I will start this column with Hazrat Abu Bakar’s famous quote taken from his first speech as successor to the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
“O men! Here I have been assigned the job of being a ruler over you while I am not the best among you. If I do well in my job, help me. If I do wrong redress me. Truthfulness is fidelity. And to lie is treason. The weak ones shall be strong in my eyes until I restore to them their lost rights. And the strong ones shall be weak in my eyes until I have restored the rights of the weak from them”.
The need for this quote has arisen because of Sardar Ayaz Sadiq’s statement that Imran Khan by protesting against him for the injustice he (Ayaz Sadiq) has done to the high office of Speakership, has dishonoured the sanctity of the House.
A House whose ‘head’ commits such a blatant act of outrageous dishonesty, as has been committed in the case of rejection of one reference and acceptance of the other on the basis of personal loyalty and personal animosity does not deserve any respect. Yet by staging a collective walkout in protest against Sardar Ayaz Sadiq’s dishonest act, the Opposition Parties have restored some sanctity to the House they are part of.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq is not higher than (God forgive me) Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddque. And Pakistan’s manmade constitution is not higher (God forgive me) than the Constitution given to mankind by Allah through His last Messenger and implemented by the rightly guided successors to the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
This joke that our rulers are fond of flaunting as ‘constitution’ should end now.
Hazrat Abu Bakar said: “Redress me if I am wrong.”
Which judge, speaker or senator can make a pretense to being higher than the first Caliph of Islam?
This attempt to give Divine sanctity to fallible mortals is a blasphemy of its own kind. As for Sardar Ayaz Sadiq’s boast that he has beaten (rather thrashed) Imran Khan thrice, and also his claim that IK has a grudge against him because of it, let me dare to ask the disputed speaker, whether he himself doesn’t harbour obscene jealously against his former friend and colleague because of the heights of glory he (IK) has risen to.
Hence this act of vendetta. I don’t believe Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has disgraced himself just to do a favour to his master.
His ‘victories’ against Imran Khan bring to my mind an incident the famous car-maker Iacocca wrote about in his autobiography.
“I had lost election for the monitorship of the class to a rival by one vote. As I was walking through the corridor, a senior well-wisher came to me and said: Your mathematics is weak Iacocca. How many students are in your class? —I replied 39. He said: How many votes did you get? I replied 20. He said: How did your rival manage to get 21? Only because he got two non-existent votes.”
