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تبلیغی بیان, ، عالم ، گستاخی اور پٹائی

جماعت ہو چکی تھی۔ ایک گروہ ایک طرف بیٹھا تھا اور بختیار ان کے درمیان کھڑا تقریر کر رہا تھا۔ اس تقریر کو خاص اصطلاح میں ''بیان‘‘ کہا جاتا ہے۔ نماز سے فارغ ہو کر میں بھی بیٹھ کر بیان سننے لگا۔ بختیار محیر العقول، ناقابلِ یقین واقعات پے در پے سنا رہا تھا۔ ایک عجیب و غریب واقعہ ختم ہوتا تو دوسرا شروع کر دیتا۔ بیان ختم ہؤا۔ اُسی نے دعا کرائی۔ مسجد سے نکلتے وقت اس سے پوچھا: ''بختیار بھائی! آپ کا بیان بہت اچھا تھا۔ جو واقعات آپ سنا رہے تھے، وہ آپ نے کہاں سے پڑھے؟ ان کی کوئی سند؟‘‘ بختیار مسکرایا اور کوئی جواب نہ دیا!

جنید جمشید کے حوالے سے جو واقعہ اسلام آباد کے ہوائی اڈے پر پیش آیا، اس میں مار کھانے والا‘ مارنے والے سب مسلمان تھے اور پاکستانی تھے۔ اس پر میڈیا میں بالخصوص سوشل میڈیا پر انواع و اقسام کے تبصرے ہو رہے ہیں۔ مگر اس واقعہ کے مضمرات میں ایک پہلو ایسا ہے جس پر کوئی توجہ نہیں دی جا رہی اور وہی اس سارے واقعہ کا اصل سبب نہ سہی، بہت بڑا سبب ضرور ہے!

امرِواقعہ یہ ہے کہ جنید جمشید عالم نہیں۔ انہوں نے دین کا باقاعدہ علم کہیں سے نہیں سیکھا۔ وہ گلوکار تھے۔ کایا کلپ ہوئی تو تبلیغی اجتماعات میں ''بیان‘‘ کرنے لگ گئے۔ مشہور تو پہلے سے ہی تھے، الیکٹرانک میڈیا کو نہ چھوڑ سکے، فقط زاویہ بدل لیا۔ پہلے صرف نعتیں پڑھیں۔ پھر درس اور تقریریں کرنے لگ گئے۔ کئی سال سے ہر رمضان میں کسی نہ کسی ٹی وی چینل سے ان کا باقاعدہ معاہدہ ہوتا ہے اور وہ پورا مہینہ وعظ اور تقریریں کرتے ہیں!

تبلیغی جماعت سے پہلے برصغیر میں (اور باقی عالمِ اسلام میں اب بھی) مذہبی وعظ و تذکیر صرف وہ علماء کرتے تھے جو باقاعدہ دین کا علم سیکھ کر آتے تھے۔ انہوں نے عربی زبان، ادب، فقہ، منطق، صرف، نحو، فلسفہ، علمِ کلام، پھر حدیث اور تفسیر پڑھنے میں آٹھ دس سال لگائے ہوتے تھے۔ اکثریت کی تقریریں ذمہ دارانہ بیانات پر مشتمل ہوتی تھیں۔ آپ علماء کو دیکھ لیجیے۔ مولانا تقی عثمانی، مفتی منیب الرحمن، مولانا طارق جمیل، مولانا راغب نعیمی، مولانا ساجد نقوی، ان حضرات نے اپنی ساری جوانیاں قال اللہ اور قال الرسول سیکھنے میں گزاریں۔ اس کے بعد بھی مطالعہ اور کسبِ علم جاری رہتا ہے۔ روایت یہ تھی کہ عوام الناس کے لیے وعظ و تبلیغ کا کام علماء کرام کرتے تھے جنہیں قرآن و حدیث پر، فقہ و تفسیر پر، مسائل پر اور تاریخِ اسلام پر عبور ہوتا تھا!

