Dispassionate Disection of Indian Politics from a Non-party point of view:
Where Leaders Fail
An Address by Allama Mashriqi
Delivered at the University Institute Hall, Calcutta on 21st October, 1945, with a discussion on the AGREED CONSTITUTION OF FREE INDIA prepared under the auspices of the Khaksar Organisation [ Khaksar Tehreek] with the agreement of over three hundred million people of India
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“Hindus, Muslims and other Brethren of Calcutta and Bengal! At this moment the failure of Leaders’ Conference at Simla, after the unsuccessful talks of the two political leaders Messrs. Jinnah and Gandhi in the September of last year, has cast a fresh gloom and created a spirit of deep frustration and bitterness from one corner of India to the other, and everyday the political Hindu is angry with the political Mussulman and the political Mussulman angry with the political Hindu that the question of freedom of India is being spoiled by the opposing party. The British Government had put down the one and solitary condition of freedom of India to the effect that Indians should ‘frame a Constitution agreed by the main elements of India’s national life’ and had explained that ‘the object of putting forward this condition was to ensure the fulfillment of the duty of the British Government to safeguard the interest of the racial minorities, i.e., (the Anglo-Indians, Europeans, etc.), the religious minorities (i.e., the Mussulmans, the Christians, the Sikhs, the Parsees, the Jains, the Budhs, etc., etc.) the Depressed classes minorities, and lastly the Treaty obligation of the Indian States.’ Under this circumstances the first and foremost duty of the leaders of the two great communities was to fulfil this condition, but the politics of this unfortunate country in the eyes of political parties in the country is that the personal prejudices and pet politics of the political parties are a thousand times more important than the question of Freedom of India..."
Full text of the speech is available in Appendix V of the book entitled, "Hidden Facts Behind British India's Freedom: A Scholarly Look into Allama Mashraqi and Quaid-e-Azam's Political Conflict".Author: Nasim Yousaf, Year 2007, ISBN-10: 0976033380, ISBN-13: 978-0976033387.
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Public address at Patna
On May 14, 1947, in a public meeting in Patna, Mashraqi made an extremely important observation in front of 50,000 people who came to listen to his address. Mashraqi said:
“…Peaceful transfer of power handed over to men who have been trained in British way of thinking will bring nothing but worse form of British Raj again. This Raj will be ten times more tyrannical, more deformed, more ghastly, more imperialistic and non-Indian than even the worst form of British Raj. It will, in fact, be a travesty of all truths and a parody of every good or bad thing that the British have given to India during the past 100 years. It will be, in fact, an anarchy in order, a stereo-typed tyranny, and a confusion worst confounded. It will be a perpetual reign of Atom Bomb and Rule of Terror. It will be regalised genocide and state killings. It will justify murder of children in mothers’ wombs, wholesale destruction of all cultures, suppression of all true History, murder of Philosophy, total wiping out of honourable traditions, and wholesale slaughter of ideas. Handing over power to one or many political parties in India would mean a rule of worse imperialism, worse capitalism, worse halakuism than all the History has yet produced. It will, in fact, be British Raj without British traditions. It will be a reign of ‘Hell on Earth’. It will decimate the beautiful culture of Asia, the beautiful code of Asiatic Moral Laws, the beautiful philosophy of Peace and Tolerance, in fact the beautiful Fundamental Truths that Asia has ever given to Mankind during the last 5000 years…The present plan of transfer of power, to my mind, is the Diabolical Plan of the relentless rule of Birla, Brahmin and Khan Bahadur Raj where arrogance, money and tyranny will rule rather than human beings.
The last remedy under the present circumstances is that one and all rise against this conspiracy as one man. Let there be a common Hindu-Muslim Revolution in which not hundreds but millions will lose their lives by the bullets of Birla and the British. Millions will die, no doubt, in this way but hundreds of millions will be saved forever. If man has decided to kill man for sheer lust of power and with nothing to show to the world except tyranny and loot, it is time that we should sacrifice men in millions now in order to uphold Truth, Honour and Justice.”
Sources:
1) Al-Islah (Lahore), May 23, 1947.
2) Syed Shabbir Hussain, Al-Mashriqi: The Disowned Genius, Jang Publishers (Pakistan), pp. 227-228.
3) Nasim Yousaf, Hidden Facts Behind British India's Freedom: A Scholarly Look into Allama Mashraqi and Quaid-e-Azam's Political Conflict, AMZ Publications (USA), pp. 247-248.
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Public address at Lahore
In 1956, addressing a public meeting at Minto Park, Lahore, Mashriqi made a prediction in regards to the future of Pakistan. An excerpt from his prediction is found below:
“Ye Muslims! Today from this platform I sound you a warning. Listen carefully and ponder. Sometime in the future, probably in 1970, you will be confronted with a perilous situation. In 1970—I see it clearly—the nation will be stormed from all sides. The internal situation would have deteriorated gravely. A panic of widespread bloodshed will sweep the nation. The frenzy of racial and provincial prejudices will grip the whole country. Zindabad and murdabad will defean your ears. Plans will be initiated to dismember the country. Take it from me that in 1970, Pakistan will be plagued with a grave threat to its sovereignty. You might actually lose it if the reigns of the country were not in the hands of courageous and unrelenting leadership.
India will, in that grave situation, try to take advantage of your internal turmoil and devour you. Or, the governance of the country will fall in the hands of spineless self-seekers or self-centred opportunists who might on their own accord push you into the Indian lap. I warn you about 1970. I warn you to prepare from now to face the situation which will emerge in that year. . .”
Sources:
1) Syed Shabbir Hussain, Al-Mashriqi: The Disowned Genius, Jang Publishers (Pakistan), pp.256-257.
2) Nasim Yousaf, Allama Mashriqi & Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan: Two Legends of Pakistan, pp. 65-66.
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Mashraqi's Address: Lyallpur (now Faisalabad) November, 21, 1949)
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Mashraqi's Address: Gujranwala (Oct., 27, 1950) & Multan (Oct., 29, 1950)
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