Let me correct Mohsin Naqvi
Weāre not cockroaches. Weāre Muslims. And weāre not asking you to fix your democracy ā we donāt want your system reformed, we want it replaced. Al-hukmu illa lillah ā the judgment is for Allah alone (Surah Al-Anāam 6:57). Thatās not a reform demand. Thatās a different destination entirely.
And hereās why: your democracy tells me one vote is one vote ā the scholarās and the illiterateās, the competent and the corrupt, all equal, all deciding the fate of 25 crore Muslims. Allah already answered that. āSay, are those who know equal to those who do not know?ā (Surah Az-Zumar 39:9). They are not. A system that canāt tell the difference isnāt neutral ā itās broken by design.
So what do we actually want instead?
Politically ā sovereignty that doesnāt sit with parliament or popularity, but with Allahās law, executed through shura, consultation among those qualified to hold it (Ash-Shura 42:38), accountable to Sharia, not to whoever spent the most on a campaign.
Economically ā an end to riba. No interest-based debt economy built to keep the poor poor and the rich richer (Al-Baqarah 2:275, 2:278ā279). Wealth that circulates instead of piling up in a few hands ā āso that it does not remain a perpetual distribution among only the rich among youā (Al-Hashr 59:7). Zakat as a structural pillar, not an afterthought.
Foreign policy ā one Ummah, not fifty flags competing for a UN seat. Alliances built on faith and justice, not on whoeverās cutting the biggest check. Solidarity with oppressed Muslims wherever they are, not silence bought with aid packages.
Accountability ā Caliph Umar (RA) stood before the Ummah and said āif you see any crookedness in me, straighten it,ā and a common man told him to his face heād have straightened him with his sword if heād strayed. Thatās accountability ā a ruler answerable to the people and to Allah, not the other way around. Compare that to PECA charges for a tweet and enforced disappearances for anyone labeled āanti-state.ā Thatās not law and order. Thatās a system that criminalizes questions because it canāt survive being asked any.
Thatās not utopian. Thatās the system weāre asking for. Not your reform. Replacement.
You want to know what actually unites us? Not your jobs. Not your system. Watching our own ā the JAAC protestors in Kashmir, Muslims, killed by the same forces that swear to protect them. You donāt get to lecture us about unity while burying the people who dared to demand their rights.
So hereās where we start:
We stop letting our own brothers get killed and calling it law and order.
We remember the Ummah is one body ā āif one limb suffers, the whole body responds with fever and sleeplessnessā (Sahih Muslim).
We revive an identity that means something ā not a flag, not a border, not a passport.
And we leave Asabiyyah behind ā the Prophet ļ·ŗ called tribal loyalty a rotten thing, ādaāuha fa innaha muntinahā (Sahih al-Bukhari).
If Mohsin Naqvi and every leader like him actually wanted this āregimeā to survive, theyād stop lecturing us on national sovereignty and start teaching us who we are. Not Pakistani first. Not Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun, Baloch first. Muslim first ā āthe believers are but brothersā (Al-Hujurat 49:10), one Ummah before any flag existed to divide it. You donāt protect a nation by drilling loyalty to its borders into people Allah already gave a bigger identity to. You lose them the moment they remember it.
Democratic leaders can keep asking what we want. Weāve told you. Allah ka Nizaam.
People will do all they can to tarnish your image, smear your personality etc but take heart because no matter what they do they canāt take away your good deeds. Let them say what they want. The Almighty knows the truth & those who know you better wonāt fall for such cheap shots.
Donāt be afraid to shed tears. Cry all you want to the Almighty. Itās a quality of the righteous. Tears are prayers too. They travel to Him when we are so overcome with emotion that we canāt find the right words to say. Heās the Best Listener.