Must there be Pakistan because the Musalmans are a nation?
They are of a peculiar sect of Brahminism, and hate both Hindus and Musalmans.
It is a warning to the Hindus and Musalmans who have professed to love me.
Further, it can be the land of the Musalmans only when it is governed by the Muslims.
Many Musalmans will not even allow me to say that Islam,
as the word implies, is unadulterated peace.
So far as I am concerned the only important question is: Are the Musalmans determined to have Pakistan?
Nobody can deny that there are rites, customs,
and usages based on religion which do divide Hindus and Musalmans.
That being the Canon Law of the Muslims, India cannot be the common motherland of the Hindus and the Musalmans.
But granting that the Musalmans of India are a nation,
is India the only country where there are going to be two nations?
It can be the land of the Musalmans- but it cannot be the land of the‘Hindus and the Musalmans living as equals'.
Another ground on which the Muslim objection to Hindu Raj rests
is that the Hindus are a majority community and the Musalmans are a minority community.
The Hindus and the Musalmans may follow the procedure which Christian missionaries
had set up in early times in order to secure converts from amongst the Hindus.
It is extremely doubtful whether the Nationalist Musalmans have any real community of sentiment,
aim and policy with the Congress which marks them off from the Muslim League.
I hold firmly that, subject to certain conditions,
detailed in the chapters that follow, if the Musalmans are bent on having Pakistan then
it must be conceded to them.
But supposing even that I myself do not kill the cow, is it any part of my duty to make the Musalmans, against his will, to do likewise?
But of what use will it be, if I to-day destroy this mosque, and tomorrow the Musalmans come,
and demolish the great temples and build four mosques in place of one?
The Bakur Manuscript
reports Tipu Sultan as having said:"All Musalmans should unite together,
and considering the annihilation of infidels as a sacred duty, labor to the utmost of their power, to accomplish that subject.
In the midst of the Khilafat agitation,
when the Hindus were doing so much to help the Musalmans, the Muslims did not forget that as compared
with them the Hindus were a low and an inferior race.”.
There were a great number of books there;
and when all these books came under the observation of the Musalmans, they summoned a number of Hindus that they might give
them information respecting the import of those books; but the whole of the Hindus had been killed.