“You are free to go your mosques and temples…”
which is an excerpt from the speech delivered by Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, to the first Constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947.
According to the ad, while addressing people, the Quaid (founder) made a pensive statement as he declared that all citizens in the new state of Pakistan, regardless of colour, caste, or creed, will be at liberty to follow and practice their religion ‘without any fear or favour’.
There is a picture of a man, placed in the center of the ad, who is praying all alone in a small mosque in Balochistan .
The ad reads, Nearly 64 years later, a devout Muslim is engaged in a tiny mosque adjoining the Khan of Kalat’s palace. There are 163 million Muslims in Pakistan today, divided into 72 official denominations. Can any Muslim preserve spiritual peace, unencumbered by fierce sectarian warfare and countless blood-spattered clashes, which are provoked daily by the invective of self-styled religious leaders? Yet, this Muslim continues to dream Mr. Jinnah’s dream of a free Pakistan.
One of Mr. Jinnah’s dreams was to see Pakistan as an independent and progressive state with no conflicts, controversies, bloodsheds, disputes, or any kind of brutal encounters especially in the name of religion.
It seems as if Muslims in Pakistan have tangled themselves in numerous fights with each other just because of the slight differences between them.
Pakistanis were supposed to carry on the Quaid’s dream; not walk in the opposite direction.
What do you have to say to this?
which is an excerpt from the speech delivered by Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, to the first Constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947.
According to the ad, while addressing people, the Quaid (founder) made a pensive statement as he declared that all citizens in the new state of Pakistan, regardless of colour, caste, or creed, will be at liberty to follow and practice their religion ‘without any fear or favour’.
There is a picture of a man, placed in the center of the ad, who is praying all alone in a small mosque in Balochistan .
The ad reads, Nearly 64 years later, a devout Muslim is engaged in a tiny mosque adjoining the Khan of Kalat’s palace. There are 163 million Muslims in Pakistan today, divided into 72 official denominations. Can any Muslim preserve spiritual peace, unencumbered by fierce sectarian warfare and countless blood-spattered clashes, which are provoked daily by the invective of self-styled religious leaders? Yet, this Muslim continues to dream Mr. Jinnah’s dream of a free Pakistan.
One of Mr. Jinnah’s dreams was to see Pakistan as an independent and progressive state with no conflicts, controversies, bloodsheds, disputes, or any kind of brutal encounters especially in the name of religion.
It seems as if Muslims in Pakistan have tangled themselves in numerous fights with each other just because of the slight differences between them.
Pakistanis were supposed to carry on the Quaid’s dream; not walk in the opposite direction.
What do you have to say to this?