تبلیغی جماعت کا المیہ یہ ہے کہ وہاں ہر شخص نے ''بیان‘‘ کی صورت میں تقریر کرنا ہوتی ہے اور یہ لازمی ہے۔ فرض کیجئے، سہ روزہ کے لیے دس افراد کی تشکیل ہوتی ہے۔ ان میں سے ہر شخص کو اپنی باری پر تقریر کرنا ہو گی۔ اگر علمِ دین سے اس کا دور سے بھی تعلق نہیں، دکاندار ہے، یا فون آپریٹر ہے یا مکمل نا خواندہ ہے، وعظ اس نے ہر حال میں کرنا ہے۔ اب جو وعظ وہ کرے گا اس کا اندازہ بخوبی لگایا جا سکتا ہے!

جنید جمشید نے جو کلمات ایک مقدس ہستی کے بارے میں کہے (بعد میں انہوں نے معافی بھی مانگی)گمان غالب یہ ہے کہ کوئی عالمِ دین ایسے الفاظ کبھی نہ کہتا۔ عربی کی مشہور کہاوت ہے۔۔۔۔ لِکلِّ فنِّ رجال، جس کا کام اُسی کو ساجھے۔ بڑے بڑے ثقہ علماء، فنِ تقریر سے نابلد ہوتے ہیں۔ ہر کوئی وعظ اور تقریر نہیں کر سکتا۔ سیّد انور شاہ کاشمیری علم کا سمندر تھے ‘ سید عطاء اللہ شاہ بخاری ان سے کم علم رکھتے تھے مگر خطابت کے بادشاہ تھے۔ علامہ اقبال ہر گز ایسے مقرر نہ تھے کہ مجمع پر چھا جاتے۔ لطیفہ یہ ہے کہ ہمارے سکہ بند علما ء نے آج تک ابوالاعلیٰ مودودی اور دوسرے کئی سکالرز کو تو ''باقاعدہ‘‘ عالم اس لیے تسلیم نہیں کیا کہ وہ کسی مدرسہ سے فارغ التحصیل نہ تھے۔ مگر جن لوگوں کو مدرسہ کی ہوا بھی نہیں لگی اور جن کی وجہ شہرت کوئی اور ہے، وہ الیکٹرانک میڈیا پر دین سکھانے میں لگے ہیں۔ سوشل میڈیا پر ایک معروف سابق کرکٹ سٹار کا وعظ سنا جا سکتا ہے۔ ایک ایک فقرے میں تین تین بار ''دوستو بزرگو‘‘ کہتے ہیں۔ انتہائی غیر موثر! اپنے ایک ساتھی کرکٹ کھلاڑی پر برس رہے تھے کہ کہتے ہیں ملک ٹھیک کروں گا، بقول ان کے اپنا گھر تو ٹھیک نہیں کر سکتے! 

یہ حقیقت ہر شخص کو، خواہ وہ عالم ہے یا غیر عالم واعظ، اچھی طرح سمجھ لینی چاہیے کہ اس ملک کا گنہگار سے گنہگار اور بے عمل سے بے عمل مسلمان بھی کسی مقدس ہستی کے بارے میں کوئی نازیبا جملہ برداشت نہیں کر سکتا۔ سرور کونین صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم، انبیاء کرام، امہات المومنین، اہلِ بیت عظام اور صحابہ کرام کے بارے میں حد درجہ احتیاط سے اور ادب و احترام سے بات کی جانی چاہیے، یوں کہ معاذاللہ، گستاخی کا دور دور تک شائبہ بھی نہ ہو۔ یہ دلیل محض جو شیلی بات نہیں، حقیقت پر مبنی ہے کہ ہم اپنے ماں باپ‘ بہن بھائیوں ‘بیوی بچوں کے بارے میں گالی تو درکنار، منفی بات بھی برداشت نہیں کر سکتے۔ پھر مقدس ہستیوں کے متعلق ناشائستہ اور ذومعنی قسم کے کلمات کون برداشت کرے گا؟ شائستگی کا تقاضا یہ ہے کہ دوسرے مذاہب کی مقدس ہستیوں کے بارے میں بھی کوئی غیر مناسب بات نہ کی جائے۔ اس کی طرف اشارہ کلام پاک میں بھی کیا گیا ہے!

