PAK#301
SOLUTION FOR ASSIGNMENT NO. I (FALL 2014)
“Define Ideology: Does it, indeed, contribute in any nation’s emergence? Highlights Pakistan’s case (“Two Nation Theory”
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The phrase ideology “means science of ideas”. It includes those thoughts which any nation struggles to achieve with the intention of bring stability to its nationhood. The ideology grows amongst the frustrated group of society as a challenge to the prevailing social set up
An overview of the concept of ideology, which refers to a system of mutually dependent ideas, principles, traditions, gatherings, and even folklore that functions as a routine frame of reference. These routine ideas are taken for granted and used to interpret, understand, and guide values in a certain direction against those of other ideologies, affecting the patterns of belief and thus the behavior of a social group.
In so far as meaning and definition of Pakistan ideology is concerned, it essentially means that Pakistan should be a state, where the Muslims should have a prospect to live according to their belief and doctrine based on ideology of Islam.
So the creation of Pakistan was exceptional in a sense that it was based on the ideological commitments in the light of the religion Islam. Pakistani ideology is based on the ideals of Islamic structure and it was a result to the Hindu and British mistreatment of the Muslims. It was a revolution against the established system of India where the Hindu culture was powerfully forced on the Muslims of the sub-continent and their culture.
Pakistani ideology is based on the reality that the Muslims are a separate nation, comprising, their own customs, their own culture, their own religion, their own civilization and an absolutely diverse way of life from Hindus. Muslims cannot be combined with any other nation because their philosophy of life is based on the principles of Islam. So, Muslims of India found it enormously hard to spend their lives according to the principles of Islam in the United India. They were forced to demand a separate homeland to keep their religious with national identity.
Pakistan ideology was based on the ‘Two Nation Theory’, which meant that Muslims and Hindus are two separate nations and both nations are to a certain extent different from each other.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was the first Muslim leader who opened the initiative of ‘Two Nation Theory’; he was the pioneer of the ‘Two Nation Theory’. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan first used the word ‘Two Nations’ for Hindus and Muslims. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was certain by the hatred of Congress and Hindus towards the Muslims that both nations cannot live unite in the single country and the future of the Muslims will safe only if they have their own separate nation state.
The Hindus and Muslims, regardless of living together for centuries could not put out of their mind their own individual cultures and civilizations and keep a distance from each other. They could not integrate in each other’s way of life to be converted into one nation. The foremost reason for this dissimilarity between standard of living, cultures, and civilizations of Muslims and Hindus was the religion of Islam that cannot be amalgamated in any other system.
In Islam there is no one who could share the power of the Almighty God and to regard as any one equivalent to God is the biggest sin. While, in contrast Hinduism is based on the concept of multiple Gods. This is the main difference between Hindus and Muslims, how a nation who believes in oneness of God lives mutually with a nation who believes in multiplicity of God. There was an infinite gulf of ideas between Hindus and Muslims, which could not be bridged.
Ideology does play a crucial or fundamental role in any nation’s emerging. Pakistan is the best demonstration of it. History shows us another example in the form of Israel state. She also came into being on the Jewish ideology. There are other instances which confirm that ideology has the strength to be proved itself, whether it based on religious, economic, political, social or ethnical ideas. Such as the root cause of the major ideology of Communism/Marxism (USSR/Russia nowadays) was economic one. And at the present the ideology of Capitalism (USA) is ruling over the world. Ideology is power enough that it can transform any common group of people in to the nation. It is the former that can lead or show the way to the latter to its destination. For the fulfillment of its goals nation has to be focused on its ideology.
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