Ideology of Pakistan in the light of Quaid-e-Azam’s Sayings
Ideology of Pakistan in the light of Quaid-e-Azam’s Sayings
Ideology of Pakistan and
Quaid-e-Azam
Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the great leader of Muslims of
Sub Continent gave practical shape to the ideology given by Allama Iqbal. He
had a strong believe in Hindu Muslim unity and was of the opinion that both
Hindus and Muslims should launch joint efforts to get rid of British rule.
After joining Muslim League in 1913, he continued with his efforts
to bring about Hindu Muslim unity but he was greatly disappointed to see the
prejudicial attitude of the Congress and Hindus towards the Muslims. Following
are some extracts from the speeches and statements which he delivered from time
to time for explaining the ideology of Pakistan.
Address at Second Round
Table Conference in 1931
Quaid-e-Azam believed that Congress and Hindus would never
recognize the rights of Mulsims. He declared while representing the Muslims in
the Second Round Table Conference in 1913:
“The Hindu Muslim
dispute must be settled before the enforcement of any system or constitution.
Untill you do not give guarantee for the safeguard of the Muslim interests,
untill you do not win their (Mulims) co-operations, any constitution you
enforce shall not las for even 24 hours.”
Quaid-e-Azam and Two
Nation Theory
Quaid-e-Azam was a firm advocate of two nation theory which
became the ideological basis Pakistan. He considered the Muslims as a separate
nation. He said:
“Pakistan was created
the day the first Indian national entered the field of Islam.”
He defined the two nation theory as:
“The Muslims are a
nation by every right to establish their separate homeland. They can adopt any
means to promote and protect their economic social, political and cultural
interests."
Address on 23rd March,
1940 – Pakistan Resolution
At the historic session of the Muslim League at Lahore,
he said:
“The Mussalmans are not
a minority. They are a nation by any definition. By all canons of International
lwa we are a nation.”
In his presidential address at the annual session of Muslim League
at Lahore in 1940, he said:
“India is not a nation,
nor a country. It is a Sub Continent of nationalities. Hindus and Muslims being
the two major nations. The Hindus and Muslims belongs belong to two different
religions, philosophies, social customs and literature. They neither intermarry
nor interdine and they belong to two different civilization which are based
mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspects on life and of are
different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Muslims derive their inspiration
from different sources of history.”
Address on March 8, 1944
While addressing the students of Muslim University, he said:
“Hindus and Muslims
through living in the same town and villages, had never been blended into one
nation. They were always two separate entities.”
Quaid-e-Azam and
Millat-e-Islamia
Quaid-e-Azam emphasized on the Islamic ideology as being the basis
of the struggle for Pakistan because he believed that only Islam was the
unifying force of the Muslim Millat. He said:
“What relationships
knits the Muslims into one whole, which is the formidable rock on which the
Muslim edifice has been erected, which is the sheet anchor providing base to
the Muslim Millat, the relationship, the sheet anchor and the rock is Holy
Quran.”
Address at Islamia
College Peshawar
In 1946, Quaid-e-Azam declared:
“We do not demand
Pakistan simply to have a piece of land but we want a laboratory where we could
experiment on Islamic principles.”
Address on 18th June
1945
In his message to the frontier Muslim Students Federation, he
said:
“Pakistan only means
freedom and independence but Muslims ideology, which has to be preserved which
has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which w hope, others will
share with us.”
Conclusion
The above sayings and
statements largely prove that Quaid-e-Azam wanted a establish an Islamic system
as a code of life because he believed that it was the sole objective of the
Pakistan Movement.
