Silence of the Lambs
By Samad Khurram
Back in 2002, I was returning from Friday prayers when I saw an unusual gathering of singing and quasi-dancing Mullahs. Unusual because I had always assumed Mullahs to be against all types of Kuffar (Art). The amused crowd were listening to chants of “Taliban aa gayay, Taliban aa gayay”. I smirked. As if! Pakistan is a nuclear country with the seventh largest army. We’re safe.
The Mullahs’ songs have been answered – the Taliban indeed are coming. And with them the cowards are bringing a lifestyle that destroys everything Pakistan and Islam.
Oh no. Wait! This guy is on the paycheck of those who are trying to break Pakistan. Taliban are heroes, its America which is wrong. Yes, this is the typical self defense mechanism coming to full force. Having nothing to lose, and having been already declared a CIA agent earlier in life I suppose I’ll continue. Continuing with a genuine fear, that these words are falling on either deaf or hostile ears. Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Pakistan is over if all this chaos continues.
Jinnah’s Pakistan is a dream gone wrong. Perhaps if he knew that the dreamland for living in peace, harmony, religious tolerance and freedom was going to become arena for public flogging where laughs of sadist barbarians and the screams of minors will echo, he would not have decided on creating it. Had he known that there would be more suicide bombs in his country than any other place in the world, where fundos would go around the cities threatening women to become religious, where school children would have to undergo security protocols as if they were in a war zone, would he have even bothered to work for the green and white?
Still, Pakistan is not what we worry about. All our esteemed talk shows chatter on is whether there should be 17th Amendment or not and on the statements by America and India. Yes, American drones and Indian statements are a threat to our sovereignty. Yes, the balance of power is important. But even when the Taliban have killed more people than India, American Drones or our tyrant rulers, taken over more of our land and have made us feel more unsafe than anyone else in the past thirty years? What other definition of sovereignty is there than protection of lives and property of people, maintaining writ of the state across the territory and having people feel secured? Why can we have some programs discussing the atrocities of the Taliban, the acts of terror that they do and how they have destroyed Pakistan?
No, it’s the “Hindu Zionists” (notice the contradiction?) working on a CIA sponsored conspiracy to break Pakistan. There are the good Taliban who fought the Kuffar off and the real issue is the CIA. Arguably everyone has all the time in the world to devise every action we do, plan it to perfection and then make the evidence of their involvement disappear. Are we really that important for the rest of the world to worry about when they have their own countries and problems to tend to? Even if the Taliban are foreign funded should does that not mean we should double our efforts? Remember when India briefly occupied few territories near Lahore in 1965 how the whole country ran to defend it? My grandfather had stories of people going with sticks to support the army. I am afraid I will not have any such stories of patriotic resistance to tell anyone when another enemy has taken control of a fourth of NWFP and roughly one twentieth of Pakistan. Perhaps we should ban “Yeh watan tumhara hai, tum ho pasban is kay” for it seems no one really care about Pakistan, except the Zionist Hindus of course.
But no, remember the glorious days of the Caliphs? Remember the great Pakistani Fauj, who under the Ameer-ul-Momineen, Zia –ul – Haq, which crushed the Russians? This is only a plan to make America taste the same fate! Yes thank you Zaid Hamid. For a nation which already lives in denial, your conspiracy theories are all we need to turn us completely schizophrenic. Army is great and it will deal with any task assigned to it. More of the same comes from everyone turning patriotic everywhere. This automatic knee-jerk mechanism has seeped in our blood and shut off our brains.
For the love of God can anyone explain me why the great Army of Allah, whose laurels we sing from the day we are born, has still not been able to jam radio stations pouring terror in Swat? Have the core commanders not even tried asking the army engineers how radios work and how easy it is jam them without even having to be in the line of fire? Can they not even figure out if they only played “Who let the Dogs out” at the frequencies the Taliban use it would stop this vitriol? Why is it that these Taliban leaders can appear before journalists in broad daylight and roam freely without any trouble even when they claim responsibility of attacking Pakistanis across the country?
Perhaps the real question I should ask is why do I even care? When I took time off from Harvard to be part of the lawyers’ movement I had seen a ray of hope. There were concerned citizens and lawyers who stood for what was right no matter what the consequences. We fought for a principle and won with the hope that things will slowly improve. Today the very judges we had faith in released the cleric of Lal Mosque whose crimes everyone knows about. If the judiciary was going to release people whose crimes were recorded on TV perhaps it does explain why Taliban are spreading like an incurable cancer. Imagine who would be hanging in “khooni chowk” had Mullana Abdul Aziz kidnapped a few Taliban officials or fought against them and killed their men?
Yet when you think all’s over, somehow someone comes up. Someone whose name keeps your head from drowning. Perhaps this sick torture has to be long and painful where we chase mirages of oasis, never to really reach their. Perhaps for all the atrocities we have committed to our own people require us to be made an example of so no other nation follows our path. Why do ray of hopes like Afzal Khan, who has socked it up to Taliban and refused to be removed from Swat alive, appear every now and then? However he stands to die in the rain. Alone. Can anyone please name one Pakistani leader who has said the same? Forget that has anyone Pakistani leader said that he will go and get the Taliban to give up their arms? Will the real leader who can get rid of these monsters stand up? Imran Khan? Qazi? Nawaz Sharif? This silence is criminal!
