Refutation of the absurd: Quaid Muhammad Ali Jinnah was not a Muslim

[Khushal Khan Khattak]

Refutation of the absurd: Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was not a Muslim



[Quaid Muhammad Ali Jinnah praying with the faithful]


There have been some individuals with ulterior motives who would like to waste the time of many by going into useless debates wasting hours upon hours of precious time.

Such people usually select the weakest and most absurd of accusations to serve:

1) division among brothers both Pakistani and Afghanistani Pushtuns
2) derive gains from this division.

Recently, I was made to feel guilty for having the picture of a man in my avatar. The accusation being:

Your so called founder is not even a Muslim, cause his father's name was Jeenaa, how can a Muslim's name be like that?

OR

He belonged to this and that sect, and we being Hanafis etc etc dont even consider them Muslims.

Here are some quotations and speeches from the same man. His name was Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He liked being called Mohammad Ali.

Deduce from his own words for your own selves what conclusions can be drawn about his:

1) Religious beliefs &
2) His kindness and warm symapthies for Pushtuns.

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Jinnah continued: "Then it seems to me that what I have already said is like throwing water on duck`s back (laughter). When you talk of democracy, I am afraid you have not studied Islam. We learned democracy thirteen centuries ago."

15 July, 1947 press conference.

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“The Khan brothers…have raised another cry that the PCA (Pakistan
Constituent Assembly) will disregard the fundamental principles of the Shari’ah and Qur’anic laws. This, again, is absolutely untrue. More than thirteen centuries have gone by ….. we have not only been proud of our great and Holy Book, the Qur’an, but we have adhered to all these fundamentals all these ages, and now this cry has been raised…[that] we cannot be trusted.??'"

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“I want the Muslims of the Frontier Province clearly to understand that they are Muslims first and Pathans afterwards…".

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According to the Pakistani scholar Ishtiaq Ahmad, there had always been support for the shariah to be found in a few of Jinnah’s pronouncements, as when he promised the Pir of Manki Sharif to enforce the Shariah in exchange for his support for the Muslim League in the 1946 elections.

(Sadly, before he could do realize this vision, being old and suffering from TB, he died soon after the creation of Pakistan. Inna lillah hi wa inna iley hi rajioon)

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Jinnah alluded many times to an Islamic State. For example, in a broadcast address to the people of the United States of America in February 1948 - Jinnah described Pakistan as “the premier Islamic State".

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Mr. Jinnah said: “The Government of Pakistan has no desire whatsoever to interfere in any way with the traditional independence of the Tribal Areas. On the contrary, we feel as a Muslim State [emphasis added], we can always rely on [the] active support and sympathy of the tribes".


31 July, 1947 addressed to the Tribal Areas.

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“In the end, I would appeal to all the different elements in the Frontier Province and in the Tribal Areas to forget past disputes and differences and join hands with the Government of Pakistan in setting up a truly democratic Islamic State.



31 July, 1947 addressed to the Tribal Areas.

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He used similar terminology - referring to Pakistan as a “Muslim State" - in a statement of assurance to the people of Baluchistan.

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“Let us lay the foundations of our democracy on the basis of truly Islamic ideals and principles. Our Almighty has taught us that our decisions in the affairs of the state shall be guided by discussion and consultations."


Sibi Darbar in 1948.

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“… Over half a million Jews have already been accommodated in Jerusalem against the wishes of the people.

May I know which country has accommodated them? I have great sympathy for them and have no ill-will against the Jews but the question is that they have entered Palestine with a set motive to re-conquer Jerusalem with the help of British and American forces. I hope the Jews will not succeed in their nefarious designs and I wish Great Britain and America should keep their hands off from there and then I will see how the Jews Conquer Jerusalem. Every man and woman of Muslim world will die before Jews seize Jerusalem. …. And if such exploitation of small nations is to continue even after this bloody war then let us pray to God to send some more destructive force than the atomic bomb to do the work and job of this world.”


delivering a speech at a meeting held under the auspices of Balochistan Muslim League on October 10, 1945.

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