Khatray Mein Islam Naheen!

Khatra Hey Zardaaron ko
girti hoi diwaaron ko
sadiyon key bimaaron ko
Khatrey mein islam nahin

saari zamin ko gherey hoyay hein aakhir chand gharanay kion
naam nabi ka leney walay ulfat se begaanay kyon

Khatra hey khoon khwaaron ko
rang barangi kaaro ko
amreeca key piyaron ko
khatray mein isam nahin

Aaj hmaray na'ron se larza hey bapa aiwaanon mein 
bik na sakein gey hasrat-o-arman oonchi saji dokaanon mein 

Khatra hey bat maaron ko 
maghrib key bazaaron ko 
choron ko makkaron ko 
khatray mein islam nahin 

amn ka percham ley key utho her insan se piyar kar 
apna tau manshoor hey jalib saaray jahaan se piyar karo 

khatra hey darbaaron ko 
shaahon key ghamkhwaaron o 
nawwaabon, ghidaaron k 
khatray mein islam nahin 

Habeeb Jalib started screaming it around three decades ago and the situation still seems the same. Those who have been against the creation of this fateful country, claimed its sole ownership (read proprietorship) soon after it came into being. Surfing through the pages of old issues of Daily Dawn a news item caught my attention lately. It showed a women's rally in Lahore asking for Shariah. Well asking for Shariah Law is not something unusual these days, but the news item was dated January 1948. Yes, that early! 

And after-wards, these obscurantists kept on not only growing like mushrooms, but also multiplied their influence on state machinery and consolidated themselves among the people. Now everything that questions status quo, is termed either "non-islamic" or "unpatriotic". And its couple of clerics and few hawkish media men who give you the certificate of being Islamic and patriotic. In following blindly what they're saying, we often forget that that its not Islam that is at stake, it is vested interest of some individuals / groups that is!