What’s worse that these leaders of ours have unanimously approved a state within a state run, which is not accountable to anyone, absolves all crimes of the Taliban and gives a safe haven to those who are there to kill us? What sort of a Nizam-e-Nonsense is this when no one even tried to debate the issue properly and even consider for a second that giving blanket amnesty to the Taliban might not, even if it be infinitesimal, the right thing to do? No for the politicians this does not matter. All they are interesting in mudslinging at each other and more ministries. Our media and sheeple are busy devouring the latest gossip while Pakistan burns.
But unlike what people think it will not be because of Zardari’s corruption or Gilani’s incompetence or Salman Taseer’s whiskies. We have survived them in the past, and so we’ll do again. However any country that has fallen to the Taliban has never recovered. The Taliban are here to stay and unless we stand up against them in every possible way Pakistan will be lost – for good! It will be the silence of the lambs which destroys us. You will be responsible if Pakistan fails.
The writer is a student at Harvard University and turned down an award from the US ambassador as a mark of protest against killings of Pakistani soldiers by US drone attacks.
Shorter Version of this appeared in The News on Monday, April 20
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67 responses to “Silence of the Lambs”
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And furiously wrangle,
But paradise is no place
For this kind of jangle.
His task is to disunite
Dear Mr Samad,
That's what I was trying to tell you in so many words that keep JI and Imran Khan [Imbalanced and more imbalanced is Shireen M Mazari]/Ansar Abbasi away from Restore The Judicary Movement/Civil Society because they look civil but underneath they are Fascists, we know about MQM because they are open but the same couldn't be said about the group mentioned above. Latest example is of Ansar Abbasi who took shelter and cover under the protection of NGO Ladies during Restore The Judicary Movement and now he is openly attacking their faith and raising doubts over their Islam.
Wish you best of luck.
More than 3 million refugees entered in Pakistan in 1979, And on pro-rata basis their population also been doubled. So we can say its 6 million now, roughly abt the size of Lahore. And they are groomed to fight only isolated from rest of the world, so what you expect from them?
Its the combined greed of all the rulers including Generals since 1979 until today who brought up a cancer in Pakistan return for $$ & power.
So I jsust hope know that common sense of the rulers & Generals can only cure this.
No one from outside have any cure for this chronic disease, cure is within.
Yes indeed!
And after the recent "fatwa" of his highness janab Sufi Muhammad, which declares the judiciary of Pakistan haraam people who supported the so called "peace" deal will realize that under nizam e adal these extremists will find.a safe haven to popuralize and propagate their twisted and misinterpreted concepts of "shariah".
The divide between rich and poor was widening at a fast pace and now a divide on religious beliefs will widen with an unprecedented momentum.
I just hope people begin to open their eyes and do whatever in their capacities to counter this extremism, which is the gravest danger to the existence of Pakistan.
May lord show us light and give us the courage to unveil the true face of Islam to the world.
Why did you come up with lie?
Imran khan has many times said that he is ready to convince Taliban throw weapons but for that Govt must stop cooperating with USA.As the govt has never stopped cooperating,so that clearly prevented pakistan see peace.
Imran khan has many times said that he is ready to convince Taliban throw weapons [Tahir]
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Convince Taliban like this:
Do check 2002 National Newspapers for the dirty role played by Imran Khan in support of General Musharraf.
And Imran Khan and his party Tehreek-e-Insaf [Pakistan Justice Party]supported General Musharraf in his Illegal Referendum in 2002 [to become Illegal President of Pakistan]. It seems that Imran Khan and his party indirectly supported General Musharraf's Zioninst Friends back in 2002 [was Imran Khan sleeping or smoking a Joint] because in 2002 Imran Khan backed the referendum to decide the future of President Pervez Musharraf. After considerable dithering, Imran Khan declared that his party has decided to support Musharraf's referendum. In a statement issued from Karachi, Imran had said he has decided to support the referendum as he believed that Musharraf wanted "to make Pakistan a modern Islamic, welfare state".
Will the Real Imran Please Stand Up By Amir Zia
MONTHLY NEWSLINE PAKISTAN DECEMBER 2002
http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsDec2002/newsbeatde…
He should settle in Swat with family in the house of Sufi Muhammad to establish a modern Islamic, welfare state".
@Aamir Mughal, only wants his Khalifa's chellas
in power, who are nothing but CIA agents and
Indo/Israeli touts
Allah Iqbal, bashes "mullahs" in his famous " the mullah and the paradise "(translated by Naeem Siddiqui):
When in a vision I saw
A mullah ordered to paradise,
Unable to hold my tongue,I said something in this wise:
‘Pardon me, O Lord,
For these bold words of mine,
But he will not be pleased
With the houris and the wine.
He loves to dispute and fight"
The taliban are now having wet dreams of ruling Pakistan. May Allah keep us all safe from these bloody uncivilized self implied mullahs.
@Aamir Mughal, only wants his Khalifa’s chellas in power, who are nothing but CIA agents and Indo/Israeli touts [Reflection]
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Dear Sir,
You can check my blog as to what I have written on CIA, Zionists, Israel and last but the least Saudi Arabia as well.
i think no matter what we do, this country is going to go through a catastrophe – economically, politically, militarily etc. the big question is if we would be standing around to re-build from the ashes.
when the CJ was restored, some people felt that the worst was over. it has only begun. because with that issue resolved, finally we can wake up to this issue, which has been creeping for so long.
in the case of musharraf, there was enough dissent allowed for change to be possible. in this case, we would need to be much braver, much more resolute, because this time there is no dissent or opposition allowed.
