Are All Religions Alike? By Parwez - Resurgent Islam

,Are All Religions Alike?
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mode of argumentation artd way of expression. The
Pakistan Movement succeeded and Pakistan, on the fine
morning of 141h ot; August 1947, emerged as a new
independent state on the map of the world, Its specific
purpose was to establish God-given System of life
(demarcated in the Qur'an) as a Law, Consequently,
excepting the circle of the leaders of Congress, (Maulana)
Azad turned out to be no more an influential figure in the
Indo-Pak Subcontinent
Since some time, it has been observed that the followers of
(Maulana) Abul Kalam Azad are projecting, in a queer
manner, the various aspects of his writings, particularly his
teachings, beliefs, and his ideas of the two-nation theory,
The purpose of their writing is to prove that the so-called
wrong ideas he propagated, on being a disciple of Gandhi,
in the last days of his life, were not wrong in the real sense.
According to them these ideas looked to be wrong because
these were presented in a wrong way.
We thought it necessary that "these diabolical efforts of
theirs be remedied". And "this stark fact be firmly built in
the minds of our young rising generation that there were
persons, who had recently written the exegesis of the
Qur'lIn and the people were still reminiscent of their
writings. The Hindu, in the words of Naseem Hijazi, (a
renowned Pakistani Novelist), selected those persons to
implement their schemes." And hence they included
(Maulana)'Abul Kalam Azad in this list.
In thiS connection, we are reproducing a paper of G. A.
Parwez (R. A.) that was written in August 1941. Its title is
"Are All Religions Alike?"
(Tolu-e-Islall1 Magazine, Lahore, December, 1987)