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I have particular respect for Dr. Israar as he is the least hypocrite amongst the religious scholars.
But really what you have been posting and what Dr. Israar preaches is totally different to your idea of sharia. For example Dr. Israar is totally against religious freedom and advocates death for apostasy. While you are far too liberal to endorse his views. Dr. Israar wants death penaly for Qadiyanis to be implemented in Pakistan, while I don’t think you are such a radical that you would like to kill all the Qadiyanis.
Again your reasoning is nothing but a circular reasoning. Now you want to have a ministry of religious affairs over looking the people’s collective wisdom. Please inform us who is going to choose the all powerful Minister of relgious affairs.
The reality is that every other muslim who has ideas other mine is a kafir. This is general mindset in the uslim world.
I told you in the beginning that your idea of democratic sharia has no example in the history and must be invented. Infact you have also shunned some of the ideas from quranic sharia which you don’t like. For example you are against jazya tax although it is prescribed by Quran. I think you will not reintroduce slavery in your democratic sharia inspite of quran endorsing clearly the captives of war being enslaved and instructing people to treat them justly.
I am a student and do not claim to know everything. Neither I am so fixed in my mentality that I am unwilling to change specially like some extra so called relgious people. I know we are trying to suggest a system for our country where we presume that even non-muslim Pakistanis are patriotic and are not against Islam and people’s right to practice Islam. This is the basic difference between us and early islamic society of Holy Prophet PBUH, therefore those laws were time specific and do not apply to our society.
Read your last sectence again. It is the best sentence I have read from your posting so far. I don’t think that Allah has given us this job that we should impose his religion on others in the name of sharia. I don’t think Allah wants his religion to be hijacked by anyone for political gains or to come in power.
Fasting, praying etc. are means of self cleansing, and more and more people will clean their souls, the better society we will be able to achieve. We can not slap our own personal virtue/piousness on people in the name of sharia.