Our dearest Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhury was once again ousted from his positon as Chief Justice of Pakistan after endorsement of nizam-e-adl and is now working as Chief Justice of Pakistan-minus-Swat. Where are the lawyers now? I am feeling pity for this man now.
@Aamir Mughal
Is Imran Khan so effective in Pakistan & Afghanistan as well?
That without being in power in Pakistan/Afghanistan even once hes the sole & major contributor for taliban to be in power in your opinion. You really have very indepth analysis & approach towards Pakistans foriegn policy & internal security.
@Aamir Mughal
"That’s what I was trying to tell you in so many words that keep……away from Restore The Judicary Movement/Civil Society …."
Its nice to know that you were steering the lawyers movement, media & people were of the view that Aitzaz, Munir Malik, Kurd, Hamid Khan & other lawyers were steering the movement.
@ KarachiKhatmal,
the solution is very simple, either we eliminate
all anti-Pakistan, and anti-Islam, secular or
marxist, all in one go, 20.000 to 40.000 judged and
hanging on the lamp poste, we should have done it
long long ago, the military dictators were all
" Ullu ke pathaay " to prevent people of treason
there is not other way !
@reflection: so you have a fetish for genocide too; quite a revealing insight into your thinking.
I am shocked to witness ur ignorance Sammad Khurram. Afzal LaLa has endorsed the deal with Taliban. Why should be Qazi , Imran and Mian Sb speaking against the imposition of Nizam-e-Adl? Why not Zardari's PPP and Asfand's ANP? And I'm sorry to say that you're lucky enough to be born in a rich family or le say you are lucky enough to be not born in Family. For us who belong to middle class, corruption is the great curse. Taliban cannot destroy me but the double job which i do for paying high utility bills, house rent, kids education and health problem is certainly deteriorating my health.
@talkhaba:
Taliban never discussed the issues you are saying; health, utility bills, education Kabul university was closed by Taliban during their reign. Read the history and current: Taliban's Islam just revolves around banning illegal S_e-x, beared, guns and tabooing women, other sects in islam or people of other race since Pashtoon is the only race that will be permitted to enter into jannat.
I wish I could send you back to the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan, do you wish to live there…..complaining of utility bills :S there would be no "utilities" when they will get reign…..man think with the brain not with the nut that sits in your skull!!!!
Is Imran Khan so effective in Pakistan & Afghanistan as well? [Muhammad Asif]
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Dear Asif Sahab,
Imran Khan would have been much better for Pakistan had he been not in Politics and would have doing his welfare work e.g. Shaukat Khanum Hospital [a great service to the mankind]. He should have waited and people would have made him the leader of Pakistan even without his permisssion. We lost a good man to the dirty machination of Jamat-e-Islami because JI used Imran Khan's popularity to serve JI's ulterior motive e.g. making him stand against MQM which JI couldn't do morally.
Its nice to know that you were steering the lawyers movement, media & people were of the view that Aitzaz, Munir Malik, Kurd, Hamid Khan & other lawyers were steering the movement.[Muhammad Asif]
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Dear Asif Sahab,
No Sir, for this credit goes to Mr Awab and Mr Samad Khurram. I was just a bystander.
@ Ali Abbas,
and what Allah SWT and Iqbal say about
20 millions of goolag victims killed by secular
Stalin Khalifah of Lenin and Karl Marx ??
have you forgotten already dear ?
and what about
Genocide of Afghanistan by communist and today by
Yankee Pigs their masters of Naeem Siddiqui
Moskovitsi !!
@ I think Lenin's peace prize be given to
Aamir Mughal and his courtiers.
@ Ali Abbas,
and what Allah SWT and Iqbal say about
20 millions of goolag victims killed by secular
Stalin Khalifah of Lenin and Karl Marx ??
have you forgotten already dear ?
and what about
Genocide of Afghanistan by communist and today by
Yankee Pigs their masters of Naeem Siddiqui
Moskovitsi !!
@ Lenin's peace prize be given to
Aamir Mughal and his birbals
@ I think Lenin’s peace prize be given to Aamir Mughal and his courtiers.[Reflection]
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Dear Sir,
Do read my blog on Hindu Fundamentalism and RSS.
@ Danial Burki,
your surprise is revealing your ignorance
of contemporary history, go back to school.
or change your khalifat !!!
the solution is very simple, either we eliminate all anti-Pakistan, and anti-Islam, secular or marxist, all in one go, 20.000 to 40.000 judged and hanging on the lamp poste, [Reflection]
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Please quote Quran and Hadith references for punishment by hanging and plaese quote as to where had this happened in Islam.
Aamir Mughal,
Sir, btw do have a blog on seculars/marxists , and
Takfir wal hijrah ? if you don't, could you right one !
who asked you about Hindu Fundamentalism and RSS ?
I have seen your blogs they are just boring to death
provided directly by State Deprtment USA, the only one
missing on your blog is Madelein Albright !! ha ha ha
you must be running a Sabbahi bloggistan !!
