To paraphrase Marx: when you can’t feed the masses, try opium.

Promises of Riyasat-i-Madina have also brought nothing - except promises followed by still more promises. Countless power-hungry politicians in history have exploited religion, promising people the moon but delivering exactly nothing. Two worlds that rightfully should be kept apart are conflated here. Even if Khan is right here, using a religious occasion for a political purpose is wrong. The ongoing Khan-Bajwa tiff on the ISI DG’s successor suggests some implicit messaging here: I’m the boss and generals better obey me. Smuggled in between was a reference to Caliph Hazrat Umar as having (twice) sacked his valiant general, Khalid bin Waleed, although the general never lost a war. After pillorying his predecessor and decrying electoral fraud, he made a pitch for electronic voting machines. At first he spoke passionately like all religious preachers do (his laudations of Winston Churchill and British courts were hard to fathom) but quickly switched to politics. Khan’s RAA speech suggested exactly this. But didn’t we learn about Musawaat-i-Muhammadi in our school days and of the Prophet’s sense of justice? RAA’s purpose is plainly political, not religious.Īlso read: ‘Good inflation bad inflation’ is Imran Khan’s new lesson in economics as prices soar As for researching the Prophet’s life: let’s have more. For the news media, multiple monitoring organisations already exist. What a damp squib! No school textbook in Pakistan - even science ones - is exempt from rigorous religious censorship. President Alvi has now signed the required ordinance.

Khan’s answer: once he appoints a religious scholar as head (the search has already begun) the RAA will monitor school curricula, check social media content, ferret out blasphemers, and organise research in universities for spreading the true message of Islam. But what can an ‘authority’ named after the Prophet do? What actions can ensure that the Prophet’s message of equality lives in every Muslim’s heart? End Islamophobia in the West? Everyone understands why gas and electricity authorities, or the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), exist. How RAA will achieve its mission is unclear. This organisation, he said, would bring the goal closer. At a preparatory meeting ahead of the Prophet’s birthday, Khan announced the creation of the Rehmatul-lil-Alameen Authority (RAA) and appointed himself its patron-in-chief. Many Pakistanis want to believe him and in a Riyasat-i-Madina. Prime Minister Imran Khan says he wants a welfare state like that of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in the seventh century.

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