Of Utopia reiterators and their liberal counterparts.

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.

  

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