salam,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwOyErnP8-Y    Quaid e Azam on Muslim Identity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w64KF6ZUG2E  Freedom for Palestine, InshALLAH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpIigTPoEFI   Dr. Israr on khilafat and Quaid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tVWwFcmr0&feature=related  amazing speech by Jinnah

 
http://www.cobrapost.com/documents/JinnahSecularist.htm

(The above link mostly suggests him as a secular but some points may come handy)

Jinnah and Islam

http://nazariapak.info/quaid/resdocs/jinnah_and_islam.asp

Some quotes by Jinnah

http://www.quotes.pk/quotes-by-author/muhammad-ali-jinnah-quotes/

An interesting read
http://groups.google.com.pk/group/paknationalists/web/jinnah-secular-or-islamist

Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/a/ahmed-jinnah.html

Message of condolence on the death of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Calcutta,

April 21, 1938

The Star of India, April 22, 1938

Mr. M. A. Jinnah issued the following condolence message on the death of Allama Iqbal:

I am extremely sorry to hear the sad news of the death of Sir Muhammad Iqbal. He was a
remarkable poet of world wide fame and his work will live for ever. His services to his country and
the Muslims are so numerous that his record can be compared with that of the greatest Indian
that ever lived. He was an ex-President of the All-India Muslim League and a President of the
Provincial Muslim League of the Punjab till the very recent time when his unforeseen illness
compelled him to resign. But he was the staunchest and the most loyal champion of the policy and
programme of the All-India Muslim League.

To me he was a friend, guide and philosopher and during the darkest moments through which the
Muslim League had to go, he stood like a rock and never flinched one single moment and as a
result just only three days ago he must have read of been informed of the complete unity that
was achieved in Calcutta of the Muslim leaders of the Punjab and today I can say with pride that
the Muslims of Punjab are wholeheartedly with the League and have come under the flag of the
All-India Muslim League, which must have been a matter of greatest satisfaction to him. In the
achievement of this unity Sir Muhammad Iqbal played a most signal part. My sincerest and
deepest sympathy go out to his family at this moment in their bereavement in losing him, and it is
a terrible loss to India and the Muslims particularly at this juncture.

Reported Speech at a public meeting to mourn the death of Allama

Iqbal, Calcutta, April 21, 1938

The Star of India, April 22, 1938

Mr. M. A. Jinnah said that the sorrowful news of the death of Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal had
plunged the world of Islam in gloom mourning. Sir Iqbal was undoubtedly one of the greatest
poets, philosophers and seers of humanity of all times. He took a prominent part in the politics of
the country and in the intellectual and cultural reconstruction of the Islamic world. His
contribution to the literature and thought of the world will live for ever.

"To me he was a personal friend, philosopher and guide and as such the main source of my
inspiration and spiritual support. While he was ailing in his bed it was he who as the President of
the Punjab Provincial Muslim League, stood single-handed as a rock in the darkest days in the
Punjab by the side of the League banner, undaunted by the opposition of the whole world. When
on account of his serious illness he was confined to bed, he resigned the post of the Presidentship
of the Punjab League but was instead elected its Patron. He still continued to guide the work of
the Punjab League from his bed and had somebody to reply to all letters concerning the League.
It would have been a matter of great satisfaction for him to hear the news with great delight that
the Bengal and Punjab Muslims were absolutely united on the sommon platform of the All-India
Muslim League. In that achievement the unseen contribution of Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal was the
greatest. No greater blow has struck the Muslims at this juncture."

Presidential Address, 26th Annual Session of the All-India Muslim

League, Patna, December 26, 1938

Speeches, Statements and Messages of the Quaid-e-Azam, Vol.II, p.906

Quaid-i-Azam made the following comments extempore during his presidential address:

Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal's death is an irrepairable loss to Muslim India. He was a personal friend
of mine and composer of the finest poetry in the world. He will live as long as Islam will live. His
noble poetry interprets the true aspirations of the Muslims of India. It will remain an inspiration
for us and for generations after us."

