We should wait now !
(Syed Musarrat Ali, Karachi)
I was created to first
understand myself and then the other creatures coming across in my life. But it
was not possible without the “Help and Guidance” of the Creator. To imply “Help
and Guidance” the creator utilized so many of his creations within the universe
which is being explored since the day one. As described in almost all the
manuals of “Help and Guidance” the main tool to exercise his by-laws was
fortunately the same “Creature” i.e. “The Human Being” despite unlimited
“Angels” and “Jinnat” etc. Mind it these were not ordinary tools like me rather
were very special, hence called as “Messengers” who were fully equipped with
“Help and Guidance Manuals”.
The broad concept and the basic features of all these Manuals were to improvise
the mental architecture of this specie of creatures (social animal) so that he
behaves like “Human” with others i.e. all creatures of the whole universe.
Every creation is mortal, hence after discontinuation of “Messengers” the above
stated “Help and Guidance Manuals” were manipulated by Scholars to project their
individual philosophies and individual thoughts which is the main cause of chaos
on this planet “Earth”.
Now the result of this chaos due to confusion in the mental architecture of
Human is that Creator’s Best Creature “Human” is not behaving humanly.
Prior to entering into debate of manipulations of scholars to project their
personal philosophies and individual thoughts, there is another very basic
issue, which is the language, used by the above mentioned scholars. Believe me
and I am sure most of the readers will agree with me that whichever book picked
up is written using the most difficult vocabulary just to prove that the writer
is highly capable, hence the reader must reach that level of literacy first and
then touch that book, may it be in any language. Not only this but now in
electronic media whenever there is a debate or lecture of scholars even they try
to use the most complicated vocabulary to prove the superiority of each other
without taking care of the essence of the message regarding the issue. And again
it may be in any language.
So the real problem of a serious and sincerely curious reader or the viewer
becomes the knowledge of that language first which creates irritation and the
real interest is lost gradually.
My basic problem is that “Direct Translation” of Holy Quran is done according to
the thoughts, capabilities or
perception of an individual scholar. Let us be very specific. I will begin from
the direct translation of Holy Quran. It is true that most of the scholars has
translated each Arabic word in a similar Urdu / English word but fortunately or
unfortunately I have noticed the meaning of a word totally differ from each
other which not only changes the whole concept of philosophy of Islam and this I
am talking about “Direct Translation”, so what to talk about further explanation
i.e. Tashreeh, Hashias or Tafseer?
Example: Arabic word “Nafs” Reference: Chap.2 Surah.2 Verse.54. This word has
been translated as “Person” by most of the scholars where as some has translated
as “Inner Self”. I am not mentioning honorable names of the scholars purposely
reason being that I am a very little common person as far as knowledge is
concerned.
Now the confusion is obvious because when Allah says in above verse that kill
the persons means to kill physically, whereas to kill the Inner Self means
correction of wrong doing. May I stress on the point that this is about direct
translation and when details of this word is seen, it is clearly written that
seventy thousand persons were killed for the wrong doing of worshipping the
Yellow Calf in the era of Moses. The followers did this wrong doing when Moses
went to talk to Allah at Koh-e-Toor (Name of a hill) and stayed there for forty
days. The followers of Moses called Jews and the condition was applicable for
the correction of wrong doing called “Forgiveness”.
I think we “The Muslims” are doing the equivalent wrong doings since long and
are happy that we will not be dealt similarly because we are followers of
Mohammad (SAW). This is only an excuse to prove ourselves superior to Jews by
creating discrimination in application of Allah’s rule.
I am not going far back in the history but very confidently start since
1947.Though I was born the same year but the history told to me right from the
horse’s mouth does not synchronize with the written text books’ history. Let us
not go into debate of difference of opinion because it is on both categories. We
must see according to by-in-large formula. Let us begin with a sequence as
follows:-
Whatever I am going to say now is my conviction and everyone has the right to
give his opinion but off course I cannot force others to agree with me that is
why at the age of about 20 in early 60s, when I started to express myself among
my colleagues, they used to become very angry and some of them wanted to beat
me. The point was that very few (10 to12) Muslim families of the sub-continent
wanted to have a separate land to flourish their business as they were not
capable of competing Tata and Birla like giants. The Hindus wanted that whatever
loss and damage to the wealth of subcontinent is done by East India Company
should be stopped now; they should go back but the business relations should be
maintained for future prosperity of India. On the other hand Muslim business
tycoons approximately eight at that time exploited the so called Muslims by
giving them a slogan “Pakistan ka mutlub kia Lailahaillallah” and that was the
turning point. Countries have broken apart; countries have joined hands to live
as on state but no country has come into existence on the basis of religion as
the religion does not require any boundary.
The above mentioned slogan ignited a fire which not only killed millions of
humans but lifetime hatred took place. Selfishness of Muslim business community
at that time even agreed the division of Bengal, Punjab and Kashmir. I cannot
understand that such a wise and great person like Mohammad Ali Jinah could
accept a country with two legs apart thousands of miles i.e. West & East
Pakistan and a serious cancer near the neck i.e. Kashmir “Shah rug”. The great
poet Allama Mohammad Iqbal always said “The whole world is ours, not only China,
Arab or India. But the backing of Muslim Businessmen was the Muslim Politicians
who are lying with ordinary people till today as Muslims Politics means to make
a fool of anyone and they are not honest even to the country they live in.
There was another group of people called Scholars of Islam. These scholars have
totally different views of Quran and Sunnah as I mentioned right in the
beginning that translation of certain Arabic words is totally different from
each other. These groups existed even before the partition of sub-continent but
they used to unite at on ideology whenever there was a conflict with
non-Muslims. Black sheep amongst these groups were multiplying day by day by
getting different types of rewards from rulers of that era and now these groups
are countless in Pakistan. They misguided honest and true leaders like Mohammad
Ali Jinah and have brought this nation at a point of shamefulness throughout the
globe.
Anyway after taking the separate land those 10-12 business families grew up to
22 families when General Ayub Khan took over to rectify all the snags created by
these Businessmen and Islamic Scholars. Later on due to multiple reasons these
corrupt elements grew like mushroom and were in hundreds at the time of General
Zia’s Marshal Law. He followed the footsteps of his predecessor but with a
tighter control of so called Islam. Corrupt and dishonest Government cannot run
without the coordination of corrupt Economists and Self made and Dishonest
Exploiters of Islam. The result is that now at present we have whole country
under total control of these corrupt and dishonest elements which are obviously
in Majority and which is the beauty of Democracy because the same elements are
in opposition as well.
Now let us come back to the initial point that whether we deserve the same
punishment as was given to followers of Moses or U.S Aircraft career anchored in
Arabian Sea can serve the purpose of Noah’s boat in this flood which is the
history’s worst flood. I don’t think so as neither there is any person like Noah
nor any group like followers of Noah. Some people say that this is a time for
our test “Yeh Imtehan Ka Waqt Hay”, some say it is a warning from God, some say
this is the time for pray of forgiveness “Astaghfar” and some say these are the
signs of Dooms Day “Qiamat”.
I do not agree with any of the above and fully convinced that we have been given
warnings since 1948 till today but we were proud and only proud to be follower
“Ummati” of Mohammad (SAW) without following his orders practically rather
cheating and cheating and cheating only. So the time has come for punishment and
this time punishment will be as a whole like Qaum-e-Aad and Qaum-e-Samood and
not like Bani Israel.
Well, this is my viewpoint, you may differ and if you cannot tolerate the
reality in my perspective, you can kill me; you may go to Heaven and I
---------------------------? Or we may see each other in ------------!