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India never was one, never was a Nation, never was a country governed by one single power even with the sword. It is a sub-continent of different nationalities and people. It was never governed in history by one single power. Even today, when constitutionally and legally Britain is ruling over India, one-third is not British. This administrative oneness is entirely the making of the British. This Government which has been in this sub-continent for 150 or 160 years is not a Government with the sanction of the people.
Quaid's Speech at the meeting of All India Muslim League Council, Delhi
November 9, 1942.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Pakistan - The Way to Freedom
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Pandit Nehru says that the Congress is prepared to pay any price (as if India belonged to the Congress) except the price of freedom and their honour. Who suggests that the freedom of the Indian people should be bartered away? We are firmly of the opinion that the quikest way to achieve India's freedom is by the acceptance of the Pakistan scheme by agreement. I fail to see how the question of the sacrifice of honour comes in, if Hindu India were to accept the right of 100 million Muslims of India to self-determination instead of forcing them to remain in an artificial and unnatural union with most disastrous and dangrous consequences that must follow if such a course was adopted.
Quaid's statement on the 'Quit India' Movement
issued from Bombay
August 9, 1942.
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Pandit Nehru says that the Congress is prepared to pay any price (as if India belonged to the Congress) except the price of freedom and their honour. Who suggests that the freedom of the Indian people should be bartered away? We are firmly of the opinion that the quikest way to achieve India's freedom is by the acceptance of the Pakistan scheme by agreement. I fail to see how the question of the sacrifice of honour comes in, if Hindu India were to accept the right of 100 million Muslims of India to self-determination instead of forcing them to remain in an artificial and unnatural union with most disastrous and dangrous consequences that must follow if such a course was adopted.
Quaid's statement on the 'Quit India' Movement
issued from Bombay
August 9, 1942.
Hindu Majority Rule
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I cannot be accused of being pro-British. No Indian worthy of the name wants foreign domination. But don't you see that if I agreed to join this treat, it could only be my accepting to Congress demands, which are opposed to Pakistan, and is the British Government surrendered, Muslim India would be faced not only by Hindu Majority rule but a Hindu Majority triumphant with British co-operation?
Quaid's Interview to a Foreign Correspondent Regarding Gandhi's Offer.
October 6, 1944.
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I cannot be accused of being pro-British. No Indian worthy of the name wants foreign domination. But don't you see that if I agreed to join this treat, it could only be my accepting to Congress demands, which are opposed to Pakistan, and is the British Government surrendered, Muslim India would be faced not only by Hindu Majority rule but a Hindu Majority triumphant with British co-operation?
Quaid's Interview to a Foreign Correspondent Regarding Gandhi's Offer.
October 6, 1944.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
DEMOCRACY AND INDIA - Two Nations and Societies
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Democracy means, to begin with, majority rule. Majority rule in a single nation, in a single society is understandable,..Representative government in a single nation, harmonious, homogenous and one is understandable. But you have only got to apply your mind for a few minutes to see the truth. Can such a system ever work or succeed when you have two different nations - indeed more than two different nations - in this sub-continent, when you have two totally different societies, the Muslim Society and the Hindu Society.
Quaid's Presidential address at the session of the
All-India Muslim League, Madras.
April, 1941.
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Democracy means, to begin with, majority rule. Majority rule in a single nation, in a single society is understandable,..Representative government in a single nation, harmonious, homogenous and one is understandable. But you have only got to apply your mind for a few minutes to see the truth. Can such a system ever work or succeed when you have two different nations - indeed more than two different nations - in this sub-continent, when you have two totally different societies, the Muslim Society and the Hindu Society.
Quaid's Presidential address at the session of the
All-India Muslim League, Madras.
April, 1941.
Sheet-Anchor
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What is it that keeps the Muslims united as one man, and what is the bedrock and sheet-anchor of the community. It is Islam. It is the Great book, Quran, that is the sheet-anchor of Muslim India. I am sure that as we go on and on there will be more and more of oneness - one God, one Book, one Prophet and one Nation.
Quaid concluding his Speech at the session of the All-India Muslim League.
Karachi, 26, December, 1943
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What is it that keeps the Muslims united as one man, and what is the bedrock and sheet-anchor of the community. It is Islam. It is the Great book, Quran, that is the sheet-anchor of Muslim India. I am sure that as we go on and on there will be more and more of oneness - one God, one Book, one Prophet and one Nation.
Quaid concluding his Speech at the session of the All-India Muslim League.
Karachi, 26, December, 1943
Muslim Women
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I am glad to see that not only Muslim men but Muslim women and children also have understood the Pakistan scheme. No nation can make progress without the co-operation of its women. If Muslim women support their men, as they did in the days of the Prophet of Islam, we should soon realize our goal.
Quaid's speech at Jinnah Islamia College for Girls,
Lahore, November 22 1942.
I am glad to see that not only Muslim men but Muslim women and children also have understood the Pakistan scheme. No nation can make progress without the co-operation of its women. If Muslim women support their men, as they did in the days of the Prophet of Islam, we should soon realize our goal.
Quaid's speech at Jinnah Islamia College for Girls,
Lahore, November 22 1942.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Islam and Democracy
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I was told that I have done disservice to Islam because Islam believes in democracy. So far as I have understood Islam, it does not advocate a democracy which would allow the majority of non-Muslims to decide the fate of Muslims. We cannot accept a system of Government in which the non-Muslims merely by numerical Majority would rule and dominate us.
Speech at Aligarh Muslim University - March 6, 1940.
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I was told that I have done disservice to Islam because Islam believes in democracy. So far as I have understood Islam, it does not advocate a democracy which would allow the majority of non-Muslims to decide the fate of Muslims. We cannot accept a system of Government in which the non-Muslims merely by numerical Majority would rule and dominate us.
Speech at Aligarh Muslim University - March 6, 1940.
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