News Analysis | On the 71 st Independence Day of Pakistan, it is useful that we remind ourselves why there had to be a separate nation for the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. Jinnah would have committed political suicide had he written off the Muslims in non-Muslim majority provinces from whom he drew his strength and also if he had written off the non-Muslim majority areas of Punjab and Bengal. Pakistan shall be a Federal Republic to be known as Islamic Republic of Pakistan, hereinafter referred to as Pakistan – Constitution of Pakistan Article 1.
The following are excerpts from the letters exchanged between Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi. It should now become glaringly evident that Jinnah (founder of Islamic Republic of Pakistan) was, in fact, just Muslim.
The Sole Spokesman is the single most influential academic work on the dynamics of the Pakistan Movement and the role played by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in it. Religion of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Munir Quote. Jinnah really wanted a secular Pakistan? Nothing has been settled so far. Iqbal, Jinnah, and Pakistan: The Vision and the Reality /*/. Though Jinnah was clearly interested in ensuring a homeland for Muslims, Ahmed's book makes clear that this London-trained lawyer was no Islamic fundamentalist. In Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity, Akbar S. Ahmed shines the spotlight on a man whose character, he feels, has been distorted by the official Pakistani line. His supporters from these areas would have … Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three.” Stanley Wolpert These are the opening lines of the preface of Stanley Wolpert’s book, “Jinnah of Pakistan” and serves to entice you to read an extremely thorough, comprehensive and detailed study about one of the most pragmatic and charismatic leaders of South Asia, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Jinnah was elected president of the Lucknow Muslim League session in 1916 (from now he would be one of its main leaders, becoming president of the League itself from 1920 to 1930 and again from 1937 to 1947 until after the creation of Pakistan). We shall not stand in its way to do so.” [Mehrunnisa Ali (ed.) Iqbal saw the vision, Jinnah gave it a concrete shape, so goes the popular story about the creation of Pakistan, perhaps the only modern nation other than Israel that owes its existence to a nationalism inspired by religion. This article only provides a couple of inadequate arguments in favour of discarding the term “Jinnah’s Pakistan”. All parties are able to provide valid evidence to support their stance on the argument and the matter has never been fully settled. In Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity, Akbar S. Ahmed shines the spotlight on a man whose character, he feels, has been distorted by the official Pakistani line. Though Jinnah was clearly interested in ensuring a homeland for Muslims, Ahmed's book makes clear that this London-trained lawyer was no Islamic fundamentalist.