ALL SECULAR PAKISTANIS NEED TO UNITE 

Family of the Heart - DIALOGUE & DISCUSSIONS 

Sense, Nonsense and Multi-sense 

The “Secularism” of Dr. Khalid Sohail has been very cutely hijacked by some FOTH Islamic scholars. The seed of this adventure has been already planted by Khalid himself when he defined secularism, ”Freedom of Religion and Freedom from Religion”. It is a multi-sense statement which leaves the ground to talk of religion only and not of secularism. The Muslim scholars know very well how to use and abuse these multi-sense statements because the Holy Book is full of them. These are called Allegorical A^yAt. These may have many interpretations but the true message is only known to Allah [3:7].  

All monotheist religions are based on an (established) FAITH that there is one and unique God. In Islam to accept the prophet Muhammad as the Messenger of God is part of the established faith. The “Orthodoxy” is adhering to the traditional or accepted and established faith, Thus by definition, all monotheist religions are based on orthodoxy. On the other hand the Hinduism is heterodoxy. The statement that “there is no Orthodoxy in Islam” is nonsense. 

Any debate or argument based on nonsense and multi-sense will not give any sense.  

In religion the multi-sense statements enhance the faith of the faithful and in poetry nonsense gives more beauty to a verse. 

zindagy meyN tw sabhy peyAr kiyA kaeteY hayN

mayN tw mar kar bhy meyry jAn tujheY j*AhWN gA   (j*=ch, W=oo

I will beg your excuse for any error in this verse. The error is mine. What a beautiful verse; only because the dead lover is still loving!! 

The multi-sense and nonsense statements are necessary and useful in religion, poetry and literature but not in debate and argument. 

Lastly, I do not understand why this discussion over Islam and Democracy has been stated. This has been already discussed, in long and large, three years ago under the title of “Why has democracy not taken root in most Muslim countries?” 

Regards. 

Ahsan (Strasbourg

ahsan@noos.fr 

March11, 2009 

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