Re: Radicalization of education in Pakistan
If through religious zeal people lose the forest for the trees, then their basic understanding of Islam is not there …
Muslims are indeed supposed to avoid extremes … However there are some extremes that are not only compatible but are edging towards perfection …
For example, it is extreme to walk on the right or the left … We are supposed to take the middle path … This does not mean that praying an average of 3 prayers per day is the middle between 5 prayers and 1 prayer per day … Neither does it mean that we should put something of lower priority above the higher priority …
The extreme we need to have … Is to understand that to pray extra prayers all the time is wrong and to not pray at all is wrong, but to seek prayer and to be adherent to 5 times is a type ‘extreme’ … It is a struggle to fine tune our ability to remain on the middle path … That is what we need to aim for.
This is happens with many things in life … If we choose to focus on society and economy we need a balance that encourages us to force ourselves to exceed in being nice … Being patient - you see if one becomes extremely patient then that is not an extreme … It is a method of being moderate towards others …
So I believe there is a forest being missed by the ultra zealous as well as moderates …
All things are not necessarily great in moderation …