Adil Najam
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, it seems, was not a “real freedom fighter” and he did “nothing for Islam.” (On Jinnah, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
So says the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI). And by what logic does Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his party come to this conclusion? According to the party spokesman: “Jinnah was not imprisoned during the independence struggle. That is why he did nothing worth remembering.”
I am left rather speechless. So, here is the news item from Daily Times (February 9, 2007) that reports on the matter:
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) will celebrate 2007 by paying tribute to the heroes who played an important role in the independence of Pakistan ignoring Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his companions, JUI officials told Daily Times on Thursday. They said that the party would hold conventions in Peshawar and other cities of the NWFP in March to highlight the services of “real freedom fighters”
“The decision to this effect was taken at the meeting of the JUI executive council in Lahore a couple of days ago. National Assembly Opposition Leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman presided over the meeting,” they added. JUI information secretary Maulana Amjad Khan said that Jinnah and his companions would not be commemorated because they had not done anything for Islam. “Jinnah was not imprisoned during the independence struggle. That is why he did nothing worth remembering,” Khan added.
He said the JUI would remember only those leaders who had sacrificed their lives for the creation of Pakistan or who had been imprisoned by the British Raj. JUI leader Qari Nazir Ahmed said the party would remember Hussain Maulana Ahmed Madni, Maulana Qasim Nanotri, Maulana Ubaid Ullah Sindhi, Maulana Mehmoodul Hassan, Syed Ahmed Shaheed, Shah Ismael Shaheed, Mauala Rasheed Ahmed and other leaders, who had rendered great sacrifices for the creation of Pakistan. “Maulana Qasim Nanotri established the Madrasa Darul Uloom Deoband. The institute produced a large number of freedom fighters,” Qari Nazir added. He said a schedule for conventions in the Punjab had not been decided yet. JUI Lahore chapter ameer Maulana Muhibun Nabi said the party would also arrange programmes in Lahore in this connection.
Interesting, by the way, that it seems that to be a “real freedom fighter” you have ‘Maulana’ prefixed before your name or a ‘Shaheed’ as a suffix.
Note: My thank to Watandost for alerting me to this rewriting of history.
Adil Bhai
thanks for the post as it alerted us yet again to the mullah-speak and also engendered a lively debate here. Judging by the majority of the comments, it seems that Jinnah’s vision for a democratic and tolerant Pakistan is alive – at least in the web-browsing citizens. Yes there have been what someone called “fights’ on this space – this is all a part of a healthy culture where people should have the liberty to air their views.
Let us not forget that this very “freedom fighting” forces that called Quaide Azam KAFIRE AZAM and Pakistan, NA-PAKISTAN (these are historically documented facts)are today the biggest beneficiaries of the Pakistani state!! Ironic that those who opposed Pakistan and Jinnah, enjoy hold over two provincial governments but also retain the coveted leader of the opposition post (without the requisite majority in the House of course). Above all these elements have also arrogated upon themselves the ideological positioning of Pakistan.
Amazing indeed!
famalik, you have not defined Secularism so its difficult for me to answer these questions. I know that quran says ‘there is no compulsion in religion’. That should give us some basis for tolerating differences of beliefs/ideas and for most part stay out of each others way.
“Secularism and Islam”
I have been thinking about this topic for a while now and have yet to find a satisfactory answer to my question. The proponents of Secularism, of which there are many on this forum (from the look of things), what do they truly propose:
– Acceptance of Secularism regardless of what Islam says about Secularism?
OR
– after study of Quran and Sunnah they have intrepreted that Islam and Secularism do not conflict
My point is, do you care what Islam has to say about Secularism or should we accept it (as the West has done so) regardless of what Quran and Sunnah have to say about this.
Thanks for your time, I really appreciate.
Thanks for your response “MU”
I actually agree with you, I did the same thing. I learned how to do all this myself but as soon as I learned to lead prayers, memorize Quran and educate myself in asool-e-fiqh; I had a realization. I became the very “Mullah” that is the butt of all the jokes.
In the end the whole exercise is very futile. The only difference was that I had to start keeping a beard and wear my shalwar a little higher and I’d be your contemporary ‘Mullah’.
Is praying 5 times a day in congregation an extremist activity?
[quote post=”566″]Mullah is not required for any of the three or any major occasion. All three of your points can be done by any body[/quote]
ROTFL!
According to MU’s general theory of stupidity, there is no role of a mentor in our lives that is students don’t need a professor like Adil of Tufts institute or Eric Schmidt[Google fame] of Stanford are worthless because people can all required things at home on their own then why the hell people has to pay lots of dollars to attend lectures of these guys and waste time while books are available? Did you ever argue your parents why did they send you school,college and then university for education? If Your point is valid[which is offcrouse no doubt] then we don’t need teachers like Adil,Eric,Dr.Ata etc because these guys are not more educated than us.
you didn’t disclose something new that mentioned things can’t be performed by any other muslim. I myself has done imamat of salat several times in my office but it doesn’t declare me an Imam because I don’t meet certain criteria ,offcourse i dont know everything related with Islamic teaching. I could be a temporary imam but its stupidity to declare myself an authority.
[quote post=”566″]I am educated[/quote]
Now this is funny! it reminds me a latifa[joke] that a pagal was kept screaming on roads that “Mey pagal nahi houn”