@ typo. could you write one,
I know your righteousness !Sir.
Dear Sir,
My replies are as under:
Aamir Mughal,
Reflection:Sir, btw do have a blog on seculars/marxists , and Takfir wal hijrah ? if you don’t, could you right one !
AM: Sir, check my posts on Takfiris [click the label]
Reflection:who asked you about Hindu Fundamentalism and RSS ?
AM:You have condemned me in one of your posts as Indian Agent, please check my posts on Gujarat Riots, About Poor Muslims in India, RSS, Hindutva, and Minorities Abuse in India.
Reflection: I have seen your blogs they are just boring to death provided directly by State Deprtment USA, the only one
missing on your blog is Madelein Albright !! ha ha ha
AM: Read my posts on Saddam Hussein and do read my post on Madelein Albright.
you must be running a Sabbahi bloggistan !!
AM: Do read my more than 40 posts on Khomeini
Dear Sir,
Condemning me is your basic right but do condemn me after reading on the subjects which you said I never touched.
@ Aamir Mughal,
well, according to Baithullah mehsoud, fazlullah,
sufi Mohammed, and & Co. beheading is permitted !
and is done by Takfir-wal Hijrah and Tehriki
made in USA/India, unless you read Quran in your
own code.
Sir, why follow Sharia all the time,
should do better and efficient like Iranians. !!
what do you think ?
well, death by hanging, of Saddam Hussain, is
permitted in US Sharia and 1.2 millions of Iraqis
not to be hanged but assassinated by bombs and gas,
just like 900.000 Afghanis Genocided by your
Americans allies.
Sir, why follow Sharia all the time, should do better and efficient like Iranians. !! what do you think ? [Reflection]
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Dear Reflection,
Then why you were condmening me for bein Secular? If we take your above comment seriously. Do you want to know the comment of Deobandi, Barelvi and Saudi Ulema-e-Kiram about Iran???
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well, death by hanging, of Saddam Hussain, is permitted in US Sharia and 1.2 millions of Iraqis not to be hanged but assassinated by bombs and gas, just like 900.000 Afghanis Genocided by your Americans allies. [Reflection]
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Please read about Saddam on my blog, I have already discussed him on my blog.
and what Allah SWT and Iqbal say about 20 millions of goolag victims killed by secular Stalin Khalifah of Lenin and Karl Marx ?? have you forgotten already dear ?
and what about Genocide of Afghanistan by communist and today by Yankee Pigs their masters of Naeem Siddiqui
Moskovitsi !![Reflection]
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On Naeem Siddiqui who left Jamat-e-Islami:
The never ending split in MMA By Alya Alvi
http://pakistantimes.net/2005/07/03/oped3.htm
THE Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal is heading towards further break-up as internal differences among the already reduced “six-party alliance” have posed major threat to its existence. Despite truce on NSC issue between Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the ideological gulf between the two is fast widening.
As frequent splits have already become a serious issue due to sole decisions taken by the two mainstream parties; especially Qazi-Baloch dominated Jamaat-e-Islami, more reasons are cropping up to bring the two heads at loggerheads. Reports suggest that Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Fazlur Rehman have entered into yet another conflict since Maulana Sherani accepted chairmanship of National Assembly’s Standing Committee.
“Qazi has lodged a strong protest with Fazlur Rehman over Muhammad Khan Sherani’s acceptance of the office of chairman National Assembly’s Standing Committee of Ports and Shipping”. It is said that Qazi, seeking explanation, also talked to Sherani and expressed great sense of resentment over his becoming chairman of the Standing Committee without taking him, being head of the alliance or the MMA parties, into confidence. “Sherani told Qazi that he obtained permission from Fazlur Rehman before accepting the office whereas Fazl, in his telephonic conversation, denied to have permitted him for the same.”
Qazi reminded Fazl and Sherani about the MMA and other opposition parties’ decision that they will not accept any office in the Standing Committees till the Government ensures allocation of the offices under the proportionate system. “Qazi Sahib takes the matter as a sheer violation of the party discipline.” However no disciplinary action is expected to be taken against Maulana Sherani following his position particularly in Balochistan where he is heading the MMA as well as JUI-F besides he has complete backing of Fazlur Rehman.
Maulana Sherani is the second from MMA who became chairman of a Standing Committee as JUI-S Chief Maulana Samiul Haq’s son, Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani is already holding such position. Qazi’s JI and Fazl’s JUI, the two major components of MMA, are already facing severe differences over the issue of participation of Chief Minister Akram Durrani in NSC and a final decision is still pending.
The JUI-F wants to ensure Durrani’s participation in NSC meetings whereas the JI has been left alone among the Majlis parties that are opposing such move since the council was established through an act of Parliament.
The MMA parties met on June 23 here in Islamabad to take up different issues including the NSC and maybe Sherani’s acceptance of chairmanship of the Standing Committee besides forming its general council. Making of MMA (Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal) is really a great thing. But the initially formed six-party alliance has reduced to a two-party ‘marriage of convenience’. With the death of Allama Shah Ahmed Noorani MMA witnessed the demise of JUP’s active affiliation.
