Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 175
Mahzarnama 175 completely different from those of the Ahle Sunnah wa al- Jama'ah. For instance, as the Sikhs are an offshoot of the Hindus, but they are no longer Hindus; or the Protestants of England are an offshoot of the Roman Catholics but they themselves are not Roman Catholic. Similarly, the Deobandi sect is an offshoot of Ahle Sunnah wal Jama'ah but they are not a part of Ahle Sunnah wal Jama'ah. The principle exponents of the minority-sect of Deobandis are: Mufti Muhammad Shafee, Maulana Sayyed Sulaiman Nadvi, Maulvi Ehteshaam-ul-Haq, and Mr. Abul Aa'la Maudoodi etc. Since the neglect of the doctrines and rights of the majority amounts to an insult to the democratic principles, therefore the following demands are put forward by the Majority: 1. The section dealing with the principle that the Head of this Islamic State of Pakistan will have to be a Muslim, must also incorporate, as an inevitable condition, that he will hold the same beliefs as those of the aforesaid Majority, 2. The Deobandi sect must be formally declared as an entity separate from the Ahle Sunnah wal Jama'ah, and 3. Interference by the Deobandi sect, in the doctrines and practices, as well as in the religiously-occupied property (auqaaf), of the Ahle Sunnah wal Jama'ah, must be formally declared to be prohibited under the law of the land. The purpose of the above demands is not to fan the flames of religious sectarianism in Pakistan. Instead, our purpose is: to eradicate the sectarian violence from Pakistan, forever; to safeguard the Majority, and communicte its viewpoint. Because history bears eloquent testimony to the fact that, during the reign of Henry VIII, some of his favourite Protestant padres posed themselves as Roman Catholic and sang paeons of praise of the Heavenly Kingdom and Christiandom for the advancement of the Roman Catholic dogma and then, through the due process of the