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TRUTH IS TEXTUAL NOT NUMERICAL

 
(Editorial, Khilafah Magazine, issue 8, May 1998)

Secular politics has a problem when it comes to establishing the rights of people in lands. It cannot see beyond numbers. This was seen clearly in the recent furore over the current census in Pakistan. This extensive piece of work is due for publication in June/July 1998, although it may be delayed. Yet, secular politicians have already challenged its legitimacy, through their fear about the numbers it might throw up.

In the words of a Pakistani Government official, "We will wait for the right moment which may come after US President Bill Clinton’s visit to Pakistan later this year, to disclose the sensitive demographic data which is bound to invite sharp reaction from the losers in the census game." Indeed, reaction was forth-coming, though whether it was sharp was questionable. The Mutahida Qawmi Movement (MQM) has stated that it will not accept the results of the census unless it shows figures that are favourable for the Mohajir in Sind province. Groups representing the Pashtoons and Balochis have raised similar objections. Albeit this is a very strange way of evaluating whether a census is accurate or not, this reveals much about the mindset of secular politicians. MQM and others are acutely aware that numbers translate into political clout in secular government.

Around the world secular politicians use numbers to back their claims. The Jews of Israel are well practised at playing the numbers game. Their claim to a homeland involved some rather adept census fixing. This involved jumping up the number of Jews through revision of Jewish law to accommodate Ethiopian and Russian Jews. It also involved ‘persuading’ Jews to immigrate to Israel, by Israeli-sponsored attacks on Jews in Europe. Lastly it involved harassing Palestinians into leaving to prevent their numbers embarrassing their claim to Israel. Secular number-obsessed politics rewarded their underhand tactics with the right to a state.

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In April, US Special Envoy, Bill Richardson’s visit to the Indian Subcontinent prompted many Kashmiri nationalists to jump onto this bandwagon. They piped in earnest about the UN’s promised plebiscite. They hope that this would reveal the numbers necessary to add weight to their claim for an independent Kashmir. In fact many Muslims, throughout the Islamic Lands are infected with this disease.

This obsession with numbers, when painting on political canvases, has no parallel in Islam. The rights, claims and privileges of people are not decided by numbers. So, in a region where 2% of the population were Jews their rights would not be lessened or increased when compared to a region where their numbers comprised 98% of the populus. Similarly, the fact that Palestine and Kashmir are Islamic Lands is not decided by the relative number of Muslims, Jews or Hindus who live there.

That is because in Islam what is right and wrong is not decided by number. So, for example, if a thousand mujtahidoon (scholars) holding an opinion based on weak interpretations, were faced with a single scholar who had a stronger interpretation, the single scholar’s opinion would be adopted. That is because the truth is not settled through weight of numbers but through the strength of ideological argument. So where and how Muslims, Jews and Hindus can, and cannot, live is decided textually not numerically. The truth is out there, but to find it does not require a calculator.

 

 

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