Allama Sajid Naqvi virtually declared to quit the alliance. Maulana Sajid Mir has withdrawn his party’s participation. JUI-F and JUI-S are at daggers drawn. JUI-F itself has further developed differences from within. Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has ‘rebelled’ probably succumbing to JI tactics. Besides, the JUI-F in Balochistan functionally withdrew its support to JUI-F Central in joining the Qazi-led movement against President’s uniform.
Hafiz Hussain virtually ditched Maulana Fazl’s reconciliatory approach to have a peaceful political process in the country. It was the result of those splits with the MMA that the agitation, demonstrations, caravans and long marches ended in a futile exercise, as three parties JUI-S, MJAH and JUP-N were reluctant to join solo flight of JI and JUI-F. The recent resignation of MMA Punjab Secretary General Syed Mahfooz Mashhadi also indicated the rifts within. Mashhadi alleged that MMA president and JI Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed and MMA Secretary General and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman have created like-minded people in smaller parties of the alliance to easily impose their decisions.
“JI leaders hold their meetings on behalf of MMA and try to impose their decisions on the other parties. The provincial leadership of MMA was totally unaware about the decisions being taken in Central Shoora meetings of MMA” he said, adding “JI leader Hafiz Idrees who is also the provincial president of MMA did not take the provincial leadership of the alliance into confidence about the decisions of the supreme council of MMA.” He disclosed that after two years Qazi Hussain Ahmed has now admitted that MMA’s decision about the support of 17th constitutional amendment was wrong.
Senator Maulana Samiul Haq of JUI-S parted ways with MMA due to latter’s role in helping the ruling Pakistan Muslim League in passing controversial 17th Amendment while Markazi Jamiat Ahle-Hadith chief Senator Professor Sajid Mir was also annoyed at MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Secretary General Maulana Fazlurrehman for passage of amendment. Both the leaders have been ignoring the supreme council meetings of the MMA for a long time due to same reason. A central leader of JUP-N disclosed that small parties of religious alliance had reservation on the decision being taken by the central leadership of MMA.
However he said the central leadership was not bound to inform the provincial leadership about their decisions. According to sources Mashhadi resigned from the post of provincial secretary general due to cold attitude showed by the JI Punjab. Hafiz Idrees Ahmed of JI was appointed as president MMA Punjab without taking into confidence other smaller parties who could not activate provincial chapter so far.
It is said that JUP-N central secretary general Gen. K M Azhar has constantly been interfering in the matters of JUP-N’s provincial chapter and creating a lobby in the party for not giving an opportunity to Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani’s son Maulana Anas Noorani to become president of the party. Anas Noorani was reportedly not willing also because of the MMA leaders’ attitude towards his father.
Anecdote goes that in King Mamoon-ur-Rashid’s era two Hadith tellers once attended a Juma sermon at a mosque near Baghdad where the khateeb was narrating a Hadith, attributed to the Prophet [PBUH], through their source to which both the ravians strongly objected and vehemently denied having said that. “Get off, you are not the only two with those particular names…there are a hundred Zaids and Bakrs”, was the reply. The Imam got them shunted out of the mosque. The trend of “barha letay hein zeb-e-dastaan kay liey” goes on non-stop. The Ulema today are being wrongly dubbed as fundamentalists because in the fundamentals of al-Din there is nowhere to have the facts twisted, or utilize the opportunity to one’s own political ends. This is in sheer violation of “Why ye not do what ye do say?”
The bazaar of politics is infested with masquerading and mimicry, somersaults and gimmicks, telling lies and saving skins. Machiavellian approach continues to prevail upon, come what may. The ulema who have thronged this bazaar are out to ‘Islamise’ the trade of politics to their self-aggrandizement and addiction of ‘leading’ the nation with the interpretations of their deeds on their own.
It is pardonable that some of them opposed the making of Pakistan, pleading that practising Islam needs no ‘independent’ State. But it is not pardonable to continue resisting the fundamental principles of Islam. Farooq Haider Maududi, Maulana Amin Ahsan Islahi, Dr Asrar Ahmed and the latest desertion in JI Naeem Siddqui speak volumes while exposing the Jamaat leadership for its somersaults. Maulana Abul Ala’a Maududi, they say, had asked for not taking part in politics, but the vested interests allured it to low to resort to making headways in the gimmicks, no matter what the means could have been adopted. Maulana Fazlur Rehman has gone down with the legacy. He justified the “marriages of convenience” with a number of alliances, friends and foes, even PPP.
Though cracks have split the Mufti-legacy today, the “marriage of convenience” goes on as a political norm. When they are asked they say in the religion it is forbidden but politics is something different. The contract of petroleum oil was a convenience and the alliance with the PPP was a marriage.●
© 2005 Alya Alvi
Aamir Mughal,
do i need to go thru all your bloggistan, after how
notoriously you tried to distort and falsified
example of
Maudoodi's reference, on Kashmir's Jihad ?
are they all not rubbish and calculated distortion ?
come on, you guys are finished.
I shall no more waste my time on you !!
@ naeem Siddiqui never left Jamaat Islami,
its a flagrant LIE, and KIZB, were you told by
Sufi Mohammed made in USA/India ?
naeem Siddiqui never left Jamaat Islami, its a flagrant LIE, and KIZB, were you told by Sufi Mohammed made in USA/India ? [Reflection]
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Read the news clipping above about Naeem Siddiqui leaving JI.
