 Jihad against trousers
Islam teaches service to humanity, not what people
should wear
By Ali Ashraf Khan
August 21, 2003
The Iranian
Religious parties in Pakistan are involved more
in propagating Islam -- as they think it to be -- rather
than work for the mandate
which
has been given to them by the nation.
Islam does not consist of
besmearing the faces of females on billboards. Islam is much
more
than that. It teaches self-reliance, it teaches character building,
it
teaches service to humanity, it teaches abhorrance of corruption
in all
forms.
It is therefore imperative on members of Pakistan's
parliament to abide by the mandate given to them and not destroy
their image
by
fighting for frivilous
issues
such as donning students with shalwar instead of
trousers.
Islam
is a
progressive religion and wants the Musalmans to be progressive
in all
walks of life. Let us not go back to the seventh century.
I wonder if powers that are again out to push Pakistan back
and
derail it from the track of democracy as they have been doing for
the
last fifty-five years.
Are members of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA)
playing the game of power? Are they trying to stop the progressive
march of the country? Are MMA members so naive that they
can not discern hay from bran?
Let them understand that no dress
is Islamic or un-Islamic and so
is pardah. Character does not reside behind a woman's
veil, it is in
their hearts and family upbringing.
MMA deputies
in
the North West Frontier Province are advised not to take
off the trousers of college students and
replace it with the shalwar. Shalwar is not
an Islamic dress and the Holy Prophet
Mohammad (P.B.U.H) never put on a shalwar. Every dress
belongs to the region according to the climate and social customs,
and
no dress
is prescribed
anyware.
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