❖ Liberal Allegations: A Double Standard Against Religious Scholars ❖
✿ The Accusation Against Molvis
Liberal and secular voices often accuse molvis (religious scholars) of exploiting religion for personal gain, claiming their entire activity revolves around “halwa-manday” (economic benefits). They argue that molvis entangle the public in sectarian disputes and run a “religious enterprise” based on fatwa-giving for material benefit.
✦ Questioning the Nature of Scientific Knowledge
These same critics uphold science as the pinnacle of true knowledge, allegedly driven by altruism and human welfare. But a closer examination reveals that modern scientific institutions are just as commercialized.
Scientific research today is often guided by marketability:
➤ What can be sold is developed,
➤ What brings personal or institutional profit is pursued.
✿ Examples of Material Interests in Science
➤ In medical science, pharmaceutical corporations and hospitals routinely exploit public health for profit.
➤ In engineering, widespread corruption and financial games are common.
➤ Weapons industries pressure governments to purchase deadly arms for private gain.
➤ In social sciences and NGOs, research is often manipulated to satisfy donors or political agendas.
✦ The Irony: Scientific Systems Built on ‘Halwa-Manday’
Those who sneer at molvis as “halwa-eaters” fail to see that their own systems—academic, scientific, medical, industrial—are deeply profit-driven. It’s ironic that:
➤ If molvis were truly overflowing with halwa,
➤ These same liberals would rush to make their children scholars.
They dismiss religious disagreements as petty or personal, but label scientific disagreements as noble “intellectual discourse”.
✿ Underlying Causes of These Accusations
There are two primary reasons for such flawed views:
➊ Ignorance of their own system’s reality, which is equally commercialized.
➋ Viewing Islamic scholarship through a purely material lens, unable to comprehend knowledge pursued for higher, selfless purposes.
✔ Summary
➤ Liberals accuse molvis of leveraging religion for gain.
➤ Their idealization of science as selfless is a myth—scientific knowledge is often profit-oriented.
➤ Modern institutions are riddled with financial interests, corruption, and global profiteering.
➤ The accusation of “halwa” reflects ignorance and intellectual hypocrisy, not genuine critique.
وَاللّٰهُ أَعْلَمُ
