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October 04, 1939
Mashriqi writes the following letter to the Viceroy of India:
“My imprisonment and that of hundreds of prominent Khaksars by the
United Provinces Government and their intention to crush the Khaksar Movement
need not detain me further from announcing our attitude towards the war. I consider
bargaining even with an enemy in trouble mean and unmanly. Moslem character
forbids it. Islam prohibited double dealing. England is now engaged in struggle
involving life and death and most certainly India’s future also…We must prove to
the British again that we Musalmans are the actual defenders of India and therefore,
we, above all, have natural, also inheritary, right to control it. BLOOD AND RULE
HAVE ALWAYS GONE TOGETHER IN ALL HISTORY…”
Source: Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi: Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period Mashriqi's birth to 1947--ISBN 0976033305. pp. 73-74
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A Letter from Vellore Jail (1941)
Allama Mashriqi wrote a letter from Jail (1941) to Dr. Rafiq Ahmed Khan (Khaksar) of Aligarh Muslim University informing him:
“My last days are nearing. It will be alright if I receive a reply and I am released. Otherwise I am going to die…I am not going to change my decision nor do I repent for it. I am happy because I am going to lay down my life…” At the conclusion of his letter, he stated, “Again gird up your loins. Do not let my face be blackened. Save the honour of Islam…We will all return home happily, else my dead body will reach you”
Source: Allama Mashriqi & Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan: Two Legends of Pakistan. page 193.
Author: Nasim Yousaf.
ISBN:
Hard Cover: 1401090974
Soft Cover: 1401090966
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March 23, 1942
Mashriqi sends the following telegram to Sir Stafford Cripps:
“The British Government have sent you to rectify the wrongs and to
reconciliate and secure the co- operation of India at this late hour. I put before you
the unparalleled tyranny of the Government on the Khaksars and ask redemption. I
committed the crime of offering to the Viceroy on October 6, 1939, when every
political party was irreconcilably hostile, 50,000 Khaksars unconditionally for the
defence of India to the last drop of their blood and of also publishing a pamphlet
exhorting everybody to help the British to the utmost. The result was that the
pamphlet was confiscated, I was jailed, the organisation was banned, 2,000
Khaksars were arrested, forty Khaksars were murdered in cold blood, my house
where women inmates observed purdah [conservative way of life for women,
consisting of dress covering full body and no interaction with men outside
immediate family], was thrice raided, my eldest son aged sixteen years was jailed,
my women and children were thus thrown to winds, my other son aged thirteen
years was murdered, my entire money amounting to several lakhs of rupees was
confiscated, my family of twelve persons was starved, my daughter was refused
dowry, I was forced to pay Rs. 1,000 towards personal expenses in jail, I was
threatened with lashes and was locked, tortured and kicked by the Superintendent
and was solitarily confined, even smoking was disallowed, my servants were
removed during the fast, my invalid pension of Rs. 300 a month which was in
arrears and amounted to Rs. 12,000 was confiscated, my wife, children, brother and
friends were not allowed to interview me—until after twenty-two months’ detention
without trial I secured my release on death-bed after fasting for 80 days, and I am
still ordered to remain in Madras till a settlement.
Can you hope to reconciliate India or secure her co-operation when your
men commit such wrongs on persons of my position? I have now offered the
Government most accommodating terms of a settlement, as prearranged, but I am
getting evasive reprimands in reply. My case is explained chronologically in the
following communications:—April 1, 1940 (ten pages), May 18, 1940 (two pages
with enclosures), May 24 (Telegram to the Viceroy), June 23 (three pages), August
23 (to the Viceroy, three pages), December 7 (to the Viceroy, six pages), May 14,
1941 (five pages), July 22 (nineteen pages), February 12, 1942 (three pages), March
16 (four pages).
Immediate lifting of the ban and release of the prisoners is essential to
removal of extreme bitterness throughout India, as also adequate recognition of the
political importance of the Khaksars in any future constitution. Considering the
terrible price paid for showing unconditional practical loyalty, I now join the
Muslim League, the Congress and the Mahasabha in most emphatically demanding
complete independence for India.”
Source: Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi: Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period Mashriqi's birth to 1947--ISBN 0976033305. p. 234
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April 03, 1942
The Khaksar Tehrik officially rejects the Sir Stafford Cripps proposals.
Mashriqi sends telegrams to Quaid-e-Azam, Abul Kalam Azad, Mahatma Gandhi,
Jawaharlal Nehru, Veer D. Savarkar, and Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramiyya. The telegrams state:
“Khaksar organization rejects Cripps’ proposals in entirety, considers them
meaningless, unreal, while enemy actually India’s doors unless every party is
unhesitatingly and fully armed in order to defend India utmost, also unless an Indian
Defence Minister, capable of galvanizing India utmost, is immediately appointed.”
Source: Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi: Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period Mashriqi's birth to 1947--ISBN 0976033305. p.235
Also see:The Radiance (Aligarh), February 06, 1943, p.11
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April 11, 1942
Allama Mashriqi sends the following telegram to the Presidents of the All-India Muslim League, Indian National Congress, and the Hindu Mahasabha:
“Your rejection of the [Sir Stafford] Cripps proposals is the happiest augury to a united and peaceful India. Accept heartiest congratulations. I fully undertake the responsibility of securing by negotiation complete independence for India from the British Government within six months, provided the Congress, the League and the Mahasabha unitedly demand independence now, and of also non-communally organising for the safety of civil population everywhere. I offer immediately half a million Khaksars for service,
irrespective of caste or creed. I have wired similarly to other presidents. Deliberate profoundly. Do not miss this critical opportunity.”
Source: Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi: Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period Mashriqi's birth to 1947--ISBN 0976033305. p.236.
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August 05, 1942
Allama Mashriqi sends the following telegram to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Abul Kalam Azad, Mahatma Gandhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru:
“Beseech God’s sake Mahatma Gandhi settle Quaideazam Jinnah before launching civil disobdience movement. Reaching despite illness and detention. Wait.”
Source: Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi: Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period Mashriqi's birth to 1947--ISBN 0976033305. p.246.
Also see:The Radiance (Aligarh), February 06, 1943, p.21
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May 15, 1944
Mahatma Gandhi's telegram to Mashriqi’s:
“My last year’s request to Qaid-i-Azam Jinnah still stands, and I will be ready to discuss the question of Hindu-Muslim understanding as soon as I get better.”
Source: Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi: Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period Mashriqi's birth to 1947--ISBN 0976033305. p.274.
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