رہا یہ عذرِ لنگ کہ وہ تو زبان کی لغزش (Slip of Tongue) تھی یا یہ کہ زبان سے الفاظ نکل گئے، تو سارے الفاظ زبان میں سے نکلتے ہیں‘ زبان کو قابو میں رکھیے۔

نفرت کا ایک محرک تجارت کے لیے مذہب اور مذہبی جذبات کا استحصال بھی ہے۔ حقیقت یہ ہے کہ عوام الناس ایسے لوگوں کو پسند نہیں کرتے۔ ایسے ایسے اشتہارات الیکٹرانک میڈیا پر رات دن دکھائے جا رہے ہیں جن میں باریش مالک کی تصویر بار بار دکھائی جاتی ہے۔ آخر میں ''دل دل پاکستان‘‘ کا تڑکا بھی لگایا جاتا ہے۔ مذہبی اور حب الوطنی کے جذبات کا تجارت کے لیے یہ استعمال مناسب نہیں۔ ہم ایک جذباتی قوم ہیں۔ میں اگر مذہبی ہوں اور مجھے بار بار یہ بتایا جا رہا ہے کہ فلاں برانڈ، ایک مذہی شخصیت کی ملکیت ہے تو میں غیر شعوری طور پر متاثر ہوں گا اور قدم اُسی طرف اٹھیں گے۔ آقائے نامدار سے محبت اس قوم کے رگ و ریشہ میں سرایت کیے ہے۔ یہاں اس مقدس نام پر نہاری بیچی جا رہی ہے۔ بیکریاں چلائی جا رہی ہیں۔ عشقِ رسول میں ڈوبا ہؤا سچا اور سادہ مسلمان، آقاؐ کا نام دکان کے سائن بورڈ پر دیکھ کر کیسے آگے گزر سکتا ہے؟ بس یہی وہ جذبہ ہے جس کا تاجر حضرات استحصال کر رہے ہیں۔
''اسلامی شہد‘‘ کا بورڈ دیکھ کر لوگ رُک جاتے ہیں؛ حالانکہ آج تک دنیا میں کسی شہد کو غیر اسلامی نہیں کہا گیا! اس دنیا میں جتنے ماکولات اور مشروبات ہیںاور استعمال کی جتنی بھی اشیاء ہیں، قدرتی ہیں یا مصنوعی، سب پروردگارِ مطلق کی قدرت کا کرشمہ ہیں اور اس کی پیدا کردہ انسانی دماغ کا عطیّہ! پھر ہم کچھ کو اسلامی اور کچھ کو غیر اسلامی کیسے کہہ سکتے ہیں؟

 کیا صحرائے عرب میں پیدا ہونے والی کھجور اسلامی اور کیلی فورنیا کی کھجور غیر اسلامی کہلائے گی؟ نہیں! ہر گز نہیں! بیج سے درخت اُگانے والی اور درخت پر پھل لگانے والی ذات ایک ہی ہے اور یہ زمین کیا، پوری کائنات اُسی کی مٹھی میں ہے!!
اظہارالحق- دنیا 

