IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
[Shamim A Siddiqi,
The inevitable in
However, the most “glaring and
splendid outcome” of the melodrama played at Islamabad during the last one
month since October elections is the emergence of MMA as the most “victorious”
group in her “abortive” attempts to form the government with PML-Q. In this
“effort” it has exposed the hidden game of the so-called “King’s Party”, the
PPP and others that were playing dirty games of politics with MMA. The MMA has
rightly resolved to sit in opposition for which it was destined right from the
very outset. It has a big agenda to perform for the next five years. Had it
joined the power, it could not do the job of awakening the people of the land
to stand solidly for the Islamic revolution for which
Mohtram
Qazi Hussain Ahmad Sahib, Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and
the leader of opposition, in his last Friday’s sermon at Mansoorah,
Lahore, has lamented that had the people of the province of Punjab supported us
[MMA], Islamic revolution would have taken place in Pakistan. But why the
people of
Allah (SWT) by denying their
access to the “chair” of power has pinpointed the way for them to go in the
field, meet the masses, educate them day and night and aspire
them to live like “conscious Muslims and Muslimah”.
It would then pave the way for the Islamic Parties to oust the predominant
influence of Zamindars, Jagirdars
and Vederas from the political firmament of
1. At any cost, the Islamic parties must maintain the integrity and cohesiveness of MMA as a real working group both inside the Parliament and outside. They must be ever conscious not to play their differences in Fiqh, approaches and Maslak. The anti-Islam forces will try to find hole in their ranks and files by poking their nose through these differences. MMA must remain extremely vigilant in maintaining its unity and integrity that has brought them to success in elections.
2. Besides working vigorously in Punjab and
3. While close to power bases and holding a respectable representation in the Parliament of Pakistan, they must use this opportunity to spell out to the secularist and liberal forces of the country and abroad in Europe and America that Islam is not what they have construed willfully and wrongfully but it is the savior of mankind and stands only for justice and peace. It would be in a position to open dialogues with different institutions, governmental and non-governmental agencies, public forums and important individuals around the world. For this momentous task, it has to build different teams of efficient Da’ees in important languages of the world to roam about with emulating character and effective Dawah literature in their hands. This is a gigantic task to create the requisite good will for Islam and get the tension and the mountains of doubts and misgivings against Islam and Islamic state reduced or removed to the maximum possible extent. In the present context of the world, it would go a long way in preparing the world to think Islam as an alternate way of life.
4. Simultaneously,
the leadership of MMA should and must undertake to visit different Muslim
countries, develop personal contact with the Muslim leadership, both in power
and public and convince them to organize their respective masses on the lines
they will organize the Muslims of Pakistan. The urge for Islamic system must
now be echoed from every land and region to make it a reality and a force that
must be accepted by all our adversaries. The contemporary Muslim regimes that
are behaving like stumbling blocks against the emergence of Islam as a
political entity in their respective lands are to be exhorted and convinced to
change their attitude about Islamic system or the masses will force them to go
out. This is a very delicate task and the learned scholars and Ulama of Pakistan will have to undertake it with extreme
care, caution and brotherhood feelings for each other. A united approach and
struggle for the Islamic system of life is the need of the time. Alone
5. Together with fighting along the aforesaid
lines, it is equally important that the leadership of MMA must try to build at
least one ideal Muslim community somewhere in Pakistan to serve as model for
the non-Muslims world to visit and see by their naked eyes the blessings of
Allah’s Deen in practice in this modern world.
Islamic society does not exist anywhere. Some model communities must be built
in
6. Equally it is important that the Islamic
leadership should work hard in developing the Fiqh
for the current millennium.
7. This is not a wishful thinking. If MMA and
its leadership, especially that of the Jamaat-e-Islami,
is desirous to make Islam dominant in body politic of the country, it has to
work hard on these lines to make Islam as the need and urgency of the Muslim Ummah and that of the world at large. It needs a lot of resources
and that is to be procured by our Ulama by pooling
the Zakah and Sadaqah Funds
of the Muslim Ummah from
None can do this gigantic task except
our learned Ulama and Islamic scholars. The
leadership that constitutes MMA is ideally suitable to undertake this task as
its primary objective. It appears to be its destiny and that is why Allah (SWT)
has managed it to sit in the opposition, cooperate with the government for good
[Ta’wanu Alal-Bir] and
oppose where it is committing sin and injustices [wala
Ta’wanu Alal isme wal udwan]
and pilot the affairs of the Ummah in a very
enlightened and sophisticated manner with wisdom and Hikmah. Islamic parties of
Shamim A Siddiqi
November 25, 2002