The re-induction of verses from noble Qur’an about Jihad by the coalition government in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province, which borders Afghanistan, has invited praise and ire from religious and secular circles respectively.
“All the coalition partners have unanimously approved the re-induction of verses about Jihad in the curriculum as their omission had no other aim except to appease the foreign masters,” Hashmatullah Khan, a provincial minister representing Jamat-e-Islami, one of the country’s two mainstream religious parties
“We will not design our curriculum on the directives or guidelines of foreign countries and donors,” Hashmatullah, whose party had earlier been allotted the education ministry, added.
Qur’an Verses about Jihad has had been omitted from the curriculum of Islamic learning by the left-wing Awami National Party (ANP) that ruled the province from 2008 to May 2013.
The move by ANP to omit the verses has been criticized as applying a “typical” west interpretation of verses as encouraging youth to join militant groups.
After the ANP conceded a heavy defeat in May 2013 elections, the coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province, led by cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), took the decision to re-induct the verses in school curriculum.
The decision has been widely appreciated among religious circles which threw its weight behind the PTI-led government.
“This decision should not be seen as victory of Islamists and defeat of seculars,” Mufti Mohammad Naeem, chancellor of the International Binoria University Karachi, told OnIslam.net.
“These verses were omitted for no educational reasons but just on the pretext that their presence in the syllabus did not portray a soft image of Pakistan in the world, which was totally wrong,” Mufti Naeem observed.
Maulana Amir Mansuri, a Karachi-based religious scholar agrees.
“Jihad will continue till the day of judgment according to noble Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon Him). Therefore, omission of verses about Jihad will never work,” Mansuri said.
“Every single verse from noble Qur’an is equally important. Therefore, replacing a verse about Jihad by a verse about compassion, honesty, bravery or simplicity does not cause any harm. But, if the intention behind the motive is to ease the West’s pressure, that means we accept their misinterpretation about Jihad,” he opined.
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