Excerpts from speeches by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Mohammed Ali Jinnah :
Muslims are not a Minority.
Muslims are a Separate Nation.
Muslims and Hindus can not live together.
I. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (born October 17, 1817, died March 27, 1898)
In no country do Muslims
living as a minority identify
themselves with the country's
nation. For example, in Sri Lanka,
racially Indian, linguistically
Tamilian, but religiously Muslim,
they call themselves Muslims
and have a party like Sri Lanka
Muslim Congress. In India, there
is an Indian Union Muslim
League. In France, UK, Norway
and the US, they like to be
called Muslims first. In India
for quite some time past, they
are saying they are Muslim
Indians, not Indian Muslims.
This means they are first and
last Muslims who happen to be
in India. This question, whether
Muslims are part of the nation,
has been clearly spelt out by
the most leading intellectuals
and politicians of Muslim
Indians. As early as in 1888,
that is just 3 years after the
Indian National Congress was
founded, Sir Sayyed Ahmed
Khan, the first tallest western
educated Muslim of India, made
a speech in Meerut on 16th
March, 1888, asserting that
Muslims are a separate nation.
He advised the Muslims not to
join the Indian National
Congress. His speech was
titled, "One Country Two
Nations". Here are excerpts.
QUOTE
I think it expedient that I
should first of all tell you the
reason why I am about to
address you on the subject of
tonight's discourse. You know,
gentlemen, that, from a long
time, our friends, the Bengalis,
have shown very warm feeling
on political matters. Three
years ago they founded a very
big assembly, which holds its
sittings in various places, and
they have given it the name
"National Congress." We and
our nation gave no thought to
the matter. And we should be
very glad for our friends the
Bengalis to be successful, if
we were of the opinion that
they had by their education
and ability made such progress
as rendered them fit for the
claims they put forward. But
although they are superior to
us in education, yet we have
never admitted that they have
reached that level to which
they lay claim to have attained.
Nevertheless I have never, in
any article, or in any speech,
or even in conversation in any
place, put difficulties or desired
to put difficulties in the way of
any of their undertakings. It
has never been my wish to
oppose any people or any
nation who wish to make
progress, and who have raised
themselves up to that rank to
which they wish to attain and
for which they are qualified.
But, my friends, the Bengalis
have made a most unfair and
unwarrantable interference with
my nation, and therefore it is
my duty to show clearly what
this unwarrantable interference
has been, and to protect my
nation from the evils that may
arise from it.
what I am about to say is
not only useful for my own
nation, but also for my Hindu
brothers of these Provinces,
who from some wrong notions
have taken part in this
Congress. At last they also will
be sorry for it — although
perhaps they will never have
occasion to be sorry; for it is
beyond the region of possibility
that the proposals of the
Congress should be carried
out fully.
After this long preface, I
wish to explain what method
my nation — nay, rather the
whole people of this country —
ought to pursue in political
matters. I will treat in regular
sequence of the political
questions of India, in order that
you may have full opportunity
of giving your attention to them.
The first of all is this — In
whose hands shall the
administration and the Empire
of India rest? Now, suppose
that all English, and the whole
English army, were to leave
India, taking with them all their
cannon and their splendid
weapons and everything, then
who would be rulers of India?
Is it possible that under these
circumstances, two nations —
the Mahomedans and the
Hindus — could sit on the
same throne and remain equal
in power? Most certainly not. It
is necessary that one of them
should conquer the other and
thrust it down. To hope that
both could remain equal is to
desire the impossible and the
inconceivable. At the same
time, you must remember that
although the number of
Mahomedans is less than that
of the Hindus, and although
they contain far fewer people
who have received a high
English education, yet they
must not be thought
insignificant or weak. Probably
they would be by themselves
enough to maintain their own
position. But suppose they were
not. Then our Mussalman
brothers, the Pathans, would
come out as a swarm of
locusts from their mountain
valleys, and make rivers of
blood to flow from their frontier
in the north to the extreme end
of Bengal. This thing — who,
after the departure of the
English, would be conquerors
— would rest on the will of
God. But until one nation had
conquered the other and made
it obedient, peace could not
reign in the land. This
conclusion is based on proofs
so absolute that no one can
deny it.
The aspirations of our
friends, the Bengalis, have made
such progress that they want
to scale a height to which it is
beyond their powers to attain.
But if I am not in error, I believe
that the Bengalis have never at
any period held sway over a
particle of land. They are
altogether ignorant of the
method by which a foreign
race can maintain its rule over
other races. Therefore, reflect
on the doings of your
ancestors, and be not unjust to
the British Government to
whom God has given the rule
of India; and look honestly and
see what is necessary for it to
do, to maintain its empire and
its hold on the country. You
can appreciate these matters;
but they cannot who have never
held a country in their hands
nor won a victory. Oh! my
brother Musalmans! I again
remind you that you have ruled
nations, and have for centuries
held different countries in your
grasp. For seven hundred
years in India, you have had
Imperial sway. You know what
it is to rule. Be not unjust to
that nation which is ruling over
you, and think also on this:
how upright is her rule. Of
such benevolence as the
English Government shows to
the foreign nations under her,
there is no example in the
history of the world.
we ought to unite with that
nation with whom we can unite.
No Mahomedan can say that
the English are not "People of
the Book." No Mahomedan can
deny this: that God has said
that no people of other religions
can be friends of Mahomedans
except the Christians. He who
had read the Koran and
believes it, he can know that
our nation cannot expect
friendship and affection from
any other people. At this time,
our nation is in a bad state as
regards education and wealth,
but God has given us the light
of religion, and the Koran is
present for our guidance, which
has ordained them and us to
be friends.
