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The Painful Pages of our History
by Orya Maqbol Jan
This is the chapter in our history whose golden words are being
attempted to be erased and wiped, so
that the influential class of Pakistans society who were gifted
lands, fortune, high official posts and
medals by the British and were imposed on the poor of the
country. Amongst them the politicians,
bureaucrats, army officers, all of them want to prove that this
country was created on the basis offinancial reasons and its
founder Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a secular minded
individual
and wanted to make this country a secular state. The golden page
of the history of this god given
country will not be found in course books, not in the writings
of scholars, neither any sound of it will be
heard in television talk shows or in the words of a thinker.
Everyone tried to scratch this off from this
countrys history. The youth of today can only find fabricated
and distorted history to read, and is seen
roaming around asking the question, Was Pakistan really made in
the name of Islam? Did Quaid e Azam
really wanted to implement Islamic rule of law? What is in this
page of history, this declaration and this
proof which is being attempted to be removed.
On the 14th of August, 27th of Ramazan right after the creation
of Pakistan, the Pakistani government
invited the famous thinker, scholar and writer Allama Muhammad
Asad to Pakistan. He was granted
Pakistani citizenship and first Pakistani passport was issued to
him. After this Quaid e Azam Muhammad
Ali Jinnah initiated a request for a department which would set
up the constitution, law and education
syllabus as per the soul of this country that is the Islamic
way. This institution was named as the
Department of Islamic Reconstruction; its leadership was
entrusted to Allama Muhammad Asad. This
was the first institution of Pakistan which had with its name
the word Islamic. To clarify the objectives
and boundaries of the department on 18th October 1948 Allama
Muhammad Asad, delivered a speech
from Radio Pakistan. He said that the aim of this department is
to mold the rules and constitution of
Pakistan according to the Islamic teachings, for which this
country was created.
Who was Allama Muhamamd Asad? Before finding out his credentials
it is necessary to know about his
struggle. People know him by his bestseller, Road to Makkah. But
for the Muslim nation his other feats
have been kept hidden. On 2nd July 1900 a child was born in a
Jewish household in Lehmberg, a city in
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the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was names Leopold Weiss. His
father was a lawyer and his grandfather
was a Rabbi. After early Jewish teaching in his home, he started
normal education and ended up in
Vienna University. During this he learned German, French,
English, Persian and Urdu. After his education
he became a journalist and spent time script writing and
travelling. On his journalistic endeavors he
came to Jerusalem and stayed with his uncle who was a student of
the famous psychologist Sigmund
Freud. He also published a paper on the solubility of soul from
New York. The fervor of learning new
languages took him to Arabic language and the Arabic language
introduced him to Quran. During this
time he came to know of the plight of the Muslims and the
conspiracies of the Jews against them. To
unveil these conspiracies he started writing about them. In 1926
in the city of Berlin, Germany
impressed by the truth of Islam, he reverted to Islam and named
himself Muhammad Asad. The story of
his journey from Muhammad Asad to Allama Muhammad Asad is an
amazing one. He travelled to every
Muslim country and instigated its inhabitants to rid themselves
from the enslavement of western
powers. In 1932 he reached another enslaved country Hindustan
and in 1934 he met Allama Iqbal, who
convinced him to end his journeys and stay to work on the
condition of the Muslims of the Sub-
Continent. According to Allama Muhammad Asad, Allama Iqbal
changed his stream of thinking. And he
started working on the thinking and educational basis of an
Islamic state. Allama Iqbal had him made
head of Islamic department of a University in Lahore, but he
wanted to work freely and independently.
This person spent hours with Allama Iqbal and started writing
articles in newspapers all over the globe
on ideological and Islamic personality of the country of
Pakistan, the Urdu translation of it used to
appear in a newspaper in Lahore. Allama Asad delivered lectures
on the nature of an Islamic country and
the Two-Nation theory in Lahore and Delhi. But the Second World
War started. His parents were
murdered by Hitler because of them being Jews. And he was
arrested by the British government of
Hindustan on the suspicion of being a German spy. After six
years when he was freed he started
publishing a newspaper called Arafaat in which he published
articles by the name of What is the
meaning of Pakistan. In these articles the famous slogan
vibrated the Sub-Continent. What is the
meaning of Pakistan. La Illaha IllAllah. One month prior to the
independence of Pakistan he wrote a
detailed article and explained the objective of Pakistan as to
set up its constitution, rule, economic
system and education syllabus on basis of the teachings of
Islam, and stressed on this being the actual
objective of the creation of Pakistan. The subject of it was
Towards an Islamic Constitution. After this
last edition he came to Lahore and Pakistan honored him with
being the first Pakistani citizen. This was
the practical and thinking treasure on the basis of which the
founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah
instituted him the task to lead the new department called the
Islamic Reconstruction. And due to his
essays and articles, he was entrusted the responsibility of
formulating the constitution and law of
Pakistan on the basis of Islamic principles. Allama Asad started
publishing his paper Arafaat from this
institution. He made immediate recommendations; two amongst them
were such that they would incur
the displeasure of the influential of todays society. The first
one was that whoever has been gifted a
fortune by the British and they are now sitting with the titles
of Nawab, Khan, Chaudhry or wadera,
their belongings should be confiscated. And the second
suggestion was that a complete Islamic system
of education and syllabus should be formulated. And even if it
takes three years to formulate, till that
time all educational institutions should be closed. Because it
is better for children to sit at home rather
than studying in an educational system where there is falsehood
taught about their religion, values and
even personalities, and they move ahead in their life with this
fiction. Now this section of people is in
