We have got the greatest message in the Quraa’n for our guidance and enlightenment
All that we have to do is to know ourselves and the great qualities, virtues and powers that we possessed. Let us work up to that great ideal. Let us utilize our great potentialities in the right direction.
Let us forego our personal interests and convenience for the collective good of our people and for a higher and nobler cause
Pakistan aims at it and if we stand united, organized and faithful to our cause, the time is not far off when we shall achieve our goal and prove ourselves worthy of our wonderful and glorious past.
Speech at the Annual Meeting of the
Speakers’ Union, Dyal Singh College
Lahore, March 5, 1936
I feel myself among kindred spirits. This College does not believe in any creed and I, too, feel that the salvation of India lies in the non-sectarian feelings. It was this creed which I had in the past, which I have it present and which I will have in future dearest to my heart. You, Sir, talked of Mussolini and Hitler; we cannot have dictators in India, for a dictator, to be a real one and not in name only, must have the power to punish and the power to reward. He must have an army to back him.
I want you to realize that the only difference between you and me is that I am older than you although I began my life as a dreamer and an idealist like you. Now, when I have gone through almost the whole of it, I have begun to realize the realities.
Imagine, we are thinking of setting up a representative form of Government. What foundation have we for it? If we start from the top it cannot and will not be representative.
Any unscrupulous and unprincipled leader today can exploit the masses of the country at any time he likes as long as he can play to the tune that they understand. Unless, therefore, we get a solid portion of people who are trained and who understand and have the requisite knowledge, at least to select a leader rightly, and say, we will stand by you and support you loyally’, and who should be able to disown him if he goes astray, we cannot have representative Government. Have we one single leader in India or even in one community who can command the wholehearted loyalty and allegiance of the country or the community or even of the intelligentsia? Is there one leader who can speak for you? Let me have that much at least, the very fact that there is a united front which has a man who has the power to speak for them is irresistible.
Speech at All Bengal Muslim Students’ Association Albert Hall — Calcultta,
August 17, 1936
We are aiming at the solidarity of the Muslims not with a view to quarrel with our sister
communities, but in order to weed out the bad elements that exist in our midst.
We want to produce independent, progressive and fearless men who will work sincerely for the country, and when we have done that, we mean to make as great a contribution to the freedom of our motherland as any other community. You have among you elements and coteries which must be overpowered. Those who misrepresent us will not succeed; those who bless us, we thank them; those who sympathies with us, we appreciate their sympathy; but those who obstruct us and put difficulties in our way we shall resist them.
The Hindu and Muslim students should make friends and understand and tolerate one another. That was the only certain way to build up the nation. There was no doubt that the burden of the onward march for the freedom of the motherland would fall on
you Show a better example to your elders who
were quarrelling over petty matters. Students should come under one organization irrespective of castes and communities The students might help in many ways those who were doing some good work.
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