Comment made after the passage of Lahore Resolution, March 23, 1940

Jinnah, Creator of Pakistan by Hector Bolitho (London, 1954), p.129

Sometime after this meeting, Jinnah turned to Matlub Saiyid, who had been present at the Lahore
session, and said:

Iqbal is no more amongst us, but had he been alive he would have been happy to know that we
did exactly what he wanted us to do.

Reported presidential speech in Iqbal Day meeting, Lahore, March 25,

1940

The Civil & Military Gazette,  March 26, 1940

If I live to see ideal of a Muslim State being achieved in India and I were then offered to make a
choice between the works of Iqbal and the rulership of the Muslim state, I would prefer the
former.

This view was expressed by Mr. M. A. Jinnah presiding over the second session of the "Iqbal Day"
held in the University Hall, Lahore.

Continuing, Mr. Jinnah said that in April 1936, he thought of transforming the Muslim League,
which was then only an academical institution, into a parliament of the Muslims of India. From
that time to the end of his life, he continued, Iqbal stood like a rock by him.

Iqbal, Mr. Jinnah said, was not only a great poet who had a permanent place in the history of the
world's best literature, he was a dynamic personality who, during his life time, made the greatest
contribution towards rousing and developing of Muslim national consciousness. He compared Iqbal
with great literary figures of England like Milton and Shelley.

Reported speech in Iqbal Day meeting, Lahore, March 3, 1941

The Civil & Military Gazette, March 4, 1941

Iqbal was described by various speakers not only as one of the greatest poets of the world, but
also a political prophet who first visualised the ideal of a separate Muslim State in India, at the
celebrations in connection with the Iqbal Day held in the University Hall, Lahore, under the
auspices of the University Union.

Paying his tribute to the memory of the poet, Mr. M. A. Jinnah said:

The message of Iqbal has reached the farthest corners of the world. He was the greatest
interpreter of Islam in modern times.

"I have had the privelege and opportunity," he added, "of being associated with him. I have never
found a more true and more loyal colleague than him."
Mr. Jinnah exhorted Muslim youth to understand the spirit of Iqbal's message. This, he said, would
show them their goal. "Iqbal is goig to live for ever. The coming generations will look upon him as
the greatest benefactors of Muslims."

Letter sent on Iqbal Day, Hyderabad (Deccan), August 9, 1941

Facsimile included in Discourses of Iqbal  by Shahid Hussain Razzaqi (1979/2003), Iqbal

Academy Pakistan, Lahore

State Guest House

Hyderabad Dn
9th August 1941

Every great movement has a philosopher and Iqbal was the philosopher of the National
Renaissance of Muslim India. He in his works has left an exhaustive and most valuable legacy
behind him and a message not only for the Musalmans but for all other nations of the world.

Iqbal was a poet who inspired Muslims with the spirit and determination to restore to Islam its
former glory and although he is no more with us, his memory will grow younger and younger with
the progress and development of Muslim India.

His works should therefore, be read and digested by every Musalman to create solidarity, and we
should all try to organise the Muslims throughout India economically, educationall, socially and
politically.

M. A. Jinnah

Shahid Hussain Razzaqi, Esq,

Ghazipura,
Gulberga - Deccan

Message on Iqbal Day, Lahore, March 20, 1943

The Dawn, March 21, 1943

The following message has been issued by Mr. M. A. Jinnah on the occasion of celebration of Iqbal
Day:

"Dare and Live" is Iqbal's message. Optimism, industry, faith, self-confidence and courage are the
principles on which Iqbal bases his philosophy and which he believes are the essential factors for
the purification of human soul and for the elevation of human character. The obstacles and
setbacks in life, according to him, make the life worth living. The sacrifices and losses, made and
incurred in the service of a right cause nd for noble principles elevates a nation and makes life
more glorious and worth living.

