The Reminiscences of Zafrulla Khan — Page xv
REMINISCENCES OF SIR MUHAMMAD ZAFRULLA KHAN xv its predecessor, with the artistry of a master mason putting up an edifice of elegance and classical proportions. Reason and logic supplied the solid foundation which convinced the sceptical. The fluency of the language imparted meaning and substance to the argument. His own belief in the rightness of the cause he was upholding taught words to fall into line like soldiers on parade. Dialectics poured out in solid reality, not as florid gestures. His reasoning was not a desire dressed in a little rationality, but the truth presented in its naked splendour. It was essence clothed by thought. He was not a man of brittle loyalties or icy arrogance or empty mime, interested in keeping the part top spinning or in the small change of debate. He was bred in a different stable. He wedded the logic of facts with the logic of disputation and debate with rare skill, and believed in the sovereignty of discussion. If he walked in the sunshine of fortune and fame all his life, he walked demurely, modestly, humbly. The sweet smell of triumph did not ruffle his calm. The foam and froth and the bubble of worldly success neither seduced his self respect, nor corrupted his simplicity, nor poisoned his humanity. Zafrulla worked hard, long, diligently, and selflessly both for his country and for the nationalist movement which created it. We, the Muslims of Pakistan, have thrown him outside the pale of our religion. We should not also cast him out of our memory. A nation which forgets its great men gradually ceases to produce them. " 4 I am proud that I have been able to present the Reminiscences of Sir Zafrulla Khan, with the courtesy of the Columbia University Oral History Department. May Allah accept this humble effort and make it useful for the generations to come. Pervez Perwazi Former Professor, T. I. College, Rabwah, Pakistan Former Visiting Professor at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan Former Professor Research Associate, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Member of the Swedish Writers' Union, Stockholm