مزید پڑھیں:
  1. مسلما نوں اور علماء کے نام کھلا خط : آج کے حالات میں مسلم معاشرہ نظریاتی  ابتری اور انحطاط کا شکار ہے. مادہ پرستی، دہشت گردی، عدم برداشت، اور جہالت انسانیت، امن اور مذھب کے لیے خطرہ بن چکے ہیں- ان حالات میں صاحب علم و ذی فہم حضرات سے ممکنہ حل کی توقع کی جا سکتی ہے. ہمارا مقصد ہے کہ آپ کی توجہ ضروری حل پذیر مسائل کی طرف مبذول کرنا ہے تاکہ جلد حل تلاش کیا جا سکے- آپ کی توجہ اور مدد سے ہم کوشش کر سکتے ہیں کہ معاشرہ کو اس  گہری دلدل سے نکال سکیں. مکمل خط اس لنک پر پڑھیں : http://goo.gl/y2VWNE
  2. نظریاتی اور فکری کنفیوژن اور ممکنہ حل


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Heaven on earth by imposing extremist version of religious law by force

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Every religion has a certain group of` people who believe that over a period of time, religion becomes distorted, polluted and misinterpreted as a result of` which, it loses its originality, purity and simplicity.
These people then make it their mission to revive the original teachings of religion and implement them to reform the society.

Since they believe that innate human nature leads man to a sinful life; evil must be thus eliminated from the society and people must be led to the righteous path and their wrong doings corrected using coercive methods and severe punishment.

To implement their religious ideals, these groups struggle to capture state power and then use it to transform society according to their particular vision.

History has several examples of individuals who, gripped with religious fervour and zeal and desirous of accomplishing their ideas, strove to seize power and implement their agenda. The followers of these religious movements claim to be `rightly guided people,` assigned by God to convert the world into a `religious utopia` so that everyone would strictly follow divine commands.

One example of this breed is Savonarola (d.1498), the Florentine priest who was a fiery speaker and a religious extremist. He attacked the authority of the church and the spiritual power of the Pope. He condemned corruption and irreligious innovation which he believed had disfigured the teachings of Christianity. In doing so, he won the support of a group of young followers with whom he shared his views of societal change. With their help, he attained the political power needed to implement his religious ideas. He also promulgated a set of laws intended to make a `new Jerusalem` out of Florence. He proposed that exile and capital punishment should be abolished. He wanted Florence to become a glorious, peaceful and prosperous state.

Savonarola also introduced moralistic laws against sodomy, consumption of alcohol, `immodest` attire and `immoral` practices. Young people who followed him patrolled the street and public places to maintain and monitor a strict check on people, a formula that many similar zealots have also followed.

After enduring Savonarola for some time, Pope Alexander invited him to Rome but Savonarola refused to oblige him and continued to deliver his fiery sermons. Finally, the Pope excommunicated him and asked the political authorities of Florence to take action against him. Savonarola was arrested, put on trial and condemned to death. He was publicly burned at stake in the city square in Florence; bringing his short-lived religious utopia to an end.

Another attempt to implement religious ideas was made in Geneva by John Calvin (dl564) who broke away from the Catholic Church and established the Calvinist sect. He was invited by the authorities in Geneva to come and set up a religious utopia in the city based on his religious beliefs and teachings. After assuming political power, he was in a position to implement his religious agenda. As a first step, he exiled people who disagreed with him while those in favour of his beliefs were allowed to stay and observe his laws. In case of refusal, they would be excommunicated from the church, exiled from the city, imprisoned and even awarded the death penalty.

His legislation included prohibition on feasts, dancing, singing, pictures, statues, relics, church bells, organs, altar candles; `indecent or irreligious` songs, staging or attending theatrical plays; jewelry, lace, or `immodest` dress; extravagant entertainment; swearing, gambling, playing cards and hunting.

Traders and shopkeepers involved in adulteration or weighed less were severely punished. The Bible was made available everywhere. Laughing during religious services was regarded as a sin. Every citizen was required to thank God before eating, and those who deviated from these repressive laws were severely punished. During the six years of his rule, 150 heretics were burnt alive. Eventually, the citizens of Geneva became fed up of this religious totalitarianism and conflicts arose, Calvin was exiled and the old political, social and religious order of the city was restored.

