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BARABANKI:
(1)
Choudhry Khaliquzzaman,
(Karachi, 1961), p. 336.
8
Pathway
to
Pakistan
12
memoirs.
It
contains
a
couple
of
anecdotes from 1946 that strongly resonated
with me after my conversation with Matin.
Abbasi, who campaigned in 1946 in support
of his brother, begins with a truism most
Muslims
use
when
they
feel
uncharacteristically
sheepish:
Musalman
fitratan jazbati hota hai, A Muslims is by
nature emotional. Then he goes on, At one
place I showed my Muslim audience a picture
of Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah and explained
that Jinnah Sahib had no beard, that he lived
like an Englishman and cared little for namazroza (prayers and fasts). Further, that his wife
had been a Parsi.10 Then I showed them
a picture of Maulana Abulkalam Azad, and
tried to convince them that the Maulana was
a religious scholar held in high regard by
religious scholars all over India. I also said
that in Calcutta, where lacs of Muslim came
together to pray at the Maidan on the two
Eids, it was the Maulana who led the prayers.
Immediately a man stood up and shouted:
Sir, why must you tell us such lies? Why must
you cast slurs on Maulana Jinnah Sahib,
when Ive myself prayed where he was the
imam. Its not a picture of Jinnah Sahib that
you have in your hand; it is of Mr. Abulkalam
Azad. You should repent, sir, repent.
The crowd broke into loud applause, and I was
left blankly staring at the man.11
10
20
Ibid., p. 133.
21
Ibid., p. 134.
Riaz-ur-Rahman Kidwai, Biographical Sketch of
Kidwais of Avadh (Aligarh, 1987), p. 101.
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