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"Give up the idea of Shia, Sunni, Wahabi. Unity should be our watchword. Some say we are Punjabis and others say that they are Bengalis or Delhiwallas. Such [an] attitude is baneful to Muslims. We are but servants of Islam." Muhammad Ali Jinnah, New Delhi, 3 November 1946. https://twitter.com/Rizwow/status/1305383110423576578
"Give up the idea of Shia, Sunni, Wahabi. Unity should be our watchword. Some say we are Punjabis and others say that they are Bengalis or Delhiwallas. Such [an] attitude is baneful to Muslims. We are but servants of Islam." Muhammad Ali Jinnah, New Delhi, 3 November 1946. https://twitter.com/Rizwow/status/1305383110423576578
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"The Muslim League is not going to tolerate or allow anyone to create disruption among Mussalmans by asking them to organize themselves separately into castes or tribes. We recognize no one as a Jat or a Pathan or even as a Shia or a Sunni. We can't tolerate..
"The Muslim League is not going to tolerate or allow anyone to create disruption among Mussalmans by asking them to organize themselves separately into castes or tribes. We recognize no one as a Jat or a Pathan or even as a Shia or a Sunni. We can't tolerate..
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..any such caste being created and encouraged because it will not be possible to retain Pakistan if those distinctions were allowed. These castes are responsible for the slavery of India." Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Lahore, 19 March 1944.
..any such caste being created and encouraged because it will not be possible to retain Pakistan if those distinctions were allowed. These castes are responsible for the slavery of India." Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Lahore, 19 March 1944.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah stock answer to a query about his sect was:
"Was Muhammad (P.B.U.H) the prophet a Shia or a Sunni?"
Quaid-e-Azam won't describe himself as neither a Shia nor a Sunni.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah stock answer to a query about his sect was:
"Was Muhammad (P.B.U.H) the prophet a Shia or a Sunni?"
Quaid-e-Azam won't describe himself as neither a Shia nor a Sunni.
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Jinnah's speeches and behavior also provide ample proof that he was neither Shia nor Sunni and that he thoroughly disapproved of sectarian division.
Dr. Safdar Mahmood has made an interesting observation for example that a Sunni alim performed the ceremony of Ruttie Petit's..
Jinnah's speeches and behavior also provide ample proof that he was neither Shia nor Sunni and that he thoroughly disapproved of sectarian division.
Dr. Safdar Mahmood has made an interesting observation for example that a Sunni alim performed the ceremony of Ruttie Petit's..
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..conversion to Islam, yet a Shia alim performed the couple's wedding ceremony a few days later. Dr. Mahmood concludes: 'It may be easily surmised that Jinnah was above sectarianism'.
But in Jinnah's case, establishing his 'sect' is not only futile but irrelevant...
..conversion to Islam, yet a Shia alim performed the couple's wedding ceremony a few days later. Dr. Mahmood concludes: 'It may be easily surmised that Jinnah was above sectarianism'.
But in Jinnah's case, establishing his 'sect' is not only futile but irrelevant...
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In fact, the High Court of Sindh ruled in 1970 that certainly by the end of his life he was a Muslim of no sect.
Jinnah became the first person in Pakistan to be legally recognized as a Muslim of no sectarian affiliation, a fact made more remarkable by the fact..
In fact, the High Court of Sindh ruled in 1970 that certainly by the end of his life he was a Muslim of no sect.
Jinnah became the first person in Pakistan to be legally recognized as a Muslim of no sectarian affiliation, a fact made more remarkable by the fact..
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..that he was also the founder of the country. The second person to be recognized as a nonsectarian Muslim was his own sister, Fatima.
..that he was also the founder of the country. The second person to be recognized as a nonsectarian Muslim was his own sister, Fatima.
