Islamisation: cure of all evils

Complete Islamisation of Pakistan has been the genuine and long-standing demand of the overwhelming majority of Pakistanis. Not only that, it is also the appropriate answer to the lurking fears of Talibanisation, growing rapidly with every passing day, as a natural response to the suppression of this public demand at the state level.

This demand surfaced as soon as the inception of the country, since the driving force behind the Pakistan movement was the need for a separate country for Muslims where they could protect and practice their Islamic ideology. Consequently, the mounting public pressure led the Constituent Assembly to pass the Objectives Resolution, making a sacred covenant with the people of Pakistan that Quran and Sunnah will be the guiding principles of the constitution, legislation and policy-making of this land of the pure.

The British-trained establishment, including; the civil and military bureaucracy, were, however, averse to the idea of Islamisation and wanted to faithfully preserve the British system and the Anglo-Saxon system of government, besides the laws formulated by the colonial masters for subjects. Those people considered themselves the legitimate successors of the British colonial rulers and aspired to step into their masters’ shoes to enjoy the same powers and privileges exclusively reserved for the privileged class of British officers colonising the sub continent for over 200 years.

The ensuing tug-of-war between the small minority of feudals and capitalists led by the colonial bureaucracy trying to replace colonists, and the vast majority of people yearning to materialise the dream of Pakistan into reality, led the country towards the state of affairs it is presently beset with. This confrontation has not only caused serious damages to the country, including the progressive erosion of nationhood, decline in unity, solidarity and integrity among the federating units and putting the country on the verge of collapse, but has also led to its dismemberment. For the common people the independence of Pakistan from the British colonists was nothing but mere change of masters. The former British rulers were at least answerable to their British government and Parliament but their legacy of the local masters considered themselves as the ultimate authority and literally behaved like they were answerable to none but themselves.

The Pakistan movement leaders like Quaid-e-Azam and Liaquat Ali Khan were soon replaced by civil and military bureaucrats like Ghulam Mohammad, Gen Iskandar Mirza, Chaudhry Mohammad Ali and Gen Ayub Khan. In their quest for absolute power, these people destroyed democratic institutions and undermined the ideology of Pakistan for the sake of promoting the British culture, values and the English language.

The irrational resistance to the genuine public demand for Islamisation emanates from the imperialistic mentality adopted by our ruling elite. It stems from the mentality that drove the medieval master-slave struggle, and exposes the ruling classes state of mind.

The elite and intellectuals in the Roman Empire believed that the slaves and inferior class of people had neither the need to think about their welfare, nor the right to form any association or assembly to deliberate upon their problems and their solutions. It was the right of Romans to think and decide about the welfare of the slaves. The same ideology was adopted by the European colonists who declared that it was the right of the white masters to decide about the affairs of the coloured subjects. The basic idea behind that view was that the coloured races were of inferior capabilities and was incapable of running their own affairs and solving their problems. The Aryan Hindus were of the same belief that the upper-caste people had the authority to take care of the political, religious and economic issues of the whole society, while the lower castes, having lesser capabilities, were there to serve the higher-caste masters.

In the modern times, the much talked about theory of Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington, professes the same ideology that the Western Civilisation is the superior ideology which has proved its supremacy and it was time other civilisations should be defeated and obliterated. The same belief was inculcated to the US authorities by former US president Richard Nixon in his book, Seize the Moment, that after the fall of Soviet Union it was the golden opportunity for the USA to impose itself all over the world as the sole superpower.

The New World Order doctrine of Bush Senior had the same ideology that no power centre opposed to the USA should be allowed to grow, and this new world order should be imposed on the whole world with the help of European nations, Israel and India, in order to protect and promote the US interests and civilisation. The crux of the Fukuyama’s doctrine of End of History was that the Western civilisation has completely dominated the whole world, and its impossible that any other ideology could now evolve against it. The Western democracy has brought the humanity to the end point of its socio-cultural evolution.

The entire debate that Islam should not be the system of governance in the country was the thinking paradigm of those who are mental slaves to the western culture and averse to the Islamic ideology. This is an undeniable fact that Muslims from the length and breadth of the subcontinent strove for the creation of Pakistan and rendered matchless sacrifices in human history. The proponents of the baseless argument that not Islam but economic reasons were the basis of the Pakistan movement have no answer as to why the Muslims of UP, CP, Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, etc., endeavoured for Pakistan despite knowing that their areas would not be part of Pakistan. Evidently, they were striving for the realisation of the dream of a separate homeland for Muslims to enable them practice Islam freely under the system governed by Quran and Sunnah.

Unfortunately, the state of Pakistan created after a historic struggle of Muslims was taken over by the agents of British colonists quite early. They kept weaving a web of conspiracies to consolidate their grip over the country and with the passage of time their clutches became so strong that now even the talk of Pakistan’s Islamic ideology hurt their ears.

Pakistan is not just any state based on geographical entities. It is the embodiment of a definite Ideology and religion. As the Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, put it: Pakistan came into being the very day the first Muslim set foot on the subcontinent. Pakistan is a result of the Two-nation Theory that clearly spells that the life of Muslims is governed by the Islamic system based on Quran and Sunnah. Until we harmonise our lives, economy, society, Constitution and legal system with Islam, our society will continue to suffer from internal strife and friction.

Those who believe that Pakistan can be secularised by separating the Islamic system from its state are suffering from a serious fallacy. What they conveniently ignore in their bias against Islamic codes is that Islamisation of the country is not just the demand of what they call some extremists but is the strong desire of an overwhelming majority of the people, millions of whom are ready to sacrifice their lives to achieve this objective, like those who laid down their lives in the Pakistan Movement.

Though this majority is under the strong shackles of a tiny minority of western-slaves, the dawn of an Islamic revolution is round the corner. This is the era of a global Muslim renaissance as slavery’s shackles are breaking and the enemies of Islam are on the retreat after the huge fortresses of their military and economic might are coming down under the pure resistance and sacrifices of the believers.

Regarding the argument that promoting Islam would enrage Washington and the west, we would become isolated, and be dubbed as fundamentalists, etc., it must be kept in mind that alienating Islam will negate out existence and disintegrate the country. Islam is the basis of Pakistan, since it was created for Islam and not on the basis of some homeland.