I shall no more waste my time on you !! [Reflection]
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Dear Reflection,
Sir, I would rather insist that please wast more time on me and my blog and point out my mistakes.
Regards
What a laugh! The guy who thinks Sufi Muhammad is an American agent is telling me to read up on my contemporary history. Haha! Reflection, I only know you from your posts here, but I'm very confident that I'm far more educated about history and politics than you. Spare the advice. Haha
Aamir Mughal,
Good going man….with excellent exhibition etiquette. I mark you 100/100. @reflection "I shall no more waste my time…." You are 100% right this time because you cannot walk with the crutches of lame allegations.
Hats Off to you Amir.
The guy who thinks Sufi Muhammad is an American agent [Danial Burki]
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Dear Burki Sahab,
My God! Burki Sahab.
You shouldn't have repeated this Blasphemic Comment like this on a True Momin like Mawlana Sufi Mohammad [TNSM] and his Pious Companions because they are defending "Hudood Allah" Boundaries of Allah. Repent before its too late and rampant Angels of hell under the Command of Chief Protector Angel of Hell [his name is Malik "Jahannum Ka Daroogha"] may approach you swiftly and spank you to pieces.
TNSM COMMAND
1 – Women particularly Lady Doctors/Nurses of Shaukat Khanum Hospital should immediately be sent back to their home.
2 – All those Female Annaouncers of GEOTV/ARYONE particularly hot chick Faeza Dawood who interviewed Lal Mosque Brigade should be flogged for indecency and rest of the announcers should be sent back to houses, GEO TV should appoint Ansar Abbasi as Cheif Qazi of TV News Channels to administer Nikah Ceremony of all Un-married Female TV Announcers with Unmarried Journalists working in TV Channels and Newspaper. That will solve the problem of marriage, and those who are already married in these TV Channels should be allowed to take those Unmarried TV Announcers as extra wives because Islam 4 marriages to ease down the libido.
3 – All those TV Journalists who are clean shaved should have beards e.g. Talat Hussain, Hamid Mir, Iftikhar Ahmed, Kashif Abbasi, Ahmed Quraishi, Rauf Klasra, Javed Chaudhry extra and if anyone refuse then Ansar Abbasi should hold a whip and flog these clean shaved perverts.
4 – Milad, Shaam-e-Ghariban, Noha, and Salam-e-Aakhir – Must be banned on Islamic TV Channels like GEO TV since Ansar Abbasi has suddenly developed a Knack for Reciting Surah Nur for flogging therefore every Quranic Verse must be implemented in letter and spirit and Ansar should take start from GEO TV. Marketing Section and Advertisement Section should be monitored by Ansar Abbasi due to Suran-e-Nur Recitation.
Maireee maaaooonnnnn, maireee behnoooooonnnnn aur maireeeeyyy piareyyy piaareyy sathiooonnnnn aur mairey chaman, Summad Kharam.
Saheee bolaaa , bilkul barobar bola, tooo
Sala tooo aik kaam kar, Karachi aaja, teray jaison kai sath baree jamegee apnee. Saman chalana ataa hai yaa woh bhee sikhana paregaa? Jabb tak woh karachi aingey, cell phone cheen cheen kar guzara karnaa paregaa. Tayyar hai to pahlee fursat main pohanch.
Taliban are here!
Who will stop them is your main question if I am not wrong. Following is the last paragraph of your essay;
"But unlike what people think it will not be because of Zardari’s corruption or Gilani’s incompetence or Salman Taseer’s whiskies. We have survived them in the past, and so we’ll do again. However any country that has fallen to the Taliban has never recovered. The Taliban are here to stay and unless we stand up against them in every possible way Pakistan will be lost – for good! It will be the silence of the lambs which destroys us. You will be responsible if Pakistan fails."
Instead of reaching on a conclusion based on rational analysis you are also hitting the nail emotionally.
Provide justice & security to the masses, these masses will themselve defend any aggression to the country. You won't need Army & drones anymore.
And if Govt is not willing to provide justice & security to masses then no one can save us from taliban. Its not rocket science.
Its all about respect, respect your masses & then see how these masses will protect you even from the gps-enabled missile carried by drones.
For last 62 years you are cheating the masses, stop it to get protection from taliban(your nightmare).
@Aamir Mughal on April 21, 2009 @ 1:03 am
1 – Women particularly Lady Doctors/Nurses of Shaukat Khanum Hospital should immediately be sent back to their home
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The height of frustration, even then these women won't see you 🙂
The biggest threat to Pakistan;s stability after corruption is fraud. I hear serial convicted fraudter Saifee Durbar who originates from Kornagi in Karachi, the shanty town of the city is looking for a safe haven in our country. On the run fraudster Saifee Durbar was last seen being chased down Fulham Road London by some private detectives instructed by victims of Saifee Durbar 's frauds. Saifee Durbar has already been convicted in or is wanted in most European Countries and the USA where he is likely to get a prison sentence of 180 years if ever caught there or extradited. Pakistan's Federal Investigation Auhtority and ISI Agency have him on their radars I am told. Let's nail this bastard Saifee Durbar once and for all.
