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.
inAYAT-deshAni, what is the proof of your baseless claims?
da whOle cOmments given by differnt peOple..wz tOtALLY misUnderstandinG.
MOLANA FAZL-UR-REHMAN is di great leader of di muslim Omma, specially 4 pakistan.
saying tht key molana Fazlur Rehman nd his party wz against pakistan nd quaid-e-azam..is totaly wrOng..we all must knOw tht when PAKISTAN came into being ..di first one wz da same molana jis ne pakistan ka flag leh raya.. isi pakistan ki khatir 700 olma-e-karam ne jaam-e-shadat nosh kya…nd MOLANA FAZLUR REHMAN is in di true sense a great leader of PAKISTAN.nd wt ever he iz doing 4 pakistan nd muslim Omma…..thts totaly in di favour of our country , nation nd islam..
My friend’s comments about JUI are like a pot calling a sauceman black ! It’s not right to be judgmental about others on the basis of an oddity or past(or present ) opinions, or incomplete and sketchy information about something or anything.. Let the government take care of who’s who as this is none of a ‘surfacers’ business.
Quaid-e-Azam switched over to Sherwani Pajama and Quraqali Topi in his last years clearly go to prove he got ‘transformed’ from a free and luxury loving man to an ostensibly good Muslim (better late than never) . He was surely a man of high ideals, a statesman, a brilliant lawyer and lastly a good Muslim as well and i confirm he didn’t raise a beard until his sad demise.
“Quaid-e-Azam got bent over to Islam in his later-most years ”
Good story…..
There are people who have seen quaid-e-azam and there are videos and pictures in libraries. Other wise people like you would have told us that he also had long beared.
Recent news on JUI is that wanted terrorist Abdullah Mahsood, who was responsible for killing of citizen’s of our best friend China, was found at the local JUI official’s home in Zob. JUI have been traitors to Pakistan’s interests all along; before Pakistan’s creation, after and even now. Its time this organisation be officially declared anti-Pakistan outfit, which it is.