Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 173
Mahzarnama 173 instance, in early-March, 1953, a public poster entitled "Demands" ( Mutaalebaat ) was found posted at all public places in Karachi. It is being reproduced verbatim, as under: Demands as formulated by the Majlis-e-Shura consisting of some Muslim Scholars Deobandi Sect Must be Declared a Separate Minority Sect The Basic Principles of Islamic Government, has merely referred to the rights of Islamic sects in its Section (9) without mentioning any details. The ostensible reason for this "oversight" seems to be to ensure the fulfilment of political aims and objectives behind the creation of the "minority sect" which was born in the days of the British Rule: making it appear as if it were a part and parcel of the majority-sect of Pakistan and thereby having the doctrines of the majority-sect trampled down through their agency. We, therefore, consider it our duty to lay it bare, in unequivocal words, to the Government of Pakistan that khuddaam-e-auliya Allah (servants of the Godly saints) viz. Ahle Sunnah wal- Jama'ah sect constitutes the majority in Pakistan. Its faith and tenets today are the same as the faith and tenets of the Muslim Kingdom of the un-divided India since the days of Shahaab-ud- Din Ghauri to those of Shah Aalam, the King of Delhi. The doctrines of this Muslim Majority of Pakistan are as under: Veneration of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, and a variety of rituals to express this reverence: ceremonial invocation of blessings (eesaal-e-thawaab); ceremonial preparation and consumption of ritual food-items in the name of the deceased Saints and with a view to beseeching them to accept our prayers (nazr neyaaz) on pre-determined dates; celebrating the anniversaries of the saintly figures of Islam on a large-scale, in commemoration of their dates of demise (urs); conducting meetings involving group-recitals of ritualistic blessing on the