RANA LATIF/KHALID MALIK
LAHORE – Speakers at a function held in connection with the 132nd birthday of Allama Muhammad Iqbal on Monday said Iqbal gave the message of hope and to rise from the present subservient status to become a self-reliant and self-respecting nation, which should be capable of leading the Muslims world with qualities of determination, self-accountability, reformation, knowledge and research.
They also called for following Iqbal as his thoughts were derived from the Holy Quran that was the final divine script for guidance of mankind.
Ex-Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad presided over the gathering, which was organised by Nazria Pakistan Trust (NPT) in collaboration with Tehrik-e-Pakistan Workers Trust at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan, while Chairman NPT Majid Nizami, PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal, Prof Fateh Mohammad Malik, Bushra Rehman MNA, Dr Rafique Ahmad, Prof Dr Akram Ikram Shah and Allama Ahmed Ali Kasuri.
Speaking at the function, Qazi Hussain urged the people to have faith in Allah and devote their lives to the Holy Prophet (PBUH). He also listed study of Quran and jihad as the yardsticks with which the believers could overcome their individual and collective odds and rise as a determined strong nation. He said the believers, however, discarded the true path and went into oblivion. “We have to break the shackles of America that has occupied us and must safeguard Pakistan like a mosque.”
Qazi said Pakistan without Iqbal was nothing. It was for that reason some hidden hands were conspiring to establish that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was secular and were quoting his 11th August 1948 speech to prove their notion in which he had assured the minorities of full protection, he added.
Referring to such elements, he went on to say that they forgot about equality and justice for every citizen was also guaranteed in the Constitution according to the vision great Quaid, adding that Quaid was being interpreted erroneously as dozens of other speeches had been forgotten in which Quaid had mentioned Islam and Quran being the guiding force of the polity. “Quaid wanted Pakistan as an Islamic, democratic and welfare state,” he remarked.
He also pointed to the conspiracies against the two-nation theory to keep people away from Iqbal’s thoughts. Accusing the country’s leadership of insincerity, he said the rulers wanted to alienate the citizens from the path prescribed by Iqbal and the Quaid.
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