Islam in Pakistan (a Noun vs Verb)

Islam is a pun on words for Pakistanis.

Islamic Republic of Pakistan declared solely as an Islamic state in 1947 has a lot of controversies since creation. Among these the most interesting is the story of national religion ISLAM as a noun and as verb. It is only a matter of understanding that how it survives as per grammatical terms and there is no doubt to any queries related to everything corresponds to the state affairs.

Pakistan is strictly and largely divided into two schools of thoughts. An extreme of believers taking Islam as a noun while the other believing Islam as a noun. These are the only two sections dominating all the cultural, social, economic and political circles of the state. The contradictions and controversies encountered by the state from minor to major level revolve around these two perceptions among bi-class mentalities.

And most importantly, there is no general discernment among masses to accept this reality and work upon developing any common area of cooperation among the two. This is getting dangerous by the time due to consistently fluctuation in the state affairs and disturbed lives being exhausted by the people. It is as simple as a mirror but of highly concern to have a positive social up gradation.

The story of Islam as a noun or verb is quite interesting and vague for being ignored since long. Among the two classes the former believing Islam as a noun is quite see religion as a private property. They study religion, claim to be a good Muslim but also feel the implication of the theory of survival of the fittest. Therefore, corruption, maladjustment, conspiring, thefts, drinking, adultery and so are all legal and justifiable. Though the religion forbids all these but they are the requirement of time and can’t be discarded if one wants to survive with leisure or peace. Islam is a noun for them and too nominal to be taken into any serious thought.

Music, womanizing, killing, to the extent of insanity through whatever means is not a big deal. If they have the potential to do, they are the only ones to have the right to live and as they please. They don’t like being entitles as the extremists and believes that Islam gives them the right to live their lives according to the circumstances and need of time. Even if they offer their prayers, recites the Holy Quraan, it has nothing to do with how they move in society or progress in their lives.

The later is typically called as the fundamentalists. And the segment of society that takes Islam as a verb. They apply it with all the directions and actions. To have beard, offer prayers five times, recite Quraan, aiming Hajj as sole aim of life, make their women do veil in public are the key points to this class. They are more sensitive in applying the matter of Fiqh in their daily routines. They dislike the former division and never intermingle with them assuming them as liberals and impure Muslims. For these, only those who show Islam through practicality are the right ones. They are associated to conservative minds but are proud to be ones. This is dominating the middle and the lower portions of the Pakistani society and maintains a clear line of difference with the group comprise the nominal Islamic ideologies.

This is a contrast non-existent in the religion itself. People themselves have built this wall of separation to gratify their desires accordingly disregarding religion in its true essence. They accepts the teachings they like and unset the rest. Even the ones termed as extremists don’t understand the religion in its true sense. Islam isn’t a noun or a verb rather a complete code of life in the modest of its form to facilitate human beings. It has all the set of rules and regulations that produces benefits not only on individual basis but collectively to the society.

It is a state that has quite an emotional impact of religion as to its existence. Because of the reason, people can easily be triggered in the name of religion. Contrary to that, the economically elite section is more in the influence of the materialism and advancement. This has disintegrated the society into fragments with various hues, making it more complex to get comprehended for most. These complexities are most affluent in raising conflicts at ground levels despite of claiming the constituents of the same religion. In order to understand the constraints in the way of development in Pakistan, the religious impression are important to study. Though, the resolution to this issue is as hard as its definition.