Today was born the mortal in the beginning of the last quarter of the last century, who was destined to acquire the dimensions of immortality by fathering a new country with a new name. His name was Mohammad Ali Jinnah, but as long as the country he fathered exists on the map of the world, he will be remembered as Quaid-i-Azam–the Great Leader.
It is my faith, and the faith of millions and millions of my fellow countrymen that the country the Great Leader founded is destined to grace the world map as long as there is a single human, breathing under the sun and on the earth.
Meaning thereby that Pakistan is preordained to play a central role in the reemergence of Islam as a key political force in the world. The statement that I want to make here may not please the flag-bearers of secularism — those who propagate that the Quaid had in mind a state on the pattern of the secular states of the West. When the Quaid in June 1947 declared in New Dehli that Pakistan would be a model state of social justice as envisioned by Islam, he forever defined the Islamic character of Pakistan.
The so-called secularists who are infact products of loose morality and immoral permissiveness, take pains to interpret the much- talked-about speech of the Quaid on the 11th of August 1947 as a living testimony to his secular beliefs, but they need to be told that the Quaid in principle was only repeating what the Founder of Islam (PBUH) had declared in the Charter of Madina and in his last great sermon as the guiding features of an Islamic Society.
Had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been a secularist, he would not have been venerated by this nation as Quaid-i-Azam.
Pakistan today finds itself caught up in a stormy crisis of self-doubt—- accentuated by the moral deprivation of its ruling class. But, let us stick to our faith that this crisis too (like all previous crises) will be overcome, and before long this nation of destiny will break into an era of self-belief and self-assertion under an inspired leadership.
Pakistan, Inshallah, will soon find itself on the path its founder prescribed for it.
25-12-2010
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