Now God has made them
rulers over us. Therefore we
should cultivate friendship with
them, and should adopt that
method by which their rule
may remain permanent and
firm in India, and may not pass
into the hands of the Bengalis.
UNQUOTE
II. Mohammed Ali Jinnah (born December 25, 1876, died September 11, 1948)
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who is identified as singularly
responsible for the division of
India and creation of the
Islamic state of Pakistan, had
in his famous March 1940 speech at Lahore to the Muslim
League, when it adopted the
Pakistan resolution, once again
asserted that Muslims are a
separate nation, separate from
Hindus and other non–Muslims. Here are excepts
from his speech.
QUOTE
Notwithstanding thousand
years of close contact,
nationalities, which are as
divergent today as ever, cannot
at any time be expected to
transform themselves into one
nation, merely by means of
subjecting them to a
democratic constitution and
holding them forcibly together
by unnatural and artificial
methods of British Parliament
statutes. What the unitary
government of India for 150
years had failed to achieve
cannot be realized by the
imposition of a central federal
government.
It is extremely difficult to
appreciate why our Hindu
friends fail to understand the
real nature of Islam and
Hinduism. They are not
religions in the strict sense of
the word, but are, in fact,
different and distinct social
orders and it is a dream that
the Hindus and Muslims can
ever evolve a common
nationality, and this
misconception of one Indian
nation has gone far beyond the
limits and is the cause of
most of our troubles and will
lead India to destruction if we
fall to revise our notions in
time. The Hindus and Muslims
belong to two different religious
philosophies, social customs,
literature. They neither
intermarry, nor interline together
and indeed they belong to two
different civilizations which are
based mainly on conflicting
ideas and conceptions. Their
aspects on life and of life are
different. It is quite clear that
Hindus and Mussalmans derive
their inspiration from different
sources of history. They have
different epics, different heroes
and different episodes. Very
often the hero of one is a foe
of the other and likewise their
victories and defeats overlap.
To yoke together two such
nations under a single state,
one as a numerical minority
and the other as a majority,
must lead to growing
discontent and final destruction
of any fabric that may be so
built up for the government of
such a state.
History has presented to
us many examples such as
the Union of Great Britain and
Ireland, Czechoslovakia and
Poland. History has also shown
to us many geographical tracts,
much smaller than the subcontinent
of India, which
otherwise might have been
called one country, but which
have been divided into as many
states as there are nations
inhabiting them. The Bulkan
peninsula comprises as many
as seven or eight sovereign
states. Likewise, the
Portuguese and the Spanish
stand divided in the Iberian
Peninsula, Whereas under the
plea of unity of India and one
nation which does not exist, it
is sought to pursue here the
line of one central government
when we know that the history
of the last twelve hundred years
has failed to achieve unity and
has witnessed, during these
ages, India always divided into
Hindu India and Muslim India.
The present artificial unity of
India dates back only to the
British conquest and is
maintained by the British
bayonet, but the termination of
the British regime, which is
implicit in the recent declaration
of His Majesty's government,
will be the herald of the entire
break-up with worse disaster
than has ever taken place
during the last one thousand
years under Muslims. Surely,
that is not the legacy which
Britain would bequeath to India
after 150 years of her rule,nor
would Hindu and Muslim India
risk such a sure catastrophe.
Muslim India cannot accept
any constitution which must
necessarily result in a Hindu
majority government. Hindus
and Muslims brought together
under a democratic system
forced upon the minorities can
only mean Hindu Raj.
Democracy of the kind with
which the Congress High
Command is enamored would
mean the complete destruction
of what is most precious in
Islam. We have had ample
experience of the working of
the provincial constitutions
during the last two and a half
years (1937-39) and any
repetition of such a government
must lead to civil war and
raising of private armies as
recommended by Mr. Gandhi
to Hindus of Sukkur, when he
said that they must defend
themselves violently or non-violently,
blow for blow, and if
they could not, they must
emigrate.
Mussalmans are not a
minority as it is commonly
known and understood.
Mussalmans are a nation
according to any definition of
a nation and they must have
their homelands, their territory
and their state.
UNQUOTE
Muslims, who agitated, rioted
and voted for the division of the
country and creation of
Pakistan in the two decades
1930s & 1940s have continued
to live in India. Similarly, the
former Razakars and their
progeny, who wanted to
establish the Islamic state of
Nizam, who took to arms to
convert the Nizam Nawab's of
Hyderabad territory into a
sovereign independent Islamic
state are also continuing to live
in Hyderabad and Telengana.
Now, all these are calling
themselves minorities and in
order to assert their
separatism, they have
demanded and have been
granted by the vote-seeking
and hunting "secular" parties,
minority commissions, minority
educational institutions, minority
finance corporations, minority
(majority) districts, minority
Urdu universities and now
reservation for minorities. Very
soon, they will be asking for
separate electorate as before
1947 and then autonomy for
the Muslim districts (90 of them
as planned by the UPA
government) and ultimately
secession from India like in
Kashmir.
The "secular" parties, are
either innocently or criminally
collaborating with this minority,
whose ultimate goal is the
restoration of the whole of this
country to Muslim rule either
by conquest or by demographic
explosion.
Author: Excerpts from the speeches by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Source: Secularism Combat 2010 March
http://www.votebankpolitics.com/sc/sc2010/sc201003/muslim-nation-sc201003.html
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