--- In khabor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Javed Iqbal Kaleem
<javediqbalkaleem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Islamic Laws have been devised by the Creator and Sustainer of the
> universe and are valid till eternity. But like senseless animals of
> the west, Awami League went for a secular system.
>
And drunkards, womanizers, rapists and mass murderers like Yahya Khan,
Tikka Khan, AAK Niazi and Rao Farman Ali Rao went for the Islamic
system? Ek Bal is being about as blasphemous as it can get. Shame on him.
>
> According to a recent survey, 82% US citizens are religious. Their
> policies and actions are based on their religious beliefs.
> Similarly, India is secular in name only and promotes Hinduism and
> Hindu culture, at the cost of minorities.
>
Ek Bal is making a fool of himself by implying that drunkards,
womanizers, rapists and mass murderers like Yahya Khan, Tikka Khan,
AAK Niazi and Rao Farman Ali were religious. It is these Mir Jafars
that couldn't live with the 1970 election verdict of God-fearing
voters. It is these Mir Jafars that decided that the elected Assembly
must either defer to the dictates of the military and its allies or
else the East Pakistanis must be cowed down by a merciless campaign of
wanton killings/rapes. The exodus of refugees was seen as a step in
the right direction toward reducing East Pakistanis to a manageable
minority. And if all else fails, the military was quite willing to
force the expulsion of the majority East Pakistan from the country to
ensure the military's hold over the rump Pakistan.
>
> It was the leaders of Awami League, who were fools enough to ditch
> Islam and Islamic unity and go for secession.
>
Awami League had no reason to want to secede. It had won an absolute
majority in the election. Parties like NAP were on the same page with
it. It was all ready to frame a new Constitution in accordance with
the wishes of the voters. It was all ready to form a government.
It was the Mir Jafars in the military that was not willing to let the
Assembly to proceed with the tasks for which it had been elected. It
co-opted Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto by appealing to his ambition and ego.
Bhutto made an extremely grave mistake by using the military to ride
to power. And by the time he realized the mistake, he was standing
helplessly atop the scaffolds in April of 1979 done in by a ruthless
military dictator to ensure the army's primacy over civilians in what
was left of Pakistan after December of 1971.
In fact, General "Tiger" Niazi, in a finger pointing exercise in his
book, "Betrayal of East Pakistan" readily admits the military's
culpability quite explicitly. According to Niazi it was Bhutto, in
complicity with some generals, who was responsible for the breakup of
Pakistan. Describing Bhutto's gameplan, Niazi writes that first he got
'rid' of East Pakistan so that he could become prime minister of a
truncated Pakistan, all the while blaming the army for the breakup.
Next he got Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan, the then chief of General Staff, to
organize a coup in cahoots with Air Chief Rahim Khan in order to get
rid of the President and the Supreme Commander, Gen Yahya Khan. Later,
Bhutto double-crossed Gul Hassan as well.
Clearly the Generals were the arch villains, the Mir Jafars. And they
were most certainly blind as well. The Generals could not see that
they were risking humiliation at the hands of India.
>
> They did not want to learn Urdu, but look how Farid and Zill are
> writing superb English. Is it because it is the language of their
> overlords? They learned English for the needs of stomach, but
> refused to learn Urdu to fulfill the needs of spirit."They are like
> beasts or even worse!"
>
Ah! So that's the prime motive behind Ek Bal's shrill swearing in the
name of Islam. Ek Bal has clearly inherited Ayub Khan's racist
ideology that had Bengalis as Hindu-tainted inferior Muslims and
Bengali as a Hindu language.
Kipling swore everything on the "white man's burden". And Ek Bal
continues to swear, some 3 dozen years after the ignominious surrender
of 100,000 soldiers of the Pakistan army, about the "Urdu speaker's
burden" - a very convenient subterfuge to justify Yahya Khan's
determination to scuttle the mandate of the 1970 elections for the
purpose of preserving the status quo which would leave East Pakistanis
as a subject people and never as compatriots.
When Ek Bal was in Saudi Arabia, did he insist on Urdu? If not, why
not? Wasn't he suc***bing to the dictates of his stomach?
More im****tantly, what makes Ek Bal conclude that Bengalis need to
"learn Urdu to fulfill the needs of spirit"? Does Allah prefer Urdu
over Bengali?
Has Ek Bal been able to fulfill his own needs of the spirit with Urdu?
How come Ek Bal is so ignorant of the scriptures that he knows as
little of Hazrat Daud as he does of Hazrat Sulayman? How come Ek Bal
has no qualms about putting the words of a British aristocrat in the
mouth of Hazrat Isa?
Ek Bal has never read any work of Kazi Nazrul Islam. But as a racist
bigot, he had no hesitation in opining that there is no comparison
between Muhammad Iqbal and Kazi Nazrul Islam who is merely a minor
poet writing on obsolete thoughts!
