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.
Ali, ther is no surprise at al that these JUI maulanas are saying what they are saying.
The surprise is that so many people seem to believe them. Have you noticed how many people here are defending the JUI leaders and how many are refusing to just simply say that the JUI view is wrong. So they twist and turn things into being about religious or non religoous or whatever. But never condemn what the JUI is saying. So they are really agreeing with JUI.
That is real surprise.
Can you please take you dawa’h baazi somewhere else. Why impose your perverted beliefs on others.
Aap khud musalman howeaye janab, ameen.
Abdullah,
I am not portraying myself as anything. Everyone can read your post and mine and decide for themselves as to who is biased and who is not.
1. Quaid-e-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah at Srinagar in 1944 said very clearly that those who are spreading propaganda against Ahmadis are conspiring against Islam. As for Ahmadis’ role, I have quoted links to original pieces of work that show the role of Ahmadis in the Pakistan movement. Your claim that they constituted a small number is laughable, when we consider that Jinnah was just one man… and yet he did so much.
2. Your claim that Jinnah supported Ataturk because his views were not clear in the subcontinent is a laughable claim which I have dealt with above. Needless to say, according to you, Jinnah, who was in touch with all major politicians and leaders of his time, was some how ignorant of global politics? This is just too funny a claim to be taken seriously.
3. Khawaja Nazimuddin – like Jinnah- fought hard against Jamaat-e-Islami’s riots against Ahmadis. This is also on the record. His government fell but he continued to fight for their rights.
4. Most MSF people recall that Jamaat-e-Islami and MSF used to clash during British rule over the question of Pakistan.
5. Maududi’s role against Jinnah, his abuse against Muslim League and Pakistan and his opposition to Jinnah’s idea of Pakistan is well known. No amount of lying will change that. To say that he did not take out a rally in support of Congress does not mean anything… when you consider that nobody took Maududi seriously when Jinnah was still alive.
So you can say whatever you want but truth will remain the truth. Now you can go on praising Maududi and fighting for your Islamist utopia… but must you lie about Quaid-e-Azam?
Conversion, is always a dynamic phenomenon. Perceptions can change on the basis of ‘learning’ & ‘exposure to knowledge” or ‘truth’.
e.g. at one point majority of the Muslims couldn’t understand the Ahamdies wicked face, but as soon as knowledge & truth spread, now 100% of the Muslims realized that Ahmadies are non Muslims.
At one point QA was hard believer of Hindu Muslim unity, but as the time passes, he realized that it is just dream then a time come when was the advocate of Muslim nationalism.
Similarly, QA was a Western educated secular Muslim but when QA interact with Ulema like Mufti Shafi & etc. in Pakistan movement then he get the opportunity to understand the real Islam & its teaching, that’s why he offered Namaz-e-Eid after independence in Sunni maslak & also he namaz-e-janaza was also offered in sunni way.
So may be at one point time he praised Ataturk , but keep in mind at that time the actual picture of Ataturk & Turkey was also not so clear in subcontinent.
Mr. YLH,
Here u portrait urself as a very knowledgeable intellectual, but in fact ur knowledge is biased & very limited.
No one can prove that Maulana Maududi wrote, did any struggle, delivered any speech, took out any procession, met or become allied with Congress, give any press release against the Pakistan movement. Even he didn’t forced his workers to do any activity either in favor nor in against. Due to his impartiality, MSF & ML workers used his books in favor of two nation theory
Boss ! u r committing the crime by misguiding the people, It is on the record that QA encouraged him to delivered speeches in favor of Islam to develop mindset of people. He also told to a representative of JI that ML & JI targets are same.
[quote post=”566″]Quaid-e-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah promised complete equality for all citizens of Pakistan and his greatest supporters were the Qadianis[/quote]
Pls, Pls wait a minute, what a joke, no no YLH, r u serious? No boss u r kidding? Can u realize what u r saying? I think u need to consult with any Psychiatrist.
Was Liaquat Ali Khan, Sardar Abdul Rab Nishtar, Khawaja Nazim uddin are Quadyanies?
Do u know the population ratio of Quadyanees in Muslim India? not more than 0.2%.
Where thy belongs, just in few districts of Punjab in scattered groups.
Can u share me any single good name of that ‘GREAT’ leader.
Nauman tasleem,
I’d like some evidence of Ghaffar khan’s daughter. Furthermore Jinnah’s opposition to his daughter’s wedding had familial issues primarily that Jinnah’s mother in law Mrs Petit had arranged the whole thing to get back at Jinnah. Furthermore personal familial decisions have no bearing on issue of ideology … Nehru had a similar problem with his daughter and gandhi was perturbed about his son’s conversion to Islam. In any event Jinnah did go back to talking terms with his daughter soon after and used to play with his grandson a lot… He used to carry Nusli’s picture with him according to Begum Shahnawaz … So much for boycott.