The Ideology of Pakistan

The ideology of Pakistan has become a hot topic of discussion in the perspective of the forthcoming general elections and all sorts of speculations are being made in the news media.

Pakistan is an ideological state which obvious from its name: The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The ideology of Pakistan is obviously Islam and is defined in the 1949 Objectives resolution passed by the Constituent assembly framed to draft the constitution of Pakistan in the following clauses:

“Wherein the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice as enunciated by Islam shall be fully observed;
Wherein the Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings and requirements of Islam as set out in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah;

Wherein adequate provision shall be made for the minorities to [freely] profess and practice their religions and develop their cultures;”

Pakistan’s Islamic ideology is unique as it differs from those of the other two Islamic Republics of Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian ideology is based entirely on the Shiite teachings as adopted by the iatollahs. The Saudi ideology is entirely based on Sunni beliefs as interpreted by wahabi scholars.  Pakistan’s Islamic ideology is based on the contents of the holy Quran and Sunnah without bias towards any sectarian interpretations and guarantees the rights of nonMuslim residents and travelers.

Genesis

Genesis: Allah worked for six ages of a thousand years to set up the mechanism of creation and established His headquarters in heaven, then said "happen" and the world took shape. He monitors the state of affairs in the world and sends new ideas in a cycle of a thousand years. All life emerged from water. Humankind has been created in the best era of the world's existence. (Al-Qur’an verses 10:3, 21:30, 32:4-5, 95:4,)

A six day routine is also found in the Christian Bible (Old Testament) and Jewish literature, but there the length of the day is not indicated and the sequence is rather poetic. From the accounts in the holy Qur’an it appears that the creation of the physical universe and human beings was a well planned and systematically executed project. Apart from giving various symbolic accounts of creation the Qur’an also states the scientifically established notion that life originated in water. Biblical researchers have estimated the life span of prophets from Adam to Moses at about 1000 years each and established a lineage. Most probably they had normal life spans and were born 1000 years apart and were not related as they were born at different places in an area spanning from Egypt to Iraq and Palestine to Yemen.