Some people have corrupted the meaning of the word Ummah so much that they have destroyed the meaning beyond recognition.
Ummah is to refer to a community of people. It is a term similar to humankind. It can refer to the Muslim Ummah if you want to refer only to Muslims. The United Nations is called Ummah Muttahida in Arabic. And in Islam, it refers to the entire community of nations Muslims and Non-Muslims that are living peacefully. When Prophet Muhammed (SAW) wrote the constitution of Medina, the Jews and other non-Muslims of Median were included in the definition of Ummah
The Ummah or community of people should show their genous nature or Ummahness by helping out the people in Somalia, Afghanistan and Yemen. It is the people donating and volunteering for the causes for helping the poor in their community regardless of his religion because he belongs to their Ummah or community. It was about feeding, clothing. sheltering the needy. Has that been done? Is anyone considering THIS aspect of Ummah? What is being done on this regard?
The Ummah is about these social values, it was about the universal values of Islam at a personal and social level.
Unfortunately we have bunch of people who have corrupted Ummah into meaning some sort of political / military bloc and that Ummah should be used as a tool to further their political interests of Pakistan. The former PM Bhutto had this in mind when he held his OIC summit and it is a shameful use of Islam and "Ummah".
India has no problem with any other Muslim country in the world, but for its own selfish interests which Pakistani leaders put above the "Ummah", Yahya Khan refused to join OIC even though India had been invited as a founding member. What it seems is that Ummah should sacrifice everything to help Pakistan's political ambition vis a vis India. This use of Islam as a political tool is very wrong and has to end. The leadership of all other countries who were skeptical about India during the Cold war have now seen through this facade and Pakistan can no longer fool other countries.
The title should say
Time to abandon using Islam as a political tool to use it against India and fool the Pakistani public for the greater good of the nation
because that is what the thread is really referring in the name of Ummah when in reality it has nothing to do with it.
First there was the US lap where Pakistani elite jumped into in hoping to "defeat India", when that didn't work it was the "Ummah" . Now that since the end of cold war and particularly post 9/11 that doesn't work either, it is now the Chinese lap.
Lets just cut the chase, realise that India was, is and will be the most important country/partner/entity that Pakistan will have to deal with for the rest of its "life" and it has to mend its relations with India.