Harm Caused by Wrong Thinking

THE ART OFCLEAR THINKING of their lack of awareness of the age, were spearheading contrarian movements in the form of ‘Pakistanisation.’ These movements were synonymous with banging their heads against the massive boulder of the age, as it were. That is why these movements met with such negative outcomes as were fated for them from day one. The changes that accompanied the modern age greatly increased the importance of mutual interaction between people from different religious backgrounds and communities. But Muslim leaders, with extreme foolishness, were spearheading their movements in complete opposition to this. Historical experience has conclusively proven that challenge and competition are indispensable means of progress. But these Muslim leaders, fired with misplaced zeal, were busy trying to construct a fanciful world for Muslims where they would supposedly face no challenges, nor any competition. From the immense opportunities for progress that modern developments had made available, it had clearly come to be seen that only through large-scale joint efforts among people from different religious and other backgrounds could big achievements be possible. But these Muslim leaders had come to imagine that it was their political task to construct imaginary political islands, as it were, for Muslims, where they would be devoid of the impact of inter-community interaction and cooperation. Modern communications have rendered the concept of geographical separation of