Utopia reiteration season is upon us
again. Once again all the newly hatched liberals will go to war with the old
school utopia re iterators and when the liberals will have depleted their logic
reserves they will remind the re iterators,
of Bangladesh, to which the re
iterators will reply in kind with the latest profanities available in the
market. Finally every body will go about their businesses, after all its a 24
hour window. Tomorrow is supposed to be India bashing day. New day, new battle.
Some say it was born on the 14th of
August, others believe it to have come into being on the 15th. Some say it came
into existence in the name of Islam, others preach it was taken 'for' the
Muslims of the subcontinent. Some say a line was drawn when the objectives resolution
was passed, others are of the faith that a line was crossed in doing so. Some
say dictatorship shouldn't have been an option, others argue for its inevitability.
Some say the Quaid was a kaafir and that Pakistan should not have come into
existence, others deem him to be the epitome of morality, and the creation of
Pakistan to be divine in nature. And yet each one of these people is vehemently
self righteous about their ideologies without a hint of consideration for the
other's perspective.
From day 1 Pakistan has been a confused
piece of land, with a large population of pseudo intellectuals preaching their
ideologies to any and all who care to give an ear to them, not realizing the
fact that the amount of non researched and crude information they are imparting
to their effectees will only trigger along more confusion and turbulence.
Pakistan is a multiethnic and
multicultural entity, moreover its inhabitants believe in different
interpretations of religion, therefore the fact that we are a Muslim majority
country is sidelined due to our overt fidelity towards our own version of
religion and our ethnicity, rather than religion itself. We would have been
good if we'd resorted to believing in our versions, the problem began when we
set out to preach our version to the masses in a forcefully vehement manner and
others reciprocated. This gave birth to a culture of self righteousness and
intolerance in which each one of us has set out to prove the others
wrong.
In order to stop this cycle of madness
Firstly, we need to accept. We need to accept that the founding fathers of our
nation as great as they were, were human beings and human beings have an
evolutionary thought process. Let’s accept that they might have started the
freedom struggle with a different set of convictions as compared to the ones
they had when they finally achieved this piece of land. After all that's how
human beings operate, they adjust to changing situations.
Secondly, we need to confess. We need to
confess to Mr. Jinnah and his friends that we screwed up and we screwed up
because we could not appreciate the humanness of our founding fathers. We could
not understand that human beings are prone to change. We just picked and chose
a certain part of their intellectual discourse, which was obviously in
accordance with our own convictions and started chanting them as loud as we
could in the hope that all opposing voices will be overshadowed . Moreover we
need to accept that we will never be able to agree on what future Mr. Jinnah
had envisioned for Pakistan. But that is only possible if we are ready to take
a cue from history. It’s been almost seventy years and we are still at
loggerheads with each other over the very foundation of our nation.
Finally, in order to move forward we need
to let go,
lets confess to Mr. Jinnah that we screwed
up, and we'll never agree on what shape he wanted to give to Pakistan, and move
ahead.
Decide our fates on the basis of the now
and here. how do we need to shape it today in order to move forward and for
once truly let Iqbal's and Jinnah's souls rest in peace.