Iqbal never believed in failure. he believed in the superiority of mankind over all the rest that God
created. In fact he was convinced that man is a collection of all that is best in God's universe.
Only man does not know himself. Man has but to utilize his great potentialities and to use them in
the right direction for the realization of that "self" which finds itself so near to God; and Islam is
the code which has prescribed easy ways and means for that realization.

Iqbal was not only a philosopher but also a practical politician. He was one of the first to conceive
of the feasibility of the division of India on national lines as the only solution of India's political
problem. He was one of the most powerful though tacit precursors and heralds of the modern
political evolution of Muslim India.

Iqbal, therefore, rises above the average philosopher, as the essence of his teachings is a
beautiful blend of thought and action. He combines in himself the idealism of a poet and the
realism of a man who took practical view of things. In Iqbal this compromise is essentially Islamic.
In fact it is nothing but Islam. His ideal therefore is life according to the teachings of Islam with a
motto "Dare and Live."

I wholeheartedly associate myself with the efforts of the Iqbal Day Committee in celebrating the
Poet's Day on his birthday and I hope and pray that every one of us may be able to live up to the
ideals Iqbal preached by his beautiful national poems and which have now embedded the doctrine
of Pakistan into the heart and soul of Muslim India which is now burning very brightly, never to be
extinguished.

Reported message to the Frontier Muslim Students Federation on Iqbal

Day, Karachi, June 20, 1943

The Morning News, June 24, 1943

"It is a source of great encouragement to me that our people in your province have started to
organize themselves. Strengthening yourself, really speaking, means strengthening borders of
Pakistan, a thing which will enable us to achieve our goal and thus maintain our freedom, honor,
prestige and glory of Islam for which we are now fighting," says Mr. M. A. Jinnah in the course of
a message to the Frontier Muslim Students' Federation under whose auspices the Iqbal Day was
celebrated.

Message on Iqbal Day being celebrated at Lahore, New Delhi, December

8, 1944

The Dawn,  December 11, 1944

To the cherished memory of our National Poet Iqbal, I pay my homage on this day, which is being
celebrated in commemoration of that great poet, sage, philosopher and thinker, and I pray to God
Almighty that his soul may rest in eternal peace. Amen!

Though he is not amongst us, his verse, immortal as it is, is always there to guide us and to
inspire us. His poetry, besides being beautiful in form and sweet in language, presents to us a
picture of the mind and heart of this great poet, and we find how deeply he was devoted to the
teachings of Islam. He was a true and faithful follower of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), a
Muslim first and a Muslim last. He was the interpreter and voice of Islam.
Iqbal was not merely a preacher and philosopher. He stood for courage and action, perseverance
and self-reliance, and above all faith in God and devotion to Islam. In his person were combined
the idealism of the poet and the realism of the man who takes a practical view of things. Faith in
God and unceasing and untiring action is the essence of his message. And in this he emerges truly
Islam. He had an unflinching faith in Islamic principles, and success in life meant to him the
realization of one's "self", and to achieve this end the only means was to follow the teachings of
Islam. His message to himanity is action and realization of one's self.

Although a great poet and philosopher he was no less a practical politician. With his firm
conviction and faith in the ideals of Islam, he was one of the few who originally thought over the
feasibility of carving out of India such an Islamic state in the North-West and North-East Zones
which are historical homelands of Muslims.

I wholeheartedly associate myself with the celebrations of this "Iqbal Day", and pray that we may
live up to the ideals preached by our National Poet so that we may be able to achieve and give a
practical shape to these ideals in our sovereign state of Pakistan when established.

Message on Iqbal Day, New Delhi, March 30, 1946

The Dawn, March 31, 1946

Iqbal voiced the ideals and aspirations of Muslim India. He made great contribution by his poems
and prose to the political awakening and stirring up of the soul of Muslims of India. I wish the
Iqbal Day every success.

