Re: Secular?
You’re right, his grandson did convert back to Parsi. And sources do say that he gave up alcohol near the end of his life but the fact is Jinnah was never that conservative. I never said he wasn’t a Muslim, just that he wasn’t very conservative. And the fact that he was secular, in my mind, is reason to believe that he would have wanted Pakistan to be secular and the creation of Pakistan wasn’t religious but political.
And again, I think Pakistan should be secular because I can’t think of any countries ruled by Islamic law which are successful. Saudi Arabia can only be called “successful” in the sense that they got lucky that they’re sitting on so much oil.
Islam as a political guide is outdated. It was written for a time in which someone who was not of your tribe or country was your enemy. Muslims and Christians hated each other. Countries were regularly ravaged and destroyed. This is not the world today. While countries do take advantage of each other, outright atrocities do not occur. As such, much of the political aspect of the Quran is outdated. Therefore, Pakistan should look to logic and reason in its politics, and Islam for its cultural identity.
I mean even before Islam and Christianity, the Romans built one of the most impressive Empires ever and their principles of law and politics set the foundation of Western law, simply because the Dukes who followed in the Middle Ages strived to be like the Romans they had heard about: Augustus, Caeser etc. So a successful constitution and law system can be built without any religious involvement. That’s my point.