نظام ِفکر پہلے یا نظام ِاقدار پہلے
کیا کوئی نظام فکر نظام اقدار کے بغیر وجود میں آ سکتا ہے؟
اقدار پہلے ہیں، نظام بعد میں۔
یہ معاملہ بھی خود ایک قدر کی حیثیت رکھتا ہے۔
مثلاً شائستگی کو ملحوظ رکھنا پہلے ہے، سچائی کا اظہار بعد میں۔
لہٰذا اقدار مقدم ہیں، نظام متاخر۔
سو غور کیجیے آپ کا نظامِ فکر یا جس نظامِ فکر پر آپ یقین رکھتے ہیں، وہ اس ترتیب پر پورا اترتا ہے یا نہیں۔…
Stray reflections on the 68th Independence Day
Note: This article was completed on August 4, 2014. Since then little has changed; this piece is still relevant on this 68th Independence Day.
… Stray reflections on the 67th Independence Day
For the sane in Pakistan the fight is about protecting the values, the humanity has developed in the course of thousands of years, from the political and religio-political witchcraft, which it is intent upon destroying thoughtlessly. How the time-tested values were trashed (and are being trampled even this moment) when Pakistan came into being is a saga of ruthless fights between the politicians continuing to this very day, the August 14.
The greatest deceptive lessons the politicians taught the citizens derive their justification from the misconception that a state may be based on this or that faith, or ideology. That also hints at the infatuation that a theocratic state is a