Is Pakistan Really A Muslim Country? What does it mean to be a Muslim Country?

We all know that Pakistan is a Muslim country, also officially stated on its passport as ‘The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’. But is it really? What is a Muslim country and what does it really mean to be a Muslim country?

One must ask, is it the religious rights of individual people, who are given freedom by the country’s constitution to let them practice their basic religious rituals like prayers, fasting, zakat (charity), eid festival, and other basic principles which are permitted for them to practice? Or is it that the majority of the citizen and those who reside in the country, are Muslims?

The answer is No, because prayers, fasting, zakat, eid festivals, even the call for prayers and other individual Islamic practices are all happening all over the world and in every Non-Muslim country. It is happening in the USA, India, Europe, and many other non-Islamic countries where Muslims are allowed to perform their individual Islamic practices freely. The non-Muslims will even celebrate eid festivals with us and vice versa. Speaking about the majority, non-Muslim countries like India have a larger population of Muslim citizens than Pakistan itself. So what is the difference?

The main difference, are the laws, the government, the constitution, legislation, the unity, the way things are being governed, that too according to what GOD has revealed — from The Qur’an, where GOD says: “DO NOT Fear people but FEAR ME, DO NOT exchange my verses for a miserable gain and WHOEVER does NOT judge by what Allah has revealed, then they are disbelievers”-[Qur’an 5:44].

So with this being said, we should ask ourselves, who are the ones making laws of any Islamic country, and on what basis? If we really are Muslims, then shouldn’t we be making the country’s constitutional legislation based on the Holy Books? or shouldn’t our Holy Book itself be the constitution and the supreme law of the whole country, which should be followed by every Muslim?

Most of our Muslim leaders go abroad and study law courses in universities like Oxford or Harvard and come back here(to Pakistan) with a Western or European soo called democratic mind-set and try to forcefully apply that system over the Muslims. But in reality, it doesn’t work that way and it never had worked. It has been making us follow one type of ‘outsider’ system that gives Man a supreme authority over humankind and makes Man seem more powerful than GOD, all in the name of an illusionary democracy that seduces the secular liberals, giving them wet dreams of freedom.

We can understand that non-Muslim countries like the USA, don't want the Islamic Shariah law system in their constitution, and they perfectly have a right to reject and object where we agree with them. But we cannot understand why Muslim countries themselves don't want to apply the Islamic Shariah law system in their own country which is soo called the ‘Islamic Republic’, but they rather happily apply the Western or European model of governance.

This is exactly the same with Pakistan. I somewhat doubt that whether Pakistan is really a Muslim country or not because there are certain religious institutions and Government bodies in Pakistan that have no real authority or power. The power mainly belongs to the Parliament. Pakistan has soo called Islamic government legislative bodies like:

There are even disputes whether Pakistan is a secular state or not and there are certain Pakistani’s of all ages who are working hard to make this a secular state and even to work towards westernizing the nation. In other words, keep religion limited to your homes and to your mosques and do not bring it to the state affairs.

So in this case, there will be no difference between India and Pakistan because India is also a secular nation according to their forty-second amendment of the constitution, where they have separated religion from the state. So why did we(Pakistan) also separate ourselves from India in the first place anyways if we really are a secular state? And if we really are a Muslim country, then why are the Islamic legislative bodies almost powerless and the Islamic shariah laws are not being implemented? We have to understand and ask such questions and just give it a thought.