that conception is the Holy Quoran, the book of Allah. In illustration, therefore, I am giving the English translation of a verse of the Quoran.
“O. believers do not take the people other than you into confidence in your own affairs, they will have no stone unturned to destroy you, they love. What pains you, their hatred against you has found expression through their mouth and what their heart conceals is much more dangerous; I have shown you the signs if you can understand them.”
There are many other verses in the Quoran which also substantiate and justify the two nation theory on which stands the superstructure of the mighty edifice of Pakistan.
Now I wish to observe that separate Electorate is the living symbol of the Two Nation Theory and the pith and marrow of our political Philosophy. The words of the Quaid-i-Azam will further illustrate this matter. He said, “we (the Hindus and Muslims) are different in everything. We differ in our religion, our civilization and culture, our history, our language, our architecture, music, jurisprudence and laws, our food and our society, our dress-in everyway we are different. We cannot get together only in the ballot box.”
In view of these facts, I say acceptance of Joint Electorate will be tantamount to violating the eternal principles of Islam, subverting the very cause for which Pakistan stands, ignoring the evolutionary history of our political growth and forgetting the struggles and sacrifices undergone by our predecessors to secure for us a place of honour in the comity of nations.
Many of our friends on the treasury bench often endeavored to convince us that secularism and nationalism are the order of the day and a state to be progressive and to keep pace with the dynamic forces of time has no other alternative but to take recourse to these two “isms” as the Summum Bonum or the highest good of political life. Let us, Mr. Speaker, sir. examine this preposition, secularism or laicism may be the guiding principles of that state which had no predetermined or premeditated programme or policy before its emergence. But the case of Pakistan was absolutely different. The policy and programme of Pakistan were chalked out beforehand. Quaid-i-Azam declared:
“Our bedrock and sheet anchor is Islam.” He again said. “Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the muslim ideology, which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which we hope, others will share with us.
These words falling upon a people proned to quick impulses, worked a mighty revolution, solidified the Mussalmans from Cape Camorin to the Himalayas and electrified them to heroic sacrifices and actions. Had secularism been the main idea there would have been no necessity of carving out an independent sovereign state under the name of Pakistan; the undivided Indian Subcontinent would have been wide and spacious enough for the cultivation and materialization of that idea.
So in the face of all these speaking of secular National State and Joint Electorate is tantamount to throwing into oblivion the memories of the great heroes and architects of
