Special Article
MIRZA SHAHNAWAZ AGHA
WHEN it comes to law making a number of fac ulties are inferred upon but most it is sociol ogy and economics. Sociology because we need to coexist and economics because we need to coexist with equity. Robbing, plundering, marauding, killing, usurping, the like acts, are primitive and in denial of all laws that warrant the evolution of human civilisation. The evolutionary process of human civilisation is as important as growing up, maturing and qualitatively coexisting. We the human race cannot be caught up into cannibalistic instincts for social or economic gain. It only belittles and declasses us into lesser beings! There has been no consensus yet, on this diabolic economic and social phenomena in the history of man. We in fact see the oft enactment of laws contraryto civility, supporting ‘id’in denial of ‘ego’.The choice is between priming civilisation and attempting a change, or settling for, as the way of the beast! The obstacle is, of course, the economic gain available to just three percent of the global population that fiercely defend the status quo. Caring and sharing is romanticism and does not sell in the least. Judicious activism is an impotent route to take where universal laws are biased to wealth. What remains proverbially is ‘set a thief to catch a thief’! There is no roadmap to this revolution and it seems impractical to lead a charge because wealth cannot be isolated.What remains is a paradigm shift from wars by resistance or submission. All tools of war that oppress, subjugate, rob and coerce are manned and it is these people that can and will enable equitable peace. The last and final divine message that induces us to struggle in the way, to correct the course of history, clearly points in this direction. This does not imply disarmament it warrants equality in arms indigenously made. The management of the planet needs to be addressed on the basis of parity by brinkmanship for an equitable level of subsistence. This is perhaps the limitation of options. Education alone can right size the global population and kill pollution-of- sorts, that is destroying the ecology. More. We need, irrespective of our size, to represent an ideology that is based on the truth instead of deception and hypocrisy. When one speaks or writes about the way forward prescribed by the Divine Dictum one is brushed aside as overly idealistic and fantasying. The counter argument inevitably is also ‘which brand of Islam’! This is more because the complication presented by the clergy in Islam, responsible in fracturing the unity of the ideological commonality amongst its followers. These dichotomies are overpowering and malign entire image of Ummah. One cantakethe application and adoption oflaws as arein place in New Zealand as an example. This country can easily be assessed as an Islamic Republic for legal structure of State. The next biggest hurdle seems to be money. How can we have money to implement what is required of us, by Allah?!These are nonsensical arguments of a verylaid back or plantedleadership.The simplethingto understand about money, which has fallen on deaf ears in eons, is as follows: If money is a commodity then any anyone can make and market it, and if it is only a medium of exchange then it has to be valued at zero. What is manifest as a consequence here are two aspects of law: One that all people are equal by their right of birth and two that they are also equal in their righttothe ownership ofthe planetthey are born onto. They have to use same medium of exchange or use a tangible as a medium of exchange. There is no such thing as your money and my money. This doctrine is supported as an injunction in our belief and stands to reason. The disparity is in extent of labour, education, and political will to be equals, under-dogs ortop-dogs, proverbially put, with peers. When we place ourselves at inception in the underdog category because of nationhood criteria, or by our accepting printed paper as a commodity with intrinsic value then we politically (not religiously) settle to remain subservient to laws that warrant cannons of law for slaves. This is the fundamental premise which needs to be reckoned with in the Islamic Republic to find independence. This is also where the evolution of our societies kick in, on the bandwagon of human civilisation. These causes are fundamental in supporting monolithic rule in pockets of our very divided Muslim societies. War lords, kings, despots are all a product of this initial acceptance of the unnatural basis of global governance. Had the clerics, in any pocket of Islamic society or in politics, ideologically given edicts to block this abuse and economic terrorism we would be the fountainhead of knowledge leading the evolution of human civilisation. True to the salt, the Message ofAllah has no place for the clerics or kings, as we all read, hear and understand. The monolithic forces that have and continue to govern Muslim societies are essentially responsible for this debacle forcing this very human friendly civilisation into decadence and ruins. The kings in Islamic history and the clerics have remained pseudo partners for the entire extent of the recorded saga. The Western model of democracy and the Islamic model are slightly different when compared from the preview of the laws in political science. Sociological order has always rested on a strong leadership and in Islamic model therefore this has been surrendered to a very independent judiciary. They are neutral umpires between governors and the governed and entirely above corruption as a consequence. They evolve into office as highest court of appeal and this is not any democratic journey as we know democracy of today. The Executive differentlyis always elected asthey represent the people. The bureaucracy, civil or military, are required to be institutionally secular and insular evolving on management sciences representing merit. The judiciary cannot be over-ruled by the Executive and the bureaucracy cannot be politicised by Executive.The umbrellathat keeps all arms of the government in place is a set of statues legislated, based on Divine Dictum we need to follow without compromise or fear. The economic scare is an alibi of the wise who cheat the people to retain their monolithic hold on territory and people of Nation States only to serve larger interests of aliens. ‘FearAllah’‘Fear nothing butAllah’are injunctions we must not trade to our own detriment. — The writer is an entrepreneur and author of the book ‘Current Chronicles’ based in Karachi.
