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Jinnah was Secular, Jinnah was Islamist. Jinnah never offered his prayers. These are some most commonly heard statements about Quaid e Azam, even after 133 years of his birth the nation is still dicussing what Jinnah was and whether he really used to offer his prayers which clearly shows where we stand and how much serious we are in following his teachings.
Quaid e Azam has given us the “nation” but we never paid heed on his words. Every warning of Mr. Jinnah, be it governance, law and order, education, they have all come true. He anticipated the problems which the young nation is going to face and gave us a slogan of “Unity, Faith and Discipline “, he knew that all the three pillars are equally important in strengthening the nation but we relied on “Faith” only.
Thus a Faithful yet divided and undisciplined nation have become an undeclared failed state facing suicide bombings on daily basis, bad governance, economic crisis, inflation, terrorism, we feel proud of being Punjabi, Sindhi, Baloch or Pashto but Pakistani.
In such circumstances Pakistan cannot emerge as a nation in its true sense unless its ethnic, linguistic, religious and geographical groups are at peace with each other and perceive the federal system as a fair system of co-existence. Due to our ignorance we have lost East Pakistan and we are still following the same path that leads us no where.
Today I am ashamed of being a part of the generation which is tend to waste Jinnah’s struggle.
We are sorry Quaid e Azam!
Very well said, these few lines are enough to elaborate the current situation and I must say Tanzeel you always come up with a different approach about various events.
PS. Happy Birthday
Pakistan Zindabad.
Nice write-up Tanzeel, instead of understanding his message, we have made his personality controversial.
Happy b’day Quaid-e-Azam.
The Quaid’s message was simple.
Unity , Faith , Discipline.
Unfortunately all three are missing in our people . I seriously don’t know as to where Pakistan would EVER live up to the Quaid’s expectations
Anyways,
Quaid-e-Azam Paindabad
Pakistan Zindabad
Bear in Mind ‘FAITH’ in the country . In each other!
Faith in the country doesn’t make any sense Waleed. Faith is always in God.
Tanzeel:
“Faith is the confident belief or trust in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faith
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Pakistan was an idea. You need to have the trust, the Faith in your country that working for it selfishly would in turn reward you in untold ways!
Not really something which is obsure but which really is just common sense.
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Faith in God on an individual level is alright. But when you talk of a Nation which might have other minorities living in the country , Faith in God would necessarily provide that ‘unity’
If Jinnah talked to Muslims and that too at the time of making of a new country (in the name of Islam) you won’t have vague meanings of Faith but the faith in God. “Eeman” that’s what they have written in Pakistan’s emblem. Do you think they are talking about Eeman (Faith) in country ?
hmmm. going by that he really wanted a theocratic state then and not a secular one as some people say.
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btw was the original ’slogan’ said in urdu or english?
Two Nation theory clearly tells us on what basis he wanted a state. He’d had other plans after creation of Pakistan but the base on which he demanded a country was “religion”
His statement was in In English!
“We are going through fire: the sunshine has yet to come. But I have no doubt that with unity, faith and discipline we will not only remain the fifth largest State in the world but will compare with any nation of the world. Are you prepared to undergo the fire? ….. We are passing through a period of fear, danger and menace. We must have faith, unity and discipline.” [December 28, 1947, quoted in this volume]
Unity, Faith and Discipline,
We love QuaideAzam and we are sorry that we forgot him, we keep his picture in every office but his quotes are ignored!
Happy birthday dear Quaid!
Jinnah was this, Jinnah was that; Tanzeel, you have dealt with this subject in a very nice manner.
We are sorry Quaid-e-Azam!
Happy birth day, Quaid-e-Azam!
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nice write up..
please keep coming up with more such write ups…
its people like you and the youth of the nation which can realise the dream of Jinnah… at least NOW..
We’re sorry, Jinnah Sahib!
Quid e Azam has envisioned Pakistan to be a democratic country where all citizen irrespective of their religion, creed, colour or cast would have equal rights. It is sad that after his untimely death his successors, had put the country on a course of bigotry, hatred, devides and regression. Resppected Quide Azam we are ashamed. basharat.