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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ প্রথম খণ্ড
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ethical and spiritual principles?; It has been said that if we permit religion to enter the realm of politics, there may be convulsions, there may be revolutions and wars. It is quite true that sometimes humanity has erred and waged wars on the basis of religion. But is it not a fact that the wars which have been fought in the lifetime of all of us were not fought for religion? I challenge anybody to prove that there was any war that was ever fought in the history of the world for religion which was so disastrous as these wars. Let us not bring such confused thinking into the consideration of this Resolution. Vast convulsions are not caused by faith they are caused by the lack of faith. It is when we de not work within the limits set down by ethics, by religion, by spiritual truth that we really get so narrow-minded, so jealous of the good things that others possess that we enter into the realm of war. I would go even further and say that whenever politics has been completely divorced from ethical principles, the sanction for which lies in our faith and not in anything else, humanity has been overtaken by disaster. I am quite willing to quote chapter and verse that various convulsions that have overtaken humanity have been the result of lack of faith. Was it not that the Goddess of Reason was enshrined at Paris? Is it not a fact that bloodshed came in the wake of her enthronement? Has humanity forgotten the days of Red Terror followed by the White Terror? Therefore, for Heaven's sake, do not confuse matter. Whenever the emotions of people exercised very deeply and whenever these emotions are not controlled by ethical principles which should govern the life of humanity, there has been a disaster. Therefore, Sir, I am afraid, it will not be possible at least for me to describe to the idea that religion and politics should tie completely divorced. If anybody were to say that religious prejudice should not be permitted to effect our relation with humanity, I would certainly say, ‘Yes’.

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 A large number of other arguments have been advanced. It has been said that so far as the fundamental principles of Islam are concerned, they may be as have been explained by the Honorable the Mover of the Resolution, but then it is asked, “How can you guarantee the fact that tomorrow there will not arise interpreters who will interpret these very terms in a different manner” Well, Sir, who can ever guarantee that? Can any constitution of the world guarantee such a thing? So long as you lay down a law, there is always scope for interpretation. Humanly speaking, who can promise that any limits laid down today or any constitution adopted today may not be interpreted in a different manner tomorrow? But we are laying down at least one limit which cannot be provided simply by constitutional methods, and it is this. This constitution may be interpreted, as it will be, by people who come after us. We cannot bind our successors; but these interpretations must at least follow the fundamental principles which have been embodied for anybody to study in our Scriptures. Besides, it is said that simply by bringing in religion and by recognizing the principles of the sovereignty of God, we are laying the foundation of absolute authority. Not only that but we are also accused of laying the foundations of the deification of the State. I am afraid nothing could possibly betray a greater ignorance of the very words of the Preamble. The Preamble recognizes right in the beginning that all authority is delegated through the people to the State and that authority really belongs to God and to none else. If that is so how can a person believing in the existence of God simultaneously believe in the deification of the State?......