, and a pagri. The national dress of Pakistan. Yet he was shunned and banished! He could not establish his center for physics in Pakistan and had to take it to Trieste, because the bearded bigots feared it. Scientific education would definitely undermine their absolutely fiendish power.