And if he mentioned two nations he really emphasised that Muslims might remain a nation by ordering their lives according to Quoran and Sunnah and by maintaining their distinctive manners and language and other things. Let them follow the Quoran, let them follow the Sunnah in the right way. No one of the other communities will obstruct them and even no objection will be there from anyside. Let the Hindus and the followers of other faiths also follow their religions in the right way in order to order their life. according to the tenets of their respective religions.
Therefore, Sir, so far as the political life of the people of Pakistan is concerned, from what I have shown, Two-nation Theory has vanished. To stick to that even now is to land us to an absurd position. We are not two nations in the United Nations. We are one Pakistani Nation there. As a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, we are also one Nation. But so far as the question of Electorate is concerned, we are to remain two nations and so, there cannot be Joint Electorate. What would be the effect of this? It would mean that we are to act as one nation when working the Constitution even for giving effect to all Islamic provisions and we are to be known as one nation to the outside world, but that at the base, we are to remain two nations on account of the differences in the faiths that different groups of us profess. This a position, besides affecting our prestige to the outside world, would be fruitful of many evils affecting our life at home. It would be accentuating religious difference to such an extent as will be detrimental to the very best interests of Pakistan by making the non-Muslims to remain a perpetual minority and a subordinate political entity. The people are to be welded into one nation and to merge together, work together for the upliftment of Pakistan. But, Sir. we feel that creation of such compartments, as Separate Electorate means, would tend to do would grievously hamper it.
Now, Sir, many of my friends have said many things by which they have imputed some motives to us. Of course, Sir, I can very well reply to those in the same way as they have done. But I submit that I will not do so. I submit, Sir, that the imputation of motives is the weakest part of an argument. I can hit back with a greater show of reasons. But I will not do that. Yet I would like to submit one matter which may supply a cue to the claim for Separate Electorate. Now, Sir, there is one Moulana-I mean Maulana Maududi who toured East Pakistan and preached for Separate Electorate. He said that Pakistan would be destroyed if Joint Electorate was accepted. He bas written a book in which he has given fantastic ideas. He had mentioned in the book that non-Muslims in Pakistan have no right to be placed in responsible positions and even women have no right to be so placed. If the women are to be given any right to be elected for legislatures then there should be a Separate Assembly for them so that in that Assembly they might discuss matlers which affect them. They might discuss also other matters and submit their decisions to the men's Assembly. There is another paragraph in which he has said that the Separate Electorate for minorities is the only thing, as by giving to them Separate Electorate, the minority will never be placed in a responsible position and the result will be that in order to get that right they will gradually become Muslims. That is the statement in the book. If any friend of mine wants to see that, I can show it. So, if you impute motive we can also say that, the claim for Separate Electorate is motivated by the same motive as that of Moulana Moududi. It is said that if Joint Electorate is given,
