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Pakistan Muslims: so-called guardians of Islam

I come in contact with people of all nationalities and they all think that Pakistani Muslims are more fanatical than Arabs. In fact, one Arab even told me, “You Pakistanis think that the Holy Koran was revealed in Urdu, on 14th August 1947!”

There is a great deal of truth in all this. Consider what happens in Ramadan. Pakistanis think that they’re doing a great favor to everyone by fasting. All work virtually comes to a standstill, and in the last ten days of the holy month you find people walking around as if they’ve not slept for many days. In such circumstances, you cannot ask clerks and factory workers to work at normal speed. If you do, they look at you as if you’ve said something bad about their sisters or mothers. “Can’t you see I’m fasting!” is their response. You want to tell them that you’re fasting too, but it hasn’t affected the quality or quantity of the work you do, but since the atmosphere is already tense, you decide not to respond.

Another abominable trait among so-called Pakistani scholars of Islam is to utter totally irrelevant Arabic sentences (from the Holy Koran) whenever they want to make a point. While this may impress illiterate people, any educated person can see that they’re trying to show off.

Once I was in a restaurant, when a man started behaving in a crazy manner. One of his companions had cast doubt on his honesty, so he began shouting and asking everyone the direction of Makkah. “I want to pray right here!” he shouted. I pointed out that the time for the afternoon prayer had already elapsed, but if he wanted to pray so fervently, there was a mosque on the other side of the road. But he kept repeating, “I’m a true Muslim, I carry a prayer carpet with me all the time!” He didn’t explain why, if he was a true Muslim, he had missed the afternoon “namaz”. But then, all hypocrites are alike, and Pakistanis are more hypocritical than others.

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11 responses to “Pakistan Muslims: so-called guardians of Islam”

  1. Usman Avatar
    Usman

    Excellent post. Except I don’t agree that Pakistanis are more extreme than Arabs. The Gulf Arabs are as radical as Pakistanis such as the Saudis. Infact they are the ones who promote this sort of radicalism in Pakistanis.

    Pakistanis try way too hard to be Arab and ape them in every move.
    It’s sad to say but Islam has become a modern tool of Arab imperialism and is destroying our identity.

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  2. Mohammad Yusha Avatar
    Mohammad Yusha

    @Mr. Lakhani: I just mean less hours, with less pay of course. If a person is sitting around doing nothing then his/her income will be haram.

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  3. Shakir Lakhani Avatar
    Shakir Lakhani

    Yusha: In the Middle East (UAE) all governmetn schools and some private schools were closed throughout Ramzan this year. Secondly, when you say that the load on workers should be lightened (and this is the first time I’m hearing it), does it mean that the workers should be allowed to sit around the whole day and get paid for doing nothing? Remember, the temperature in Saudi Arabia (where the Holy Koran was revealed) sometimes goes to over 50 degree Centigrade (the average summer temperature in Karachi is 32 Centigrade). So it makes sense to lighten the load of workers in that country but not in Pakistan. As far as Arabs are concerned, you evidently don’t have much contact with them or you’d know the contempt with which they treat Pakistanis. In fact, I’ve been told by many people that Pakistanis are often disqualified from competing in Koran recital contests in the U.A.E. because of their defective knowledge and pronunciation of Arabic.

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  4. Lt. General Ayub Khan Avatar
    Lt. General Ayub Khan

    the Arabs (as in the gulfy oil towel-head arabs —not the Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Jordanian,Libyans) are lizard eaters

    Islam transcends borders and race. Those who follow the religion are guardians of the religion. Pakistan happened to market itself as the Guardian of Islam under General Zia —who sent SSG Commandos to protect Saudi Royal family and also the Makkah, during the siege

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  5. Mohammad Yusha Avatar
    Mohammad Yusha

    >In fact, one Arab even told me, “You Pakistanis think that the Holy Koran was revealed in Urdu, on 14th August 1947!”

    Does it matter what Arabs say? Arabs rant shirk and bidah at everything that doesn’t make sense to them. One Arab even told the world that people can slap their wives for overspending. They come up with the weirdest fatwas and their shirk and bidah rants are famous. Please don’t tell people what some Arab told you.

    >In such circumstances, you cannot ask clerks and factory workers to work at normal speed. If you do, they look at you as if you’ve said something bad about their sisters or mothers. “Can’t you see I’m fasting!” is their response. You want to tell them that you’re fasting too, but it hasn’t affected the quality or quantity of the work you do, but since the atmosphere is already tense, you decide not to respond.

    There is a Hadith that says a workers load should be lightened during Ramadan. In the Middle East, working and school hours are reduced during Ramadan.

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  6. Shakir Lakhani Avatar
    Shakir Lakhani

    Thanks, Gran Badshah and Eid Mubarak to you.

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  7. GRAN BADSHAH Avatar
    GRAN BADSHAH

    NO need to be angry friend becoz if we give reason a chace and show a little bit of tolerance then it will dawn upon us that shakir stresses the need of muslims who are practical and man of action. he actually oppose those wordly muslims who uses islam as a tool of thier publicity and personal ends.

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  8. Shakir Lakhani Avatar
    Shakir Lakhani

    @Mr Adnan Siddiqui, please go back to whoever taught you English and ask him/her to refund (with interest) all the money you paid. And please offer your comments when you’ve learnt to write English properly.

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  9. Adnan Siddiqi Avatar
    Adnan Siddiqi

    @khoobseerat: well Said, ignore this author , he often writes about things which he himself is not aware at all. 🙂

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  10. Khubseerat Avatar
    Khubseerat

    Asslam’u Alakum & Eid Greetings to all who made most of Ramadan!

    Firstly, no one is guardian of Islam but Allah. If someone – like me, a Paki, or anyone else – thinks they are guardian of Islam, then it is their misunderstanding.
    I see it as an interesting topic because I have seen such behaviour of people around me & all, and I personally believe that all the problems being faced in Pak today r just coz of lack of the education and understanding of Islam – not traditons+Islam’s confusing mixture but true religion!.

    But I think writer has been TOO irrational and made some such points which r just unwise & don’t hold water.
    e.g. response: “Can’t you see I’m fasting!”, well if that person knew the true purpose of fasting they would have never said that, so if u knew why then don’t u explain them the true purpose of fasting; just because ‘ atmosphere is already tense’ is not enough pal, by saying that u r just leaving a person illiterate as u found! No point of your having got the knowledge then, I think.
    and ‘“You Pakistanis think that the Holy Koran was revealed in Urdu, on 14th August 1947!” is just making me lauuuuuuuugh bcoz it wasn’t something I had expected from someone having even very little knowledge of the religion. By the way, why that arab brother used “your Pakistanis”, doesn’t it mean that we aren’t family – what about that Universal Brotherhood I hear a lot about?

    I am just concerned that why do we give up so soon and leave our brothers/sisters in faith on their own???

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