State affairs & religion ریاستی معاملات اور مذہب
Dear friends! I rarely take part in political conversations or depict my views over issues concerning such matters. This may be to avoid the intense rampage or annoyance of my friends who are badly conjured by magic of their political leadership. Albeit they do not kneel down and bow their heads infront of their political idols but yet they consider their idols as angels who cannot commit a mistake even. In such ambiguous situation, I have made a commitment with myself, that it us better to refrain from political confabs than to lose friends. Nevertheless, one cannot put himself / herself aside from politics in this country where all the time one is being confronted by politics on every step of life.
Now a few days earlier, the state capital Islamabad was completely hijacked by a newly designed radical religious cum political party i.e. Tehrik e Labaik. The procession and place in protest has paralyzed the system that caused deaths in ambulances and put hindrances on the way for people who could not proceed to offices, businesses, institutions and other other walks of life.
Whatever were thr reasons of deadlock but it is very clear that tug of war was between current regime and contractors of religion that has finally defeated the ruling government to surrender all the way on conditions put forwarded by Tehrik e Labaik.
In order to save Pakistan from any future vandalism, permanent collapse and a complete colateral damage, the educated and human friendly sect of this country has finally to decide and formulate a strategy to segregate religion from state matters. For this smooth transition / transformation, the current government, all departments, the intelligencia and every progressive member of society has to play a pivotal role for this inevitable change.
It is crystal clear that religious intervention in state affairs can paralyze the state by isolating it from the rest of world and it is not specific to Pakistan only but it can be any state in the world running on this roadway. If we put aside all such matters being affected by the conflict of religion and state for a while but to discuss the impact of religion on economical system.
To elaborate precisely, lets take an example; if our banking system is formulated purely on Islamic principles then there would be no markup / interest on any transactions (all sort of debts and deposits) from banks. (Interestingly all Islamic banking systems are being run on markup / interest formats because the the so called Islamic banks are compelled to deal on international rules i.e. the interest / markup system). Meanwhile, if we suppose there is an other state strictly following the principles of Buddism in state matters including the banking system and that might be either based on markup / interest system or a system that is by any mean contradicting the Islamic principles . Now keeping these two different banking systems in view, how would then these two states of the world can trade / exchange of goods with one another on states level because transfer of such huge amounts can't be done on hand to hand level without involvement of banks.
This was just an example of two states working completely under the umbrella of their prescribed religious principles, so where about the rest of 4000 religions and their banking rules.
Similarly there are thousands of other matters where one state can't be interacting with other state because the religious teachings of anyone would be prohibiting each other in different matters of worldly routine. Furthermore if religion is not segregated from state matters then there exist multiple minority based religions within states, so how would then they survive?
It is therefore, the need of time to understand that religion and state are two different entities and both shall be kept in their respected domains to abnegate from the clash of different religions. According to the true face of Islam, peace progress and prosperity are lying in respecting the ideologies and beliefs of others and Islam doesn't stop us from "change with time" because 66% of Islam is based on worldly matters. Hopefully the message would have been understood with its theme.
Thanks alot and looking for your positive feedback.
Dear friends! I rarely take part in political conversations or depict my views over issues concerning such matters. This may be to avoid the intense rampage or annoyance of my friends who are badly conjured by magic of their political leadership. Albeit they do not kneel down and bow their heads infront of their political idols but yet they consider their idols as angels who cannot commit a mistake even. In such ambiguous situation, I have made a commitment with myself, that it us better to refrain from political confabs than to lose friends. Nevertheless, one cannot put himself / herself aside from politics in this country where all the time one is being confronted by politics on every step of life.
Now a few days earlier, the state capital Islamabad was completely hijacked by a newly designed radical religious cum political party i.e. Tehrik e Labaik. The procession and place in protest has paralyzed the system that caused deaths in ambulances and put hindrances on the way for people who could not proceed to offices, businesses, institutions and other other walks of life.
Whatever were thr reasons of deadlock but it is very clear that tug of war was between current regime and contractors of religion that has finally defeated the ruling government to surrender all the way on conditions put forwarded by Tehrik e Labaik.
In order to save Pakistan from any future vandalism, permanent collapse and a complete colateral damage, the educated and human friendly sect of this country has finally to decide and formulate a strategy to segregate religion from state matters. For this smooth transition / transformation, the current government, all departments, the intelligencia and every progressive member of society has to play a pivotal role for this inevitable change.
It is crystal clear that religious intervention in state affairs can paralyze the state by isolating it from the rest of world and it is not specific to Pakistan only but it can be any state in the world running on this roadway. If we put aside all such matters being affected by the conflict of religion and state for a while but to discuss the impact of religion on economical system.
To elaborate precisely, lets take an example; if our banking system is formulated purely on Islamic principles then there would be no markup / interest on any transactions (all sort of debts and deposits) from banks. (Interestingly all Islamic banking systems are being run on markup / interest formats because the the so called Islamic banks are compelled to deal on international rules i.e. the interest / markup system). Meanwhile, if we suppose there is an other state strictly following the principles of Buddism in state matters including the banking system and that might be either based on markup / interest system or a system that is by any mean contradicting the Islamic principles . Now keeping these two different banking systems in view, how would then these two states of the world can trade / exchange of goods with one another on states level because transfer of such huge amounts can't be done on hand to hand level without involvement of banks.
This was just an example of two states working completely under the umbrella of their prescribed religious principles, so where about the rest of 4000 religions and their banking rules.
Similarly there are thousands of other matters where one state can't be interacting with other state because the religious teachings of anyone would be prohibiting each other in different matters of worldly routine. Furthermore if religion is not segregated from state matters then there exist multiple minority based religions within states, so how would then they survive?
It is therefore, the need of time to understand that religion and state are two different entities and both shall be kept in their respected domains to abnegate from the clash of different religions. According to the true face of Islam, peace progress and prosperity are lying in respecting the ideologies and beliefs of others and Islam doesn't stop us from "change with time" because 66% of Islam is based on worldly matters. Hopefully the message would have been understood with its theme.
Thanks alot and looking for your positive feedback.
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