Source: Pakistan As Visualized by Iqbal and Jinah. Selected and Compiled by Prof. Dr. G. H.

Zulfiqar

“I am glad that you are going to attend the Palestine Conference and the
Bengal Muslim Conference. Please give my message to the Musalmaans
of Bengal that they should stand by the All-India Muslim League and its
policy and program which is in the best interest not only of the
Musalmaans but the country as a whole. I am sure that the Musalmaans
of Bengal will stand solid by the Arabs of Palestine who have been most
grievously wronged from the very inception of the mandatory power
having been imposed upon them and in iniquitous Balfour Declaration
and lastly the unjust and unwarranted attempt that is sought to be
made to partition Palestine as suggested by the Royal Commission which
must lead to their destruction. I am sure I am echoing the feelings and
the sentiments of the Musalmaans o India and Bengal when I say that
we stand by the brave struggle that is being carried on by the Arabs of
Palestine for the independence and freedom of their country and that we
will do all that we ca in their struggle to help them in resisting their
enemies who wish to destroy their legitimate aspirations for the freedom
of their country. I appeal to the Musalmaans of Bengal to organize and
establish solidarity and unity amongst the Musalmaans of India as they
represent more than one-third of the Musalmaans all over the country
and it is up to them to give an earnest lead to the rest of Musalmaans. I
wish both the Conference and you all success”
Letter from M. A. Jinnah to Maulana Shaukat Ali, 21 September
1937
 
“May I now turn and refer to the question of Palestine. It has moved
Musalmaans all over India most deeply. The whole policy of the British
government has been a betrayal of the Arabs from its very inception.
Fullest advantage has been taken of their trusting nature. Great Britain
has dishonored her proclamation to the Arabs which had guaranteed to
them complete independence of the Arab homelands, and the formation
of an Arab confederation under the stress of the Great War. After having
utilized them, by giving them false promises, they (the British) installed
themselves as the mandatory power with that infamous Balfour
Declaration, which was obviously irreconcilable and incapable of
simultaneous executions, and having pursued the policy to find national
home for the Jews, Great Britain now proposes to partition Palestine,
and the Royal Commission’s recommendation completes the tragedy,
and if given effect to, must necessarily lead to the complete ruination
and destruction of every legitimate aspiration of the Arabs in their
homeland; and now we are asked to look at the realities. But who
created this situation? It has been the handiwork and brought about
sedulously by the British statesmen. The League of Nations has, it
seems, and let us hope, not approved of the Royal Commission’s scheme
and a fresh examination may take place. But is it a real effort intended
to give Arabs their due? May I point out to Great Britain that this
question of Palestine, if not fairly and squarely met, boldly and
courageously decided, is going to be the turning pointing the history of
the British Empire. I am sure I am speaking not only of the Musalmaans
of India but of the world, all sections of right thinking and fair-minded
people will agree when I say that Great Britain will be digging its grave if
she fails to honor her original proclamation, promises and intentions –
pre-war and even post-war – which were so unequivocally expressed to
the Arabs and the world at large. I find that a very tense feeling of
excitement has been created and the British Government, out of sheet
desperation, are resorting to repressive measures and ruthlessly dealing
with the public opinion of the Arabs in Palestine. The Muslims of India
will stand solidly and will help the Arabs in every way they can in their
brave and just struggle that they are carrying on against all odds. May I
send a message on behalf of All-India Muslim League of cheer, courage,
and determination in their just cause and struggle, which I am sure they
will win through.”
Extract from M. A. Jinnah’s Presidential Address at the Lucknow
Session of the All India Muslim League 15-18Oct 1937

