Monday, December 29, 2014

Fight against Extremism & Terrorism: Who Will Break the Mindset???





Fight against Extremism & Terrorism
Who Will Break the Mindset???

Military Operations and hangings alone cannot be helpful if we will not hit the Mindset. In a book of Islamiat in class 8 (published by Government in 2014) there is lesson about " Amar Bilmarauf wa nahi ul Munkar" but the author did not link it with Constitution of Pakistan. Due to this absence a child or teacher can think that he/she is custodian of religion and it is his duty to impose laws of the religion by himself/herself. Either one read Urdu/English textbooks or Islamiat, Pak Studies (social studies) or Ethics textbooks (recently introduced under 2009 education policy for Non Muslims) this absence is everywhere. In the absence of citizenship rights and over emphasis on religion our textbooks publish since 1969 fail to promote Pakistani nationalism. The crux of the matter is mixing of Muslim brotherhood (Ummat) with modern concept of nationalism (Quoom). In his famous letter of rebuttal to Hussein Ahmad Madni of jamiat Ulma Hind Allama Iqbal clearly differentiated the concepts of Ummat and Quoom yet our policy makers of 1950s failed to comprehended it. There is not any suggestion to reject the concept of Ummat at all but in a Nation State our emphasis on constitution and citizenship should not be compromise at all. When Pakistan came into being in 1947 we had 22% non Muslims (Majority were Hindus living in East Pakistan) and after Dhaka Fall the percentage had reduced accordingly. Now a day’s percentage is in between 4 to 8 percent. Just imagine if it is considered 5% even then in a country of 200 million, the Non-Muslim Pakistani population is more than 10 million people. Majority of them are poor and they cannot afford elite schools for sure. So what the lesson Pakistani State is giving to 10 million Non Muslims Pakistanis? What Muslim children will learn? The mindset we have created since 1969 is against Pakistani nationalism itself. If FATA and PATA are save heaven for this mindset then our public and private schools are nurseries of this mindset. It is time to think about it. 

 The article is Published in Weekly Humshehri Magazine at the eve of 2014 with the hope that in 2015 we will have better understanding. Our parliament is moving forward and all institutions are with it which is rare in the history of Pakistan. 
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2014 میں چھپی اسلامیات کے مضمون کی 8 ویں جماعت کی نصابی کتاب میں نوجوانوں کو آج کل سرکاری سطح پر ہم ایک سبق پڑھا رہے ہیں کہ جس کا عنوان ہے ’’اَمربالمعروف ونہی والمنکر‘‘۔ اس کی تشریح کرتے ہوئے سبق میں لکھا ہے ’’امر کے لفظی معنی ہیں کسی کام کے کرنے کا حکم دینا اور ’نہی‘ کے معنی ہیں کسی بات سے روکنا۔‘‘ اس سبق میں کسی ایک جگہ بھی یہ نہیں لکھا کہ اس مدنی آیت مبارکہ کا تعلق ریاست اور آئین و قانون سے ہے۔ اپنے مولانا عبید اللہ سندھی نے اس بارے تفصیل سے لکھا ہے کہ اس حکم کا تعلق ریاست و حکومت سے ہے۔ اگر کوئی گروہ یا فرد ازخود لوگوں کو برائیوں سے روکنے اور نیک کام کرنے کا حکم دینے پر کمر بستہ ہوگا تو پھر اس کا وہی نتیجہ نکلے گا جس کا آج ہمیں سامنا ہے۔ آج امربالمعروف کا اختیار پارلیمان، آئین اور عدلیہ کے ذمہ ہے اور یہی بات نہ صرف علامہ اقبال نے اپنے خطبہ میں کہی تھی بلکہ قراردار مقاصد میں بھی یہی بات لکھی ہوئی ہے۔ تاہم جب ہم 8ویں کے طالبعلم کو وضاحت سے یہ بات نہیں بتائیں گے تو پھر طالبان سے گلہ کیوں؟ - 

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