The National Security of Indian Muslims — Page 9
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 9 ] benefit of those important people in the country who did not understand Urdu so that they could find out about the position of the Muslims regarding the khil a fat. Then, he said, he would speak in Urdu. The speech made by Maul a n a Muhammad ‘Al i was incomparable. It was not only spoken and delivered well, but also covered the subject matter remarkably. And the state of affairs of the emotions can be judged from the statement that they had no religiously sanc- tioned way left but to emigrate from the country. ( Sar Guzasht, 2nd ed. , p. 107) It was this religious decree that Mah a tm a Gandhi had obtained for the sake of the Muslims. Maul a n a ‘Abdul Maj i d S a lik writes that Maul a n a Muhammad ‘Al i said dur- ing the speech that: Now there is no religiously sanctioned way except to emigrate from this country. We will therefore leave this country and will entrust our homes and our mosques [the word mosque particularly needs to be remembered], and the tombs of our ancestors to our Hindu brethren, until we re-enter this country as conquerors, drive the British out, and take back our trust from our brethren. I am sure that the Hindu brethren with whom we have been living together for one thousand years would not hesitate to provide this service to us. ( Ibid. )