Salaam.
Actually, Jinnah was as good a Muslim as the best amongst them, and created Pakistan for Islam, *via *Islam, and to implement Islam. Read his correspondence with Iqbal. Read his statements. Read his un-biased biography. Read about his actions, that reveal his character. He fought the case of a Muslim who killed a Hindu who was Blaspheming the Prophet, and buried him with his own hands saying “This son of a carpenter has surpassed me in his deeds”. And people say he was secular?!? I know its hard for you to digest living in the midst of day-in day-out propaganda to turn Pakistan into Attaturk’s model of a secular state, but theres only so much of history that you can twist.
Jinnah gave his LIFE, for the sake of this country, can we PLEASE at least respect his memory THIS much to NOT slander his vision?
Seriously, I have no problem with secularism as a system, but what really sucks is people trying to attribute it to a Great man and father of this nation…who was NOT SECULAR! Its like attributing Chuck Norris quotes to Gandhi!!
About Islam - Its really annoying to have people say time and again how diverse and sectarian it is. Please try to educate yourself more about the fundamentals of this beautiful religion instead of relying on GEO/ARY/your local molvi for sensationalized information. The groups or divides are SO minimal, its not even worthy of discussing. Even the chasm between Shiite and Sunni schools of thought have about 96% similarities, and they are considered two most divergent viewpoints. The four basic schools of jurisprudence, Hanafi, Shafii, Hambali and Maliki are also 99% similar because they all follow the same SOURCE, the Qur’an and Sunnah.
There are insurgents, agents, destabilizing forces and in-fight instigators at play so we should not generalize about the differences among Muslims as something irreconcilable or the whole “mera Islam tumhara Islam” attitude. There is One God, One final Prophet, and One Book. If you follow that, your’e a Muslim, and the way you choose to pray or sleep or eat or whatever is insignificant to the grander scheme of things.
That being said, people do have problems of extremism in Pakistan because it is a state consisting of masses run more by emotions than intellect or reasoning. Religious politicians tune in to that and use it. This is not a flaw in the concept of an Islamic state or “True Islam”, but is exploitation by corrupt individuals.
The whole problem, possibly the GREATEST problem plaguing Pakistan, is illiteracy. Illiteracy of the secular about Islam, and of the Religious about all other knowledge. IF our education system was simply improved - no - COMPLETELY revised, we’d be at a state where this debate would be non-existent.
Sadly, and realistically, the minority of elite controlling everything DONT WANT educated masses, DONT WANT religious harmony, DONT WANT a solid legal and social system, and DONT WANT Islam as their beacon. Therefore till all the Zardaris Musharrafs Shareefs and Bhuttos are done with this country, please continue to quarrel.
