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Originally Posted by Ahmed_2007_Cool
The same man also said this, not to any radio but to the Constituent Assembly of his new state:
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
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Jinnah was not infallible. In fact, he was a politician who knew his audience very well. He sometimes called for Shariah Law and then during other times, he said very clearly that Pakistan will not be a theocratic (Shariah) state. He contradicted himself many times and that's why there are still people who think he helped create Pakistan so that it can be a absolutist theocracy. |
This is accusation leveled against Quaid-e-Azam by those who don't know Islam very well, contrary to Quaid-e-Azam.
Islam is not a theocracy. There were no Aalim certificates distributed among the Khulafah nor was there a select group of Ulema who formed a theocracy in an Islamic State.
Secondly, Islamic does not regulate the religion (set of beliefs) of even Muslims, example, in the last known caliphate, i.e. the Ottoman Caliphate, people of the Madahibs (religion) of Maliki, shafai and Hambali existed even though the Ottomons themselves were Hanafi. Of course there were jews, christians etc who also lived in that caliphate and none of them were harassed in respect of their religion.
The Islamic state regulates and governs the social life of a human being, not his religious life.
Hence, you see Quaid telling the constituent assembly that everyone was free to go their places of worship and state would not interfere in their Madhab.
Thus, Quaid never contradicted himself. People today are not just as knowledgeable as Quaid was.