LAHORE, Aug 6: Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday emphasized the need for honest leadership in every field to solve problems of the country.
The seminar was organized by the Hamdard Thinkers Forum at the Hamdard Centre here to discuss Hakim Said’s saying that wisdom was necessary to maintain independence. Punjab University’s former vice-chancellor Dr Rafiq Ahmad presided.
Justice Allah Nawaz (retired), who was the chief guest, said that wisdom and intelligence were two different faculties in men and women.
A balanced use of these faculties was necessary to make one’s individual, social and collective life happy. If the balance was maintained at the national level by politicians and statesmen the independence they achieved for their nations would become a virtue. Otherwise, the same independence could become a vice and anarchic.
He said that there could be no greater loss to any nation than the one caused by the unwise intellectuals who had gone astray. He said that Hakim Said was right when he said that independence had certain conditions which must be fulfilled to preserve it and that were the proper use of both wisdom and intelligence.
Justice Nawaz said the Quaid-i-Azam had accepted the Cabinet Mission’s zonal scheme for India because he was convinced that any transfer of power under the 1935 Act with a strong centre would never be in the interest of the Muslim population and Hindus would be permanent rulers.
The Cabinet Mission Plan had provided strong zones of Muslim population. It was an act of the Quaid’s wisdom. With the refusal of the Congress to accept the plan the destiny of Pakistan had become nearer and its establishment certain.
Honesty, wisdom and intelligence were three essential ingredients of one’s success and necessary for maintaining the independence of nations.
Maj-Gen M.H. Ansari (retired) said that the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) had detailed reference to the virtues of wisdom and intelligence. The Holy Quran discusses them as Nafas-i-Ammara and Nafas-i-Lawwama.
Any wrong use of both the faculties of wisdom and intelligence was the act of ammara and realization and repentance of the wrong committed by one was the act of lawwama.
He said that Allah had given a complete code of life in the Holy Quran, which was in fact a sort of textbook for its followers. Along with the text, Allah had sent the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) as the best guide for the implementation of the code.
Mr Ansari said that if the divine guidelines were followed, all problems of the mankind would be solved.
Dr M.A. Soofi said that mere wisdom and intelligence were not sufficient to maintain independence of a nation. What was more important was the intention how both these faculties could be used for the good or bad of the nation.
He lamented that the younger generation was coming under the influence of Hindu culture, thanks to the explosion of the same through Indian electronic media.
Engineer M.S. Khan said that the purposes for which Pakistan was achieved i.e. the implementation of the teachings of the Holy Quran and Sunnah.
He recalled that in a short period of 10 years of life at Madina, the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) had to perform as many as 84 acts of jihad to defend the independence of his Islamic state from the onslaught of the non-believers.
Other speakers included Dr Miskeen Hijazi, Prof Abdul Jabbar Shakir, Tanvir Abbas Tabish, Prof Khalida Jameel and Samar Jameel Khan.