“”Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims-Hindus, Christians and Parsis – but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan.” [Feb. 1948, Jinnah’s broadcast address to the people of the United States of America]
“You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State…. You will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State.�? [Aug 11, 1947, Jinnah’s address to the First Constituent Assembly]
Ayesha Jalal cautions against using Jinnah’s references to the Shariah or the Islamic State in piecemeal fashion. She says that they need to be placed within the proper historical context while giving keen attention to what Jinnah, the man and the visionary really stood for:
“He was from first to last a constitutionalist who had argued at the time of the debate on the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1930 that if there was a clash between a so-called religious and public morality, then morality had to prevail, mullah or no mullah. There was no change in this basic outlook even as he made tactical adjustments in his later years to accommodate new political exigencies. When asked to discuss the future constitutional framework for the Muslim homeland he was demanding, he insisted that it would be up to the people of Pakistan to decide what sort of a state they wanted even though he had no doubt that their choice would be for a moderate, democratic and forward-looking state.�?
Read pls:
Jinnah and the Islamic State – Setting the Record Straight
Pervez Hoodbhoy August 13, 2007
Biast Host and Biast Guests….Quaid e Azam was not secholar at all….He was a real muslim, which they think is secholarism.
@rebelion1
What did Quaid E Azam said:
“”Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims-Hindus, Christians and Parsis – but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan.” [Feb. 1948, Jinnah’s broadcast address to the people of the United States of America]
“You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State…. You will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State.�? [Aug 11, 1947, Jinnah’s address to the First Constituent Assembly]
Ayesha Jalal cautions against using Jinnah’s references to the Shariah or the Islamic State in piecemeal fashion. She says that they need to be placed within the proper historical context while giving keen attention to what Jinnah, the man and the visionary really stood for:
“He was from first to last a constitutionalist who had argued at the time of the debate on the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1930 that if there was a clash between a so-called religious and public morality, then morality had to prevail, mullah or no mullah. There was no change in this basic outlook even as he made tactical adjustments in his later years to accommodate new political exigencies. When asked to discuss the future constitutional framework for the Muslim homeland he was demanding, he insisted that it would be up to the people of Pakistan to decide what sort of a state they wanted even though he had no doubt that their choice would be for a moderate, democratic and forward-looking state.�?
Read pls:
Jinnah and the Islamic State – Setting the Record Straight
Pervez Hoodbhoy August 13, 2007
excellent programme with beautiful information …..very good
wonderful programme
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