Re your
post #59.
Your anger
at the mullahs who lay the “trap” and your frustration with
Muslims who walk into it is understandable. I have a little
problem, though, in fully appreciating the disconnect that
you mention between Islam and Muslims. In effect, what you
are saying is, if I may put it metaphorically, that the
“recipe” is good but the “dish” is not. Ordinarily any
reasonable cook should be able to follow the instructions in
a given recipe and produce the desired dish. How come then,
one may ask, so many cooks, chefs and master chefs have not
been able to get this recipe right?
Is it that
the cooks are not using the right quality and quantities of
ingredients given in the recipe? Adding too much salt and
hot pepper? Or is it that all the cooks, chefs and master
chefs are consistently lousy? Or, perhaps, the ingredients
that were used in the original recipe and the conditions
under which the dish was first prepared are not available
any more ?
Look
forward to hearing from you. Meanwhile, allow me to share
with you a couple of lines of that most quoted and quotable
poet, Iqbal:
Utha main
madrassa-o-khanqah say gham-naak
Na zindagi,
na mohabbat, na ma’rifat, na nigaah
A rough
translation would be:
I walked
away with a heavy heart from the madrassah and the mosque
For there
was neither life, nor love, nor enlightenment nor vision