[Quran2;256 There be no compulsion in religion. 5:48 If Allah wanted He could have made all of you a single nation. But He willed otherwise in order to test you in what He has given you; therefore try to excel one another in good deeds. Ultimately you all shall return to Allah; then He will show you the truth of those matters in which you dispute. 18:29 Say "The Truth is from your Lord": let him who will believe and let him who will reject (it): for the wrongdoers We have prepared a Fire. Quran;67:2 He Who created Death and Life that He may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the Exalted in Might Oft-Forgiving." 18:7 That which is on earth We have made but as a glittering show for the earth in order that We may test them as to which of them are best in conduct. (Added to original here)]

In the subcontinent, Syed Ahmad Shaheed and his zealous followers leda jihad movement, the Tariyah-iMuhhamadiyah, and founded an Islamic state in what is today known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He declared himself caliph and Amir-ul-momineen.

He introduced strict Islamic laws according to the Wahabi interpretation.

Those who protested or refused to abide by these severe strictures were severely punished. Eventually tiring of his fundamentalist religious policies, the Pathans rebelled against him and expelled his followers from Peshawar.

He and most of` his disciples were killed in the battle of Balakot in 1832.
Extremists are resented because they forbid people from enjoying even simple entertainment and merry-making while enforcing a strict code whereby people are required to remain fearful and remorseful; focusing purely on the life after death. According to them, people should devote their entire lifetime to the salvation of the soul. Instead of thinking about this world, they should regard the next world as their final and permanent abode. Unsurprisingly, most people aren’t willing to submit to this kind of rule, except under duress. Instead of thinking about this world, they should regard the next world as their final and permanent abode.
Unsurprisingly, most people aren`t willing to submit to this kind of rule, except under duress. 
By Mubarak Ali - Dawn.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Ahmad_Barelvi


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In a Nation of Muslims, Political Islam Is Struggling to Win Votes in indonesia

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Police officers in Jakarta at a roll call on Monday in preparation for this week’s vote. Polls show Islamic-based parties faring poorly.  
Indonesia — Last September, ultraconservative Islamic groups telegraphed their power, railing against an international beauty contest until the government ordered it to be staged entirely on the Hindu resort island of Bali. In 2012, radical Islamic groups known for their violent tactics and religious conservatives raised enough of a fuss that Lady Gaga canceled a concert here in the Indonesian capital. And hundreds of local governments in recent years have passed rules on morality and dress inspired by Shariah, or Islamic law, and instituted bans on alcohol.
But now, just ahead of Wednesday’s national legislative elections, polls and analysts suggest that Islamic-based parties are poised for what could be their worst showing since Indonesia’s democratic era began in 1999. At least two of the parties are polling so low that they might lose any presence in the House of Representatives.




