| The All India Muslim League held its session in Lahore | | | | expression could be that history is a back swing for a |
| on 23 March 1940, in which the famous Lahore | | | | stroke played into the future.Choose whichever axiom |
| Resolution, since then called the 'Pakistan Resolution' | | | | you like. But do realize that we must learn from past |
| was adopted. The resolution read as | | | | experience. Be it the Pakistan Resolution printed |
| under:RESOLVED that it is the considered view of this | | | | alongside, be it the 1906 address presented to Viceroy |
| session of the All India Muslim League that no | | | | Minto, reproduced on the next page, or be it the |
| Constitutional Plan would be workable in this country or | | | | memorandum presented to prime minister Manmohan |
| acceptable to Muslims, unless it is designed on the | | | | Singh, highlighted on page 5, a common vein runs |
| following basic principle, namely, the geographically | | | | through them all. That the Muslims, the children of Allah |
| contiguous units are demarcated into regions which | | | | the Merciful, and all members of the ummah are a |
| should be so constituted, with such territorial | | | | distinct people and therefore not prepared to integrate |
| readjustments as may be necessary, that the areas in | | | | themselves with the rest of the nation. Do not think |
| which the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in | | | | that they are just another minority like Christians or |
| the North Western and Eastern Zones of India, should | | | | Parsees who happily coexist with all their |
| be grouped to constitute 'independent states', in which | | | | countrymen.The Christians do not have a separate |
| the constituent units shall be autonomous and | | | | political party in India. They have never considered |
| sovereign.It has always been taken for granted | | | | themselves to be a separate nation. They do not claim |
| mistakenly that the Musalmaans are a minority. The | | | | that religion is above the nation. They do not claim that |
| Musalmaans are not a minority. The Musalmaans are a | | | | their God, the father of Lord Jesus, is the only god.For |
| nation by any definition. What the military Government | | | | the Muslims, there is no God other than Allah. Those |
| of India for 150 years has failed to achieve cannot be | | | | who do not accept Allah are kafirs and who should be |
| realized by the imposition of Central Federal | | | | converted to Islam or exterminated. Jehad is the |
| Government except by means of armed force. The | | | | instrument of such eradication. For a Muslim to flourish |
| problem in India is not of an inter-communal character | | | | as a momin or a faithful, he needs to live in a darul |
| but manifestly of an international one and it must be | | | | Islam. If for any reason, he has no hope of converting |
| treated as such. The Hindus and Muslims belong to | | | | the country of his residence into a land of Islam, he |
| two different civilizations which are based mainly on | | | | should undertake a hijrat or emigration to another |
| conflicting ideas and conceptions. To yoke together | | | | homeland. Those Muslims who did not migrate to |
| two such nations under a single state, one as a | | | | Pakistan cherish the hope of converting Hindustan into |
| numerical minority and the other as a majority, must | | | | an Islamistan. Those of them who do not cherish this |
| lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any | | | | hope, are not quite true to Allah and should be treated |
| fabric that may be so built up for the government of | | | | as apostates. This is a message of the Holy Quran. It |
| such a state.History repeats itself is an old adage. | | | | is for you to register the message. If you do not, you |
| Another way of putting the same wisdom would be | | | | risk the future of your civilisation. |
| that history is the obverse of vision. Yet a third | | | | |