Strength lies in unity to solve problems

Again we seem to have come to an interesting pass: a college student of sociology and political science says our social and economic problems are as many as there’re individuals, families and groups of people called parties.
Similarly, a serious university student says we forget that 98 per cent of population — middle, lower middle and poor — want unadulterated food for survival, shelter for safety from any calamity, and clothing to cover their bodies in any community.
Both are right.
We’ve another problem, and that’s national: we lack faith, we lack unity, and we lack discipline. Promising children whose grandparents sacrificed their lives and whatever property they’d at the time of partition say they don’t like such a system in which quantity outweighs quality. They say they want a true democracy without any pressure from outside and inside.
There’s yet another problem: if anybody tells lies as many times as he needs in his interest, he is taken as true; but if somebody always speaks the truth he is regarded as liar. So, we’ve come to such a pass that we can say now: It is falsehood vs truth; bad vs good; and right vs righteous.
Who should win? An intelligent schoolchild says: “The righteous, because God is always on the side the righteous.” The child is correct. But what the righteous needs to win is unity that eventually means social, economic and political unity.
But there’s again another problem: We’ve no selfless, dedicated leadership like the one provided by Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah respected as father of the nation. “Are we really a nation — a united nation?” cries the young child.
Jinnah borrowed the idea of unity from one God, one Prophet and one Book. He called upon the people not to forget the motto: “Faith, unity and discipline — faith in God, in ourselves and in our destiny.” Islam advocates honesty, tolerance, law and order, peace, prosperity and socio-economic justice, harmony and broadmindedness.
The young child wants severe punishment to encroachers, price raisers, hoarders, profiteers, kidnappers, rapists, extortionists, murderers and whoever breaks law and rules.
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