Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s Last Sigh!
By
Fahad Hashmi, New Age Islam
September 15, 2013
May
I tell the truth O Brahmin! if it does not displease you
The
idols of your temple have become anachronistic
You
have learnt grudge with your own people from the idols
God
also has taught fighting to Muslim preachers
Becoming
tired, I finally abandoned the temple and the harem
I
abandoned the preacher’s sermons as well as your stories
(Allama
Iqbal’s New Temple)
The dissection of
state and church by the
scalpel of human ingenuity has been one of the most important landmarks
of
human history. However, there has also been relentless endeavour for the
reversal of this phenomenon by politico-religious parties. Such parties
often
enter political arena under the guise of a secular name. In 2011,
Jamaat-e-Islami of India called Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) came up with
its political party titled Welfare Party of India (WPI). Of late, the
Parliamentary Board of WPI has declared that it would contest
parliamentary
election of 2014 in ten Indian States. This has sent a ripple of
apprehension
as well as excitement across the community as participation in elections
by JIH
was taboo until very recently. There are some few questions making the
round in
the community’s grapevine. How come it is going to embrace Taghoot
(Muslim
version of Antichrist) all of a sudden? By Jamaat’s definition of this
term,
parliament is the throne of Taghoot, and constitution is the binary
opposite of
the Quran. How is it the party as it claims to be, with a difference
now? Could
this move be read as the last nail in JIH’s coffin?
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