Incredible letters give amazing insight into thinking of Iqbal and quaid and state of Indian Muslims
and Hindu zionist plans at that time. These are must reads for all core group. I have tried to
highlight the imp passages. Till 1937, ML was only an elitist party and Iqbal was turning it into a
mass movement guiding Quaid and Muslims. He talks about Islamic principles of social justice and
also suggest that India cannot accept social democracy as then Hindu caste system would
demolish and so would Hinduism :) Civl war was very close .  In 1937 British thought that division
of India would take 25 years :)))) Then the Miracle happened :) Iqbal even suggested the venue
of Pakistan resolution in Lahore giving deep political reasons for it. Mashallah amzing really.
clearly suggests that it was actually Iqbal who was controlling and guiding Jinnah and Muslims
Mashalah  

Source: G. Allana, Pakistan Movement Historical Documents (Karachi:

Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, nd [1969]), pp. 129-
133. A few long paragraphs have been broken into shorter ones. All editorial
annotations in square brackets are by FWP.
Two letters from Iqbal to Jinnah (1937)
28th May, 1937

My dear Mr. Jinnah,

Thank you so much for your letter which reached me in due course. I am glad to hear that you
will bear in mind what I wrote to you about the changes in the constitution and programme of the
League. I have no doubt that you fully realise the gravity of the situation as far as Muslim India is
concerned. The League will have to finally decide whether it will remain a body representing the
upper classes of Indian Muslims or Muslim masses who have so far, with good reason, no interest
in it. Personally I believe that a political organisation which gives no promise of improving the lot
of the average Muslim cannot attract our masses.

Under the new constitution the higher posts go to the sons of [the] upper classes; the smaller go
to the friends or relatives of the ministers. In other matters too our political institutions have
never thought of improving the lot of Muslims generally. The problem of bread is becoming more
and more acute. The Muslim has begun to feel that he has been going down and down during the
last 200 years. Ordinarily he believes that his poverty is due to Hindu money-lending or
capitalism. The perception that equality [is (?)] due to foreign rule has not yet fully come to him.
But it is bound to come. The atheistic socialism of Jawahar Lal [Nehru] is not likely to receive
much response from the Muslims. The question therefore is: how is it possible to solve the
problem of Muslim poverty? And the whole future of the League depends on the League's activity
to solve this question. If the League can give no such promises I am sure the Muslim masses will
remain indifferent to it as before.

Happily there is a solution in the enforcement of the Law of Islam and its further development in
the light of modern ideas. After a long and careful study of Islamic Law I have come to the
conclusion that if this system of Law is properly understood and applied, at last the right to
subsistence is secured to every body. But the enforcement and development of the Shariat of
Islam is impossible in this country without a free Muslim state or states. This has been my honest
conviction for many years and I still believe this to be the only way to solve the problem of bread
for Muslims as well as to secure a peaceful India.

If such a thing is impossible in India the only other alternative is a civil war which as a matter of
fact has been going on for some time in the shape of Hindu Muslim riots. I fear that in certain
parts of the country, e.g. N.W. India, Palestine may be repeated..Also the insertion of Jawarhar
Lal's socialism into the body-politic of Hinduism is likely to cause much bloodshed among the
Hindus themselves. The issue between social democracy and Brahmanism is not dissimilar to the
one between Brahmanism and Buddhism. Whether the fate of socialism will be the same as the
fate of Buddhism in India I cannot say. But it is clear to my mind that if Hinduism accepts social
democracy it must necessarily cease to be Hinduism.

For Islam the acceptance of social democracy in some suitable form and consistent with the legal
pnncp!es of Islam is not a revolution but a return to the original punty of Islam. The modern
problems therefore are far more easy to solve for the Musllms than for the Hindus. But as I have
said above in order to make it possible for Muslim India to solve the problems it is necessary to
redistribute the coun.ry and to provde one or more Muslim states with absolute majorities. Don't
you think that the time for such a demand has already arrived? Perhaps this is the best reply you
can give to the atheistic socialism of Jawahar Lal Nehru.

Anyhow I have given you my own thoughts in the hope that you will give them serious
consideration either in your address or in the discussions of the coming session of the League.
Muslim India hopes that at this serious juncture your genius will discover some way out of our
present difficulties.

