The modern constitutional state cannot settle theological debates. It does not have the mandate or the authority to do so because it is not God
Source/Credit: Daily Times
By Yasser Latif Hamdani | January 22, 2018
Religion has always been a factor in South Asian politics no matter which country you are in. Our collective problem has been the angle of vision, which places community interests and rights over individual interests and rights.
Even our historical debates have been around definitions of the collective community. In the heyday of Indian Nationalism and the independence movement, all major nationalists including Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Azad and others spoke of Hindu-Muslim Unity in their own way. Even the composite Indian Nationalism, against which Muslim Nationalism was a rebellion, was premised on the idea of a federation of communities. Thus it was the community and not the individual whose assent was sought. This was because religion is the one thing that is omnipresent no matter where you go in the subcontinent.
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