@reflection!
i got some interesting link.i found that @Amir Mughal which claims that poetry is haram and gives the loads of the refrences from Quran and Hdadith has a god taste for music and movies.check this out
http://www.blogger.com/profile/171231951908224180…
it would be a much better if you call it:
"the silence of a ham"…..lolzzzzz
@reflection!i got some interesting link.i found that @Amir Mughal which claims that poetry is haram and gives the loads of the refrences from Quran and Hdadith has a god taste for music and movies.check this out
http://www.blogger.com/profile/171231951908224180…
Comment by dr.jawwadkhan on April 21, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
it would be a much better if you call it: “the silence of a ham”…..lolzzzzz:
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Dear Jawwad Khan,
I am amazed that it took you so long to quote my profile. Yes, I declare that I like Movies, Music and other goodies which you Islamist yearn to enjoy but couldn't due to frigidity. I know very well that these are the vices which are disliked in Islam and I am indulged in these at my own risk and I am ready to be punished in the life hereafter. But I also know one thing which you are forgetting that despite all these vices are not Polytheism [Shirk], and Allah's Grace has saved me from Shirk [Polytheism] and Innovation [Bida'at].
I am more than hopeful that Allah will not only forgive me Insha Allah but also bless me with Paradise and that too Firdous despite my indulgence in the above mentioned vices. Allah says:
Lo! Allah forgiveth not that a partner should be ascribed unto Him. He forgiveth (all) save that to whom He will. Whoso ascribeth partners to Allah, he hath indeed invented a tremendous sin. [AN-NISA (WOMEN) Chapter 4 – Verse 48]
And (remember) when Luqman said unto his son, when he was exhorting him: O my dear son! Ascribe no partners unto Allah. Lo! to ascribe partners (unto Him) is a tremendous wrong [LUQMAN (LUQMAN) Chapter 31 – Verse 13]
On the authority of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) say: Allah the Almighty said:
O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great at it. [Tirmidhi and Musnad Ahmed Bin Hanbal]
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (PBUH), from among the things he reports from his Lord (mighty and sublime be He), is that he said:
A servant [of Allah's] committed a sin and said: O Allah, forgive me my sin. And He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for them. Then he sinned again and said: O Lord, forgive me my sin. And He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for them. Then he sinned again and said: O Lord, forgive me my sin. And He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for sins. Do what you wish, for I have forgiven you. [Muslim and Bukhari]
Music and Movies are nothing if you would compare it with Polytheism [Shirk]
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah (glorified and exalted be He) said:
I am so self-sufficient that I am in no need of having an associate. Thus he who does an action for someone else's sake as well as Mine will have that action renounced by Me to him whom he associated with Me. [Muslim and Ibn Majah].
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: Allah Almighty has said:
The son of Adam denied Me and he had no right to do so. And he reviled Me and he had no right to do so. As for his denying Me, it is his saying: He will not remake me as He made me at first (1) – and the initial creation [of him] is no easier for Me than remaking him. As for his reviling Me, it is his saying: Allah has taken to Himself a son, while I am the One, the Everlasting Refuge. I begot not nor was I begotten, and there is none comparable to Me.
(1) i.e., bring me back to life after death.
[Bukhari and Nasa'i)
Dear Jawwad Sahab,
Do you know as to why I will be forgiven by Allah and will be given Paradise in the life hereafter "Insha Allah" because despite enjoying Music and Movies in this World, I ALSO HAVE FIRM BELIEF ON THIS HADITH:
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
When Allah decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: My mercy prevails over my wrath. [Muslim, Bukhari,Nasa'i and Ibn Majah).
Dear Jawwad Sahab and Mr Reflection,
Please go through the Hadith before declaring anyone Kaafir on the basis of some bad deeds:
On the authority of Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) related:
A man said: By Allah, Allah will not forgive So-and-so. At this Allah the Almighty said: Who is he who swears by Me that I will not forgive So-and-so? Verily I have forgiven So-and-so and have nullified your [own good] deeds (1) (or as he said [it]). (1) A similar Hadith, which is given by Abu Dawud, indicates that the person referred to was a goldly man whose previous good deeds were brought to nought through presuming to declare that Allah would not forgive someone's bad deeds. [Muslim]
References of Hadith are from the Compilation of Imam Nuwi in RIAZ – UL -SALIHEEN Volume 1 and 2 and Al-Lulu Wal-Marjan Vols 1&2 by Fuwad Abdul Baqi
Dear Jawwad Sahab and Mr Reflection,
Dont worry about my salvation, you both should worry about your own Salvation. I pray the May Allah bless you and both of your families all the happiness and prosperity in here and in the life hereafter.
You should worry about my sins because you wont be asked any question by Allah about me on Judgement Day:
That no laden one shall bear another's load, And that man hath only that for which he maketh effort, And that his effort will be seen. And afterward he will be repaid for it with fullest payment; [Quran AN-NAJM (THE STAR) Chapter 53: Verse 38 to 41]
Say: Shall I seek another than Allah for Lord, when He is Lord of all things? Each soul earneth only on its own account, nor doth any laden bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return and He will tell you that wherein ye differed. [Quran AL-ANAAM (CATTLE, LIVESTOCK) Chapter 6: Verse 164]
Regarding Music:
Do you include Qawwali [Spiritual Chants] in Music or not? If not then why? If Qawwali is Halal [Lawful] then why Music is Haram [Unlawful]
Listening to Music doesn't make you Kafir [Infidel] and it is a vice which can be forgiven by Allah but not Shirk [Polytheism] and I thank Allah for that I am not indulged in Polytheism [that is too by the Grace of Allah]
I listen to Music without taking the cover of Sufism and I do it at my own expense and responsibility knowing the consequences in the life hereafter. By the way who will snatch this right from me of quoting Quran and Hadith and that too because of my indulgence in minor vice like Music. I wonder how would you justify the Sufi Music Festivals [in the name of Qawwalis and Qalandar Dances] held at different Shrines of so-called Saints of Allah, scattered all over India, Pakistan, Turkey and Iraq.