In patriotism, for one, Kazi Nazrul Islam was miles ahead of Iqbal.
Does Ek Bal know that many a Nazrul publication had been banned in
British India by the British rulers? Does he know that Nazrul was
imprisoned for his beliefs? Does he know how Nazrul had gone on hunger
strike inside the British prison?
As for Iqbal, his loyalist views showed up most crassly in his
dealings with Punjab Governor Sir Michael O'Dwyer of Jalianwalabag
massacre infamy.
At the request of that infamous Sir Michael O'Dwyer, governor of the
Punjab, Iqbal chose to eulogize the empire in the wake of the infamous
Rowlatt Act. The eulogy was read out in 1918. In it, addressing the
King of England, Iqbal says:
"If there is freedom of speech and writing here, if there is peace
between the Temple and the Mosque here,
"If there is an organised system of business of the various
peoples here, if there is strength in the dagger and life in the sword
here,
"Whatever there is, it has been granted by you, O honoured one,
this land is alive only because of your existence.
"I am the tree of loyalty, love is my fruit, a just witness to
this statement are my actions.
"Sincerity is selfless, so is truth selfless, so is service, and
so is devotion selfless,
"Pledge, loyalty and love are also selfless, and devotion to the
royal throne is also selfless,
"But being human the thought which arises naturally is, that your
favours are manifest upon India."
This was published in the paper Akhbar-i Haq, the magazine Zamana of
Kanpur, and the book Hindustan aur Jang 'Alamgir (`India and the World
War') by L. Ralya Ram. It was then published in Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, on
pages 216 to 219. It was first read out by Dr. Iqbal himself at the
Punjab University Hall, Lahore.
This wasn't an isolated event. When Muslim League broke apart in 1927,
Iqbal chose to side with the pro-British faction and presided over the
rump.
Iqbal indeed has a long history of licking British boots. He wrote
many a poem in praise and adulation of the British rulers of India.
Upon the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Dr. Iqbal penned an
epicedium of ten pages, entitled `Tears of Blood'. The Queen died on
the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, and Iqbal wrote:
"Happiness came, but grief came along with it,Yesterday was Eid,
but today muharram (Month of the year associated with the deepest
mourning for Muslims) came.
"Easier than the grief and mourning of this day, Would be the
coming of the morn of the day of judgment.
"Ah! the Queen of the realm of the heart has passed away, My
scarred heart has become a house of mourning.
"O India, thy lover has passed away, She who sighed at thy
troubles has passed away.
"O India, the protective shadow of God has been lifted from above
you, She who sympathised with your inhabitants has gone.
"Victoria is not dead as her good name remains, this is the life
to whomever God gives it.
"May the deceased receive abundant heavenly reward, and may we
show goodly patience."
(Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, Poem runs over pages 71– 90.)
In December 1911, on the occasion of the coronation of King George V,
Iqbal wrote and read out a poem entitled `Our King':
"It is the height of our good fortune, That our King is crowned today.
"By his life our peoples have honour, By his name our respect is
established.
"With him have the Indians made a bond of loyalty, On the dust of
his footsteps are our hearts sacrifced."
(Baqiyyat-i Iqbal, p. 206.)
I am not surprised that someone like Ek Bal cannot appreciate Kazi
Nazrul Islam and must fulfill the needs of his spirit with Iqbal. For
the time being, let me tell Ek Bal, "for us our deen and for you yours".
>
> Muhammad Javed Iqbal
>
>
> Dear Hannan Saheb!
>
> In my humble opinion, Saudi Arabia is not an ordinary country, but
> pivotal centre of Islam.It is the mainland of Islamic faith.
> Non Muslims should not be allowed in it in the first place. Is it
> fair that hundreds of thousands of Indian Muslims are deprived of
> job op****tunities, but they are hiring Hindus and Sikhs. From
> countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan or any Muslim country for
> that matter, millions of qualified and experienced workers can be
> provided, benefiting both sides, but they are hiring citizens of
> non-Muslim countries.
>
> In the westrern world, religion is a matter between man and God; no
> third person is required. On that basis, non Muslims can pray at
> home, why they need a Church ? Secondly, non Muslims are not
> permanent residents of Saudi Arabia. Tomorrow when young Saudis
> are educated and take over the jobs from the expatriate non-Muslim
> workers, what will happen to those churches. Besides, I think the
> instruction to expell the Jews and Christians, applied to whole of
> Arabia and not Hermain Sharifain, alone. After all, the Arabian
> peninsula has a 100% Muslim population since 1400 years. No
> authority has the right to change that.
>
> This is my opinion and I am open to a convincing quote from Quran
> or Hadis or even saying of one of the rightly guided caliphs. So
> if you have something, bring it forth.
>
> Muhammad Javed Iqbal
>
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