Pakistan that we shall not brook it any longer. They have misrepresented the whole ideology of Islam to you. They are in fact enemies of Islam while posing as friends and supporters of Islam.
Sir, my honorable friend said that according to these people, the Muslims will not offer their Juma Prayers if there was a non-Muslim as the head of the State. Well, Sir, till yesterday-when I say yesterday I am only talking figuratively-we had non-Muslim rulers here. Were not the Muslims offering prayers? Were they not offering Juma Prayers? Can you say they have never offered Juma Prayers in this country? How can, then, anybody come to you and how easily you get taken in by a statement of this kind?
Mr. Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya: They did not tell me. I mentioned Dudu Mea's party whose grandson is Pir Badshah Mea.
The Honourable Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan: Supposing there are some maniaces in this country or amongst the Mussalmans, are you going to be guided by what they say or are you going to be guided by what a vast majority Mussalmans believe in? If my friend wants that we should succeed in persuading every Mussalman in Pakistan to think in the same way on every matter. Well that is a task which is not possible for any organization or leader of any people to do.
Sir, my Honorable friend said that you have talked of equality and again he has been misled by these so-called Ulemas because according to these people there can tie no equality. I am really surprised that a man of his ripe experience should really be taken is so easily and should put it all his belief in what these two people have told him and not believe in what we and men like Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Osmani have been telling him about Islam. Sir, as I said when you have made up your mind it is very difficult to try and convince you.
Sir, my friend said that these people told him that in an Islamic State that means a State which is established in accordance with this Resolution no non-Muslim can be the head of the administration. This is absolutely wrong. A non-Muslim can be the head of administration under a constitutional government with limited authority that is given under the constitution to a person or an institution in that particular State. So here again these people have indeed misled him.
Sir, my Honorable friend's last peroration I very much regret. But for the fact that I have great regard for him and a belief that whatever he says is out of sincerity I would have said it was a most mischievous statement to have been made by any responsible citizen of Pakistan. He has interpreted the Resolution in a most undesirable manner. He has by his remarks told the non-Muslims here that if this Resolution is passed there is no place for them in Pakistan. This, Sir, as I said is not the type of statement that one would expect from one who professes to be a true and real Pakistani, Sir let me tell my Honorable friend that the greatest guarantee that the non-Muslims can have, they will get only through this Resolution and through no other manner and therefore I would request him not to be misled by interested persons and do not think, for a moment that this Resolution is really intended, or will really result. In driving out the non-Muslims from Pakistan or reducing them to the position of-as he described-hewers of wood and
