Modern Pakistan should better be called a relic of
the past and a country of the dark ages which is desperately awaiting the
arrival of a Voltaire, a Lenin, a Mao, a Khumeini or the rebirth of the
Quaid-e-Azam to put an end to feudalism the mother of all social, economic,
political and human ills, including corruption. What actually is being awaited
is the renaissance of true system of Islamic faith. Our religious leadership is
hardly qualified to bring about the desired change, for two reasons. One: Pakistan
is their step son. Majority of them opposed its emergence during the Pakistan
Movement. They are now putting up with it unwillingly. Two: Even if they were
patriotic Pakistanis they would not be able to contribute to the revival of
Islam in the country. They lack the required leadership qualities. Each one of
them is a devotee of some kind of a self- styled Islam. They themselves are not
a united force. How can they unite the Ummah. Their knowledge of the Holy Quran
is superficial. How can they enlighten the common mans mind in favour of an
Islamic State when they themselves are ignorant of its parameters. They all
know what is un-Islamic. None of them really knows what is Islamic. Not a
single religious party has so far defined the concept of an Islamic system fit
for Pakistan. None has declared a road map to reach the destination. They are
simply not capable of doing that.
The kind of Islam that our religious leaders preach
has led to sectarianism and fundamentalism. They produce bigoted sons of Islam
who unleash untold atrocities on the humanity in the name of Jihad. They commit
suicidal attacks and kill themselves and fellow Muslims in the name of Islam.
They preach unity and practice sectarianism. They send out frantic calls for Jihad and promote terrorism. They
practice religious feudalism and as such have become devoted friends of
country’s feudal lords. When they declare that there is no limit on the
ownership of wealth and property, they in fact invoke Islam to support
feudalism.
The man of destiny may be with or without a beard
but he shall certainly be the kind of a leader whose voice will be heard and
respected even in the farthest corners of the entire country His concept of the
Islamic state will fire the imagination of the common man that will set in
motion a powerful movement to carve out a democratic order as per God’s
commandments. The clergy will oppose him tooth and nail as a matter of their
tradition and also to save their respective strongholds which are source of
their influence and that of bread and butter. 13ut the\ will soon disappear
like straws in the wind along with the patronage of their feudal lords. The
clerics will certainly protest against his population control policy. It will,
of course, not be based upon Chinese model. Islamic way of life has its own
naturally inbuilt methods of population control. Two children per family will
be permitted to keep the brother-sister and allied relationships intact. One
child per family will create problems for Chinese society, eventually which
they will have to revise.