Aamir Mughal, Sir, btw do have a blog on seculars/marxists , and Takfir wal hijrah ? if you don’t, could you right one ![Reflection]
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Dear Sir,
If you would have paid attention on my blog then you wouldn't have declared me a Takfiri because I have compiled and added material on Takfiri Fitnah [those who issue unabashed Apostasy Decree against Fellow Muslims]
Here are links:
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/heresy-a…
The Takfiris make unlicensed Takfeer of Governments and scholars and call the common-folk to bloody revolution as a way to remove such governments and establish Islaamic Law.
“The judgement of apostasy and expelling someone from the religion is only appropriate for the people of knowledge who are firmly grounded in knowledge, and they are the judges in the various Sharee’ah law courts, and those who are able of giving legal verdicts. And this is just like the other matters, and it is not the right of every person, or from the right of those who are learning, or those who ascribe themselves to knowledge, but who have deficiency in understanding. It is not appropriate for them to make judgements of apostasy (upon others). Since, mischief will arise from this, and sometimes a Muslim might be judged as an apostate but he is not actually so. And the takfir of a Muslim who has not committed one of the nullifications of Islaam contains great danger. Whoever says to his brother “O Kaafir” or “O Faasiq”, and he is not like that, then the words will fall back upon the one who said them. Hence, the ones who actually judge with apostasy are the legislative judges and those who are able and fit for giving legal verdicts. And as for those who enforce the judgements they are the leaders of the Muslims (wullaat al-amr). As for whatever is other than this, then it is mere confusion.”
“Meting out the punishments is only appropriate for the leader of the Muslims and it is not for every person to establish the punishment, since confusion, and corruption necessarily follows from this, and also the cutting off of the society, tribulations and provocations occur. Establishing the punishments is appropriate (i.e. befits only) to the Muslim leader. The Prophet (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam) said, “Pardon each other for the punishments that are between you, but when the execution of the punishment reaches the [authority of the] Sultaan, then Allaah curses both the one who seeks intercession and the one who grants the intercession [i.e. to revoke the punishment]”. And from the responsibilities of the Sultaan in Islaam, and from those matters that befit him is the establishment of the punishments after they have been established legislatively, via the Sharee’ah law courts, upon the one who fell into the crime for which the legislator has designated a specific punishment, such as for stealing. So what has been said is that establishing the punishments (i.e. meting them out) is from the rights of the Sultaan, and when the Muslims do not have a Sultaan amongst them, then they should just suffice with commanding the good and forbidding the evil, and calling to Allaah, the Might and Majestic, with wisdom, good admonition and arguing with that which is best. And it is not permissible for individuals (in the society) to establish the hudood, since that, as we have mentioned, will bring about chaos, and also provocations, and tribulations will arise, and this contains greater corruption than it contains rectification. And from amongst the Sharee’ah principles that are submitted to is, “Repelling the harmful things takes precedence over bringing about the beneficial things”.
enjoy:
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/04/saudi-ar…
Amir Mughal,
Please don't make teeth maestro's blog as your scratch pad. It would be a blessing on the people of Pakistan if you get a job or in other words get a life.
You write books instead of comments. What do you do for living? if you are posting such long comments.
I bet your dad was "wadera" from Shikarpur and you have nothing better to do in life than write pages after pages of worthless comments. Sorry to say, but its more than a regular person can take.
@Samad,
“But unlike what people think it will not be because of Zardari’s corruption or Gilani’s incompetence or Salman Taseer’s whiskies. We have survived them in the past, and so we’ll do again. However any country that has fallen to the Taliban has never recovered. The Taliban are here to stay and unless we stand up against them in every possible way Pakistan will be lost – for good! It will be the silence of the lambs which destroys us. You will be responsible if Pakistan fails.”
do you mean we will learn to live with it? because as far as I know, Salman Taseer didn't quit his whiskies, I don't know about Zardair's corruption yet, as this would be public after he is gone
However any country that has fallen to the Taliban has never recovered.
Sorry, but what were you smoking? which country has fallen to Taliban? and not recovered? is there a big list? and even Afghanistan didn't fall to Taliban.
…..Pakistan fails
What happened in 1971? Wasn't that a failure? and also were Mullahz responsible for 1971?
No sir, if you have the courage to look for the truth and give up arrogance then look at who were responsible for the break up. It was the BEY-DEEN, Kaley Angrez who sold the soul of Pakistan, and stupid innocent Muslims were fighting to keep Pakistan as one state. You know what happened to those stupid innocent Muslims, who didn't want Pakistan to break? They are still paying the price. They are now living in refugee camps. This is how we have paid them back for their loyality to Pakistan.
Do you have the courage to flow against the stream? or are you just another dead fish which swims with the stream?