POLITICS is an anti mode of Islamic polity: Pakistan’s national constitution boasts of being Islamic; no law can be enacted, tailored, enforced that militates against Islam as a system of public life; being Islamic intention is clear; but practice sounds anti-Islamic; in Islamic polity there is no room of pattern of life that is named/called politics; neither in the Madinah time of Prophet of Islam Mohammad PBUH nor during Caliphate tenures of history the nomenclature politics appear, written, spoken, used in public/state communications, what to speak of its pactice; further down to the governance of Caliph Umar bin Abdul Aziz no politics, not even its phonetics is found:
In Islam there are two managements: Management for the State and Management for Citizens Upward Life; State Management includes State’s defence, foreign affairs/relations with other states, currency while Public Life Management includes the subjects of Health, Housing, Economics, Social Management, Education, National Ethics, Justice, Law and Its Abidance/Conformity, and more all in line with the requirement of the time. All these mentioned subjects in Islamic polity are planned and implemented as Public Life Management. There is no mention of evil word politics (which literally means poly for multiple, tics for tactics: multiple tactics away from truth, fidelity) as any adjunct of Islamic system of Public and State Managements.
The word politics entered Islamic narrative with the translation from alien books/formalized propaganda; later weak Islamic social scientists gave in, could not defend the purity of Islamic polity quite distinct based on Quranic dictates and practice of Sunnah. Because Pakistan’s national constitution boasts of being Islamic the word politics and its play in State/National life needs to be expunged, deleted, demized, quitened in conformity with the pronounced intention of Islamic character of Pakistan’s National Constitution.
Ugliest part of practised politics is that it officially/governmentally allow civil peace breaking, disturbances, disrespect to laws corpus in the name of protests as a matter of citizenry right. How can peace, normalcy, public calm breaking be classified as right of citizenry? It sounds quite schizophrenic, in conflict with public decency, orderliness, public peace preference. Prevailing mode of politics vicariously promote non-peace in the society and there is a strong warning from God Almighty in the Quran, Surah Baqarah: La Tufsidu Fil Ardh (Don’t spread mischief on Earth}. This robust injuncttion of God Almighty needs to be incorporated in the National Constitution of Pakistan and also by all 57 countries in the OIC who claim to be Muslims, and being Muslims all must obey Godly command.
Therefore this word politics and its practice needs to be outlawed in Pakistan and by all geographic states who claim to be Islamic (57 in all at present); all hypocrisy is being carried out under the hypocritical term of ‘politics’, day in and day out lies, falsehoods, double-speak, hoodwinking, cheating etc are openly, actively carried out under the shade of ugly politics.
—The writer, a retired Secretary in AJK Govt, is a senior columnist, based in Rawalpindi.
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