If Pakistan was an Islamic country....

We would try to reach the level of piety that is demanded by Allah, not any Mullah: True piety is this: To believe in God, and the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the Prophets, to give of one’s substance, however cherished, to kinsmen, and orphans, the needy, the traveller, beggars, and to ransom the slave, to perform the prayer, to pay the alms.

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By Dur-e-Aden | December 5, 2011

All citizens of the state would be equal: God forbids you not, as regards those who have not fought you in religion’s cause, nor expelled you from your habitations, that you should be kindly to them, and deal equitably with them; surely God loves those who are equitable (60:9).

Muslims won’t be afraid of being killed by their fellow Muslims: And whoso slays a believer wilfully, his recompense is Gehenna, therein dwelling forever, and God will be wroth with him and will curse him, and prepare for him a mighty chastisement (4:94).

Jews and Christians would be treated with utmost respect because they are our Abrahamic brothers: Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, and the Christians, and those Sabeans, whoso believes in God and the Last Day, and works righteousness---their wage awaits them with their Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow (2:63).


No matter what other countries do, we would never degrade any Prophet: Say you: We believe in God, and in that which has been sent down on us and sent down on Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob, and the Tribes, and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and the Prophets, of their Lord; we make no division between any of them, and to Him we surrender (2:137).

We would protect the places of worships of all religious communities: And who does greater evil than he who bars God’s places of worship, so that His name be not rehearsed in them, and strives to destroy them? Such men might never enter them, save in fear; for them is degradation in the present world, and in the world to come a mighty chastisement (2:115).

We would never desecrate any holy book: He has sent down upon thee the Book with the truth, confirming what was before it, and He sent down the Torah and the Gospel aforetime, as guidance to the people (3:4).

We would try to reach the level of piety that is demanded by Allah, not any Mullah: True piety is this: To believe in God, and the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the Prophets, to give of one’s substance, however cherished, to kinsmen, and orphans, the needy, the traveller, beggars, and to ransom the slave, to perform the prayer, to pay the alms. And they who fulfil their covenant, and endure with fortitude, misfortune, hardship and peril, these are they who are true in their faith, these are the truly god-fearing (2:178).

Men would give women the dowry: And give the women their dowries as a gift willingly (4:5).

Women won’t be forced into marriages: O believers, it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will (4:20).

We will provide justice even to our enemies: Let not a people’s enmity incite you to act otherwise than with justice. Be always just, that is nearer to righteousness (5:9).

We won’t punish people for blasphemy in this world but leave the case for God to judge: Those who hurt God and his Messenger---them God has cursed in the present world and the world to come, and has prepared for them a humbling chastisement (33:58).

And lastly our religious or sectarian differences won’t come in between our common relationship of being Pakistanis: To you your religion, and to me my religion! (109:5).

  -- If Pakistan was an Islamic country....
  -- By Dur-e-Aden
  -- Ahmadiyya Times