“You’re looking at a substantial drop for them,” said Paul Rowland, a Jakarta-based political consultant. “They are not a significant factor.”
The slide in popularity, first noticed in the 2009 elections, appears to be worsening despite studies showing that Indonesians are becoming more pious.
Why political Islam has not taken deep root on a national level in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country — where about 90 percent of people are among the faithful — is a complicated question. The reasons lie in Indonesia’s history as a secular nation and in the Islamic parties’ own recent record.
When Indonesian leaders were drafting the nation’s first constitutionafter declaring independence from Dutch colonial rule in August 1945, Islamists demanded that the country be declared a Muslim state. But nationalists, indigenous ethnic groups and the country’s small but influential Christian and Hindu minorities fought back. Indonesia became a secular nation that recognized six official religions and had a state motto of “unity in diversity.”
A renewed effort to create a Muslim state failed again in 1955, even as Islamic-based parties did well in national elections. Indonesia did not have national legislative elections again until 1971, about six years after military-orchestrated anti-Communist purges led to the rise of Suharto, who replaced the country’s founding father, Sukarno, as president. After a strong showing by Islamic-based parties, Mr. Suharto ordered the merger of the four leading ones; the move ultimately weakened them because of their rivalries and different priorities.
But even after the collapse of Mr. Suharto’s military-backed government in 1998, nationalist parties dominated at the polls. No Islamic-oriented politician has been a serious candidate since direct presidential elections began in 2004. A poll released last week by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta found that the top five contenders in Indonesia’s next presidential election, to be held in July, each represented a secular nationalist party.
Still, until recent years, Islamic-based parties made impressive showings in legislative elections. During Indonesia’s first truly democratic elections in four decades, in 1999, the parties collectively won 36 percent of the popular vote. Bahtiar Effendy, dean of the department of social and political sciences at the State Islamic University in Jakarta, attributed the showing to a backlash against decades of secular, authoritarian rule.
“It was a new ballgame,” he said. “The ideological sentiment of Islam was revived again. The country was free from Suharto, and people could say what they wanted.”
Mr. Bahtiar said that same sentiment helped shape the 2004 national elections, which saw the swift rise of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party.
“They were seen as clean and not corrupt,” unlike the secular nationalist parties that had run the government during the previous five years, he said.
But as Indonesia approached its 2009 election season, voters were caught up in the re-election campaign of the popular President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. His secular nationalist Democratic Party had made tackling corruption a priority, denying the Islamic-based parties as strong a claim to the issue. At the same time, moves by Islamic-based parties to pass morality laws were overtaken by those of the secular nationalist parties, which backed an antipornography law in 2008 and whose provincial-level leaders passed a number of Shariah-inspired measures, particularly in conservative Muslim areas.
The collective showing of Islamic-based parties dropped to 28 percent in 2009, from 38 percent in 2004. And that slide in popularity appears to be continuing. Most of the country’s well-respected polls show the collective support for Islamic-based parties to be about 20 percent.
Analysts said that voters were generally more concerned with reducing poverty and improving education than with the religious symbolism of the Islamic-based parties.
“The Islamic parties have very little economic credibility,” said Gregory Fealy, an associate professor of Indonesian politics at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Hajjah Latifah, who was attending a local rally for the Democratic Party in Tangerang, just outside Jakarta, said she had already decided to vote for the party because of the programs it had established while in power, including programs regarding education, poverty and corruption.
Asked about the series of corruption scandals involving party members in the past three years, she said, “It’s not only the Democrats, but other parties including even Islamic parties, and this is well known to the public.”
Tobias Basuki, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that a major scandal involving sex and corruption last year, which engulfed the Prosperous Justice Party, had also soured voters toward political Islam.
Beyond that, a poll released March 31 by the Indonesia Network Elections Survey found that less than 1 percent of voters supported a political party because it represented their particular religious beliefs.
“Sixty years ago, people thought that politics and religious behavior were inseparable in Indonesia. It was a part of the Islamic identity to vote for an Islamic political party,” Mr. Fealy said. “Today you can express your piety but vote for anyone you want.”
Yenny Wahid, former secretary general of the Islamic-based National Awakening Party, said issues other than religion had taken precedence among voters. “Only as a last resort will people vote on religious grounds,” she said. “They first will pick based on a party’s stance on corruption, campaign promises and recognition factor of candidates.”
Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, the deputy chairman of the United Development Party, one of the Islamic-based parties that polls say could be voted out of Parliament for the first time since its creation in 1973, dismissed suggestions that his party was at risk of losing its seats. The party, which won 5 percent of the popular vote in 2009, is currently polling between 2 percent and 7 percent. (A party needs to win at least 3.5 percent of the vote to take any seats.)
Still, Mr. Lukman agreed that Islamic-based parties were struggling, though he said it was not because of their religious roots but because of the performance of their members.
Mr. Bahtiar said that Islamic-based parties remain relevant in Indonesia’s political system, noting that any or all of them could join a coalition to help one of the secular nationalist parties reach the threshold to nominate a presidential candidate.
“To whom they attach themselves remains to be seen,” Mr. Bahtiar said. “But they have the ability to do so, and they will.”

By Joe Cochranewww.nytimes.com

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