09-19-2004, 11:31 PM
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by the way our very own passport declines the so-called two nation theory.
on page 2 of our passport it says Nationality - and we write Pakistani. so we are a pakistani "nation" not muslim, there is a separate field for religion - dont know why???
azeem
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)) Yes we are the Pakistani nation !! true.. and muslims or christians or Hindus or Parsis or Sikhs etc.
â You will find that in the course of time, Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as the citizen of the stateâ â Muhammed Ali Jinnah â Quaid e Azam.
That would sum up the whole thing,.. and is my faith, for I do not see myself of a lesser Muslim if I see a pathan on the other side of the border in Afghanistan and consider him not a Pakistani.
Unfortunately the very ideology of Pakistan was hijaked after independence,.. people who sat on the fence and cried wolf became the country's gaurdians its Masihah.. well that is another argument all together,, some other day.
But Yes we are Pakistani first and foremost and muslims undoubtdly, the Muslim Ummah, Azeem, is dead ! you just need to take a look at the OIC and the 52 (or is it 54 now) muslim countries. We may have an Islamic state some where down the time line.. under Imam Mehdi. but that is destiny.. for now we are a Pakistani nation ,, and should think of ourselves as such .. Pakistan first and last.
Pakistan Forever.
"Allah does not change the state of people unless they change what is within themselves" Quran 1311
Edited by - pracs on Sep 19 2004 63230 PM
by the way our very own passport declines the so-called two nation theory.
on page 2 of our passport it says Nationality - and we write Pakistani. so we are a pakistani "nation" not muslim, there is a separate field for religion - dont know why???
azeem
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)) Yes we are the Pakistani nation !! true.. and muslims or christians or Hindus or Parsis or Sikhs etc.
â You will find that in the course of time, Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as the citizen of the stateâ â Muhammed Ali Jinnah â Quaid e Azam.
That would sum up the whole thing,.. and is my faith, for I do not see myself of a lesser Muslim if I see a pathan on the other side of the border in Afghanistan and consider him not a Pakistani.
Unfortunately the very ideology of Pakistan was hijaked after independence,.. people who sat on the fence and cried wolf became the country's gaurdians its Masihah.. well that is another argument all together,, some other day.
But Yes we are Pakistani first and foremost and muslims undoubtdly, the Muslim Ummah, Azeem, is dead ! you just need to take a look at the OIC and the 52 (or is it 54 now) muslim countries. We may have an Islamic state some where down the time line.. under Imam Mehdi. but that is destiny.. for now we are a Pakistani nation ,, and should think of ourselves as such .. Pakistan first and last.
Pakistan Forever.
"Allah does not change the state of people unless they change what is within themselves" Quran 1311
Edited by - pracs on Sep 19 2004 63230 PM