Yours Sincerely,
(Sd.) Mohammad. Iqbal

P.S. On the subject-matter of this letter I intended to write to you a long and open letter in the
press. But on further consideration I felt that the present moment was not suitable for such a
step.
Private and Confidential
Lahore
June 21st, 1937

My dear Mr. Jinnah,

Thank you so much for your letter which I received yesterday. I know you are a busy man; but I
do hope you won't mind my writing to you so often, as you are the only Muslim in India today
to whom the community has a right to look up for safe guidance through the storm
which is coming to NorthWest India and perhaps to the whole of India. I tell you that we are
actually living in a state of civil war which, but for the police and military, would become
universal in no time.

During the last few months there has been a series of Hindu-Muslim riots in India. In North-West
India alone there have been at least three riots during the last three months and at least four
cases of vilification of the Prophet by Hindus and Sikhs. In each of these four cases, the vilifier has
been murdered. There have also been cases of burning of the Qur'an in Sind. I have carefully
studied the whole situation and believe that the real cause of these events is nither religious nor
economic. It is purely political. I.e., the desire of the Sikhs and Hindus to intimidate Muslims even
in the Muslim majority provinces. And the new constitution is such that even in the Muslim
majority provinces, the Muslims are made entirely dependent on non-Muslims.

The result is that the Muslim Ministry can take no proper action and are even driven to do
injustice to Musiims partly to please those on whom they depend, and partly to show that they are
absolutely impartial. Thus it is clear that we have our specific reasons to reject this constitution. It
seems to me that the new constitution is devised only to placate the Hindus. In the Hindu
majority provinces, the Hindus have of course absolute majorities, and can ignore Muslims
altogether. In Muslim majority provinces, the Muslims are made entirely dependent on Hindus. I
have no doubt in my mind that this constitution is calculated to do infinite harm to the Indian
Muslims. Apart from this it is no solution of the economic problem which is so acute among
Muslims.

The only thing that the communal award grants to Muslims is the recognition of their political
existence in India. But such a recognition granted to a people whom this constitution does not and
cannot help in solving their problem of poverty can be of no value to them. The Congress.
President has denied the political existence of Muslims in no unmistakable terms. The other Hindu
political body, i.e., the Mahasabha, whom I regard as the real representative of the masses of the
Hindus, has declared more than once that a united Hindu Muslim nation is impossible in India. In
these cirecumstances it is obvious that the only way to a peaceful India is a redistribution of the
country on the lines of racial, religious and linguistic affinities. Many British statesmen also realise
this, and the Hindu-Muslim riots which are rapidly coming in the wake of this constitution are sure
further to open their eyes to the real situation in the country. I remember Lord Lothian told me
before I left England that my scheme was the only possible solution of the troubles of India, but
that may take 25 years to come.

Some Muslims in the Punjab are already suggesting the holding of [a] North-West Indian Muslim
Conference, and the idea is rapidly spreading. I agree with you, however, that our community is
not yet sufficiently organised and disciplined and perhaps the time for holding such a conference
is not yet ripe. But I feel that it would be highly advisable for you to indicate in your address at
least the line of action that the Muslims of North-West India would be finally driven to take.

To my mind the new constitution with its idea of a single Indian federation is
completely hopeless. A separate federation of Muslim provinces, reformed on the lines I have
suggested above, is the only course by which we can secure a peaceful India and save Muslims
from the domination of nonMuslims. Why should not the Muslims of North-West India and Bengal
be considered as nations entitled to self-determination just as other nations in India and outside
India are?

Personally I think that the Muslims of North-West India and Bengal ought at present to
ignore Muslim[-minority] provinces. This is the best course to adopt in the interests of both
Muslim majority and minority provinces. It will therefore be better to hold the coming session of
the League in the Punjab, and not in a Muslim minority province. The month of August is bad in
Lahore. I think you should seriously