
Originally Posted by
Mughal1
There are two major contributions of sir syed ahmed khan to put ummah back on track.
a)education of ummah for its survival. All educated muslims from india owe it to sir syed ahmed khan.
b)the principle that natural world works naturally so laws of nature must never be opposed and the proper interpretation of the quran is only that which is based upon real world realities not fiction, myth, legend, magic, mystery and superstition.
He opposed mullahism as well as secularism of ruling elite based upon capitalism. He knew more than a few languages eg urdu, arabic, persian, english, hindi, punjabi etc.
Coming to iqbal, his major contributions are discovery of the fact that muslim imperialists deconstructed original concept of islam to suit themselves and that original islam could be reconstructed by using the quranic text itself. He too knew more than a few languages eg urdu, arabic, persian, english, punjabi, hindi etc.
Once he realised the original concept of islam, it dawned on him that it cannot be fully practised without a piece of land under its jurisdiction. It is this realisation that brought him to idea of creation of pakistan. The idea was not to create a country in sense of nation state but to create a piece of land with islamic government as show case to show the world what islam looks like in practice. Unfortunately he died nearly a decade earlier but he managed to prepare a man to take his idea forward and that man was mr m a jinnah.
The creation of pakistan was opposed by all the mullahs save a few. There was a major battle between all the mullahs on one side and iqbal, jinnah and parwez on the other. The creation of pakistan was opposed by the british, by hindus and by mullahs. How pakistan was created under such circumstances was nothing less than a miracle.
Pakistan was created on basis of two nation theory ie islam and anti islam systems of government. The original sources about it exist in urdue but very little in english. The reason is that after creation of paksitan, the country was taken over by the very elements against whom the creators of paksitan fought in united india ie mullahs and secularists.
The movement was supposed to be based on a few steps eg first refine the concept of islam and create two nation theoiy then convince muslims about it and then fight to get a piece of land and once land is there implement the right concept of islam in the land. Thereafter work hard to make the idea a success so that other muslim nation states could follow and then let nonmuslims see what islam looks like in practice so that they too use it their lands and the world becomes united as per principles of islam.
Unfortunately after pakistan became independent the founder of paksitan also died, leaving field free for mullahs and ruling elite to do as they pleased with little opposition from odd people.
The ressult, the wrong concept of islam was brought back by collaboration between mullahs and the ruling class. It is because this is the way world was always ruled by these two groups ie mullahs ruled people in the name of religion and kings ruled people in the name of country. This is where the concept of separation between religion and state comes from if we study history.
Two nation theory is simply about rule by God v rule by kings and priests or now rule by ruling elite and priests.
Islam that is wide spread is backed by priests and rulers therefore those who really know real islam have very limited resources to oppose it hence the real islam is not known to very many people.
People talk about hadith, tafaseer and history books but never stop and think who might have written them or modified them and why? Why islam is preached and publicized so much on basis of hadith and tafaseer books rather than the quran? It is because the quran sets goals for mankind and states some guidelines which do not allow imperialism or master slave relationship between mankind. Islam is all about freedom, justice, fairness, compassion, brotherhood, progress and prosperity for mankind. These are quranic terms for peace between mankind and anyone who does not accept these terms for peace has been given two choices a)bring better terms for peace or b)fight is on till all opposition to these terms is eliminated.
The question is, have we understood quran properly?
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