Quite suddenly the winds blowing in the country seem to be conveying the message—or the impression, that all roads happen to be leading to a single destination—the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Whether you enter from the North or the South—from the East or the West, your journey happens to end at one grand structure which is flanked on one side by the National Parliament and on the other, by the Secretariat of the man who in normal circumstances, and in any normal country would be running the affairs of the nation. The Prime Minister.
The grand structure doesn’t fail to catch your attention because of the symbolic presence on its front of a huge scale the two pans of which are suspended in an immaculately untilting straight line. This is the scale of ‘Justice’ — the magical word which in terms of value, respect, sanctity and importance in men’s life and his civilization stands next only to Truth.
If an unending quest for Truth has been the primary obsession of man ever since his mind was exposed to the power of Reasoning as well as Revelation, an undying struggle to bring Justice to the societies he formed has been his noble destiny. More often that not, both Truth and Justice have eluded him Not meaning thereby that Truth has never ruled supreme, or that Justice has never triumphed.
The most glorious moment in human history when not only Truth was ruling supreme, and Justice was within every hand’s reach, was the one when the Last Prophet of God (PBUH) proclaimed from the seat of his power—the Mosque of Madina:
“In the eyes of Allah all men are equal. If any one has supremacy over the other, it is not on the basis of his position, race, blood, colour or tribe—but on the strength of his deeds.”
Whether or not this scale of Justice hoisted on the front wall of the SCP building, is worthy of bringing alive the soul-soothing and mind-enriching memories of the words of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)—the truth remains that unless this eye-catching structure lives up to all the expectations invested in it, Pakistan’s future is unlikely not to take a blind dive into the bottomless waters of chaos.
The issues that are likely to be decided within the walls of this supreme structure happen to be of quintessential nature and far-reaching consequences.
It is not an overstatement to say that the honorable Justices manning the Powerhouse of Justice behind these walls may be presiding over the “Shaping of Pakistan’s Destiny.” They may be sitting in judgment over matters that constitute the very essence of our ‘National Being’.
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