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Elaborate on the Ideology of Pakistan in the light of the Pronouncements of Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah)

Difficulty: Hard

According to Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) the territories having a Muslim majority i.e. Punjab, Bengal, Asam, Sindh, NWFP (KPK), and Balochistan should be put together to form Pakistan where people may lead their lives by the principles of their religion, civilization, traditions, ethics, and economics. The Muslims may run the affairs of the state according to their values freely. The minorities should enjoy equal rights too.

 

         1. Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) considered the Islamic System fully applicable. He wanted to establish the system of the country based on the Quran. In the session of the All India Muslim League at Karachi in 1943, he said:

What relationship knits the Muslims into one whole, which the formidable rock on which the Muslim edifice has been erected, which the sheet anchor providing a basis to the Muslim Millat, the relationship, the sheet anchor and the rock is Holy Quran.”

         2. While addressing the students in March 1944, Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) said:

“Islam is our guide and it is the complete code of life.”

         3. Addressing Aligarh, Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) explained the ideology of Pakistan in the following words:

What was the motive of demand for Pakistan and what was the reason of separate state for the Muslims? Why was the need to divide India felt? Its reasons is neither narrow neither mindedness of the Hindus nor tactics of the British. It is the fundamental demand of Islam.”

        4. Addressing the Officers of the Government of Pakistan at Karachi on 11th October 1947, Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) said:

“The establishment of Pakistan for which we have been striving for the last ten years is, by the grace of God, a fact today, but the creation of a State of our own was a means to an end and not the end in itself. The idea was that we should have a state in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find fair play.”

        5. On one occasion, while explaining the Ideology of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) said:

“We do not demand Pakistan simply to have a piece of land but we want a laboratory where we could experiment on Islamic principles.”

        6. On 21st March 1948, Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) addressed the people of Dhaka. He said:

“What we want is not to talk about Bengali, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Pathan, and so on. We are nothing but Pakistani. Now we must act like Pakistani.”

        7. On 1st July 1948, Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) inaugurated the State Bank of Pakistan. On this occasion, he said

“The economic system of the West has created almost insoluble problems for humanity. It has failed to do justice between man and man. We must present to the world an economic system based on the true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice.”

 

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