Make Arabic Official Language of Pakistan - True Muslim Language

Pakistan is a Muslim state and yet it divides her from other Muslim world. Pakistan is the only Muslim country that uses Hindustani language Urdu as their official which has caused major difficulties for Pakistan to come close to other Arabic states. There was a vision behind Pakistan's creation and it was Islam and Muslims, where they can practice their Islam in peace. Arabic is the language of Islam. The Qur’an is in Arabic. The Prophet’s hadith are in Arabic. The highest form of Islamic culture in Spain was in Arabic.

When the proposal of making Arabic Pakistan's National Language was put forward, Aga Khan said: "Your children must learn Arabic to a certain extent always. The same is true of your West whether Sindh, Baluchistan or the North. From the practical and worldly point of view, Arabic will give you, as a national language, immediate contact not only with the 40 million Arabic-speaking people of independent nations on your West, but the other 60 million more or less Arabic-speaking people who are not independent but who exist in Africa. Right up to the Atlantic, not only in North but as far South as Nigeria and the Gold Coast, Arabic is known to the upper classes of the population. In all the Sudans, on the Nile or under French rule, Arabic is the language right up to the borders of Portuguese West Africa. In East Africa, not only in Zanzibar but amongst the Muslim population of even countries as far apart as Madagascar and Portuguese East Africa, Arabic is known. If we turn to the Far East, Arabic has prospered throughout the region inhabited by 80 million Muslims of Indonesia, Malaya and Philippines. In Ceylon, Muslim children of the well-to-do classes get some knowledge of Arabic.

Is it not right and proper that this powerful Muslim State of Pakistan, with its central geographical position, its bridges between the nearly 100 million Muslims of the East and 100 million Muslims of the West - its position of the East from Philippines and the Great State of Indonesia and Malaya and Burma and then westward with the hundred millions in Africa, right up to the Atlantic, should make Arabic its national language and not isolate itself from all its neighbors and from the world of Islam with a language that was associated with the period of downfall of Muslim States.

And finally, whi1e Arabic, as a universal language of the Muslim world will unite, Urdu will divide and isolate. Gentlemen, brothers in Islam, people of Pakistan, people of every Province, I appeal to you, before you take the final and what I unfortunately must say, I consider, the fatal jump down the precipice, please discuss and let all and every one contribute their views. Take time and think over it. Once more I appeal for Islamic charity from those whom I may have offended and I appeal to all others to look to the facts in the face both historically and as they exist at present. I pray that the people of this country may be guided by Divine Wisdom before they decide.”"

I agree with Aga Khan , all Mmuslim countries should have Arabic as national language. Having been the only country using a non Muslim language has only divided and isolated us from our other Muslim brothers. If today, Aga Khan's proposal of making Arabic was implemented Pakistan would have been a successful developed country walking shoulder by shoulder with the fastest growing Middle East.