What did Allama M-Iqbal say about the foundations
of Muslim milliat?
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Answer:On 14 December 1948, in Karachi, with ample ceremonial pomp, members of the Constituent Assembly mourned Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s sudden death. In their eulogies, the delegates reminisced over Jinnah’s startling life, his unrelenting commitment to shield India’s Muslims from the All India National Congress and his political foresight to establish institutions that could spur his democratic dream for Pakistan. They also generously seasoned their speeches with verses from Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938), a Cambridge-educated barrister with a knack for writing poetry.1 It was Iqbal’s patriotic hymn tarana-e-hind (India’s anthem), full-threadedly chanted by a huge Hindu-Muslim crowd on the eve of independence in 1947, that reassured Gandhi in his belief that “Hindus and Muslims would never resort to the sword for the solution of their difficulties”. Gandhi’s words fell on deaf ears in the thick of an on-going civil war that amplified Pakistan and India’s birth pangs.
Nazir Ahmad Khan of the Muslim League’s conservative wing and a big landowner from West Punjab, sorrowed Jinnah’s death by ascribing borderline mythical qualities to him: “A field marshal amongst privates”, Jinnah was for Khan, “the hero of Carlyle, the super-man of Nietzsche”, and to top it all off Iqbal’s “Marde Momin” (man of faith).