Pakistan came into being more
than sixty three years ago. The most important and the most commonly held
misperception about Pakistan is that it was created for Islam. No, it was not
created for Islam. It was created for the Musalmaans of India, for the economic
uplift and the betterment of the down trodden Muslims of India. Islam was never
in any danger in the pre-partitioned India; as a matter of fact India had many
strong and highly influential religious institutions and centers of excellence
like Deoband, Breilli, Lucknow and even Qadian, that wielded their influence not
only in the undivided India but also in many other parts of the world where the
Muslims lived.
The famous two nation theory got its birth because of the Islamic identity of
the Muslims of India. The two nation theory so successfully made use of by the
Muslim League under Quaid e Azam was not religious in essence but political to
muster the Muslims of India under a separate flag. Had Pakistan to be created
for Islam, the Islamic parties and ulema would have been in the forefront to
support its creation.
“Pakistan ka matlab kia? La ilaha illilah”. “Lay kay rahaingain Pakistan, Butt
kay rahega Hindustan”, etc. were more to identify Muslims’ culture and identity
as a separate nation demanding a separate home land and to counter the
Hinduistic Band-e-Matram of the Akhand Bharat than a demand for an orthodox
religious Islamic state.
So, Pakistan was a need for Indian Muslims to get freedom for Islam…at least
Pakistan was introduced on world map.
A well thought out plan was conceived and the process of Islamisation of
Pakistan started, despite the fact that the Quaid had pronounced in unequivocal
terms in his famous speech of August 11,1947 on the floor of the Constituent
Assembly:, that : “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... We are starting with this fundamental
principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State... I think we
should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in due
course 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.”
Pakistan when came into being was the fifth largest state in the world and the
largest Muslim country.
Immediately after the creation of Pakistan and despite enormous hardships, lack
of resources and political hostility of India – withholding of Pakistan share of
finances etc. - who could ever dream of the kind of opulence, affluence and
opportunities bestowed upon the Muslims – employment, industries, mills and
factories, banks and financial institutions, shipping and transportation,
housing, malls and plazas, cars, air conditioners, refrigerators etc. that
Pakistan afforded to the Muslims in just a matter of a few decades after its
creation?! One has only to look at the plight of the majority of the Indian
Muslims to visualize the conditions that the Muslims in Pakistan too would have
been in had there been no Pakistan.
This is all what Pakistan was created for. A country to be ruled in accordance
with the Islamic injunctions for the amelioration of the economically and
socially down trodden Muslims of pre-partitioned India, and not to save Islam or
impose Islam of a specific brand and breed embroiling the masses in the
trivialities of rituals overlooking and ignoring the greater humanitarian
precepts of social equality and universal brotherhood. Denying women the
education or the opportunity of working in an office along with the male
workers? Islam is much above such petty matters. And Quaid wanted Islam of all
ages, an Islam interpreted in the light of modern, scientific and technological
age. An Islam emancipating the masses and opening to them vistas of the modern
and fruitful advancement they could make use of and play their important role in
the comity of the nations.
“IN MY POINT OF VIEW” Pakistan was essential elements for whole sub-continent
because of their separate religion and separate way of life..At that time it was
need to get a separate country to perform our religious activities separately.
So, that only way to save Islam or to save heritage of Islam which we got in
property from our four fathers. Because it is because there was that [a separate
Pakistan] they can turn on us and say, you have got your homeland, go to it. You
made it and who are you here now? Why, you as a minority. The worst of them can
say: whey are you as a minority trying to get any special privileges. Let us
jump forward for a second, looking back at it from today. Let us say there were
a lot of problems at that time in the creation of Pakistan. But today we are
much better and we are in majority so, we are satisfy with the creation of
Pakistan. We hope may it live long….PAKISTAN ZINDAABAD