As the Day of Independence of Pakistan reaching closer and
faster, the thought begins to revolve in one's mind, considering why our
ancestors did liberate this part of land? What made them to spend their blood
and sweat just for a separate piece of earth? Did they face so many hardships
and brutality from the Hindus and British just to see Pakistan on the verge of
disaster or their vision was something else?
These are some thought provoking questions that we have
still not been able to answer. We are still been incapable to decide the path
to follow, the system to adopt and the ideology to accept.
Since the independence, we have tried and tested every form
of government, from one man show to a parliament of hundreds, but still nothing
has got changed. Before 1947 British ruled us and now we are the slaves of
America.
We have witnessed well accepted first PM Liaquat Ali Khan,
US puppet Field Marshall Ayub Khan, pro-Soviet Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, so called
Islamist General Zia-ul-Haq, corrupt Benazir, Nationalistic Nawaz Sharif,
coward Pervez Musharraf and now shameless current PPP government.
It's been long sixty five years we have not found the key to
success and the way to prosper. When we see China that was founded two years
later after Pakistan's independence, we feel much pity.
The core reason behind the calamity faced by Pakistan and
the Muslim world is the contradiction between its ideology and the system being
implemented in those countries. Capitalism and Democracy have failed to suit
our belief. The basic tenets of these two notions like majority rule, personal
freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of ownership,
federalism, sovereignty of man and others are in contradiction with Islam.
In Capitalist Democratic countries, the criterion is profit
and loss, sovereignty belongs to people and the role of Parliament is to
legislate through human brain of majority. On the other hand, where the
ideology is Islam the principles are Halal and Haraam, manifestation is Sharia
(Khilafa), sovereignty belongs to Allah and the role of Shura is to advice the
Caliph to implement Allah's Deen with Quran and Sunnah.
Pakistan could not prosper until we eliminate Interest based
Capitalist economic system where more than 65% of revenue of the country comes
from taxes on the people. Out of these taxes 70% are indirect taxation that are
to be paid by even a beggar, unemployed, handicapped, widow, elderly people and
children without any differentiation.
While, Islam apply no taxes on common man and taxes like
GST, Income tax, withholding tax, toll taxes etc are all illegal and will be
abolished in Islamic system. The permanent sources of revenue would only be
Kharaj, Jizya, Ushr, the fifth of Al-Rikaz (hidden treasures minerals), import
and export duty on foreign traders, Zakat on import and export of the Muslim
Trader and Hima (protecting from public properties). The rules related to
collection of funds and its distribution constitutes "Economic
System" and cannot be taken from other than Islam.
In Democracy, the human needs are unlimited while there are
limited resources to fulfill, in result the needs of all the people won't be
fulfilled and the solution lies in the increase in production to fulfill needs
of as many people as possible.
Whereas, for a Muslim human needs are of two types i.e.
basic needs (limited) and luxurious needs and world resources are enough to
fulfill the basic needs of all the people of the world. The decisive factor for
distribution of wealth and resources in Islam is to guarantee all basic needs
to each individual. In the same time, the Islamic State will endeavor its best
to create opportunities so that maximum number of people can work to fulfill
their luxurious needs.
The recent uprising in Syria has witnessed remarkable
achievement where the people are calling for Islam only. The people of Syria
have clearly understood that the situation lies only in Islam and Caliphate.
The days of Bashar Al-Asad are almost over now and Islam is about to rule the
sacred land.
In the same manner, Pakistan's rulers cannot continue to
make us fool with their double talk who at times seem more loyal to the
Americans than anyone else.
Nevertheless, as the saying goes 'you can fool some of the
people all the time, all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all
the people all the time.'
So, the one and only way to prosper for Pakistan and the
other Muslim world is the system of Caliphate, the unification of lands and the
implementation complete Islam.
Syed Hassam Ahmed
Department of Mass Communication,
University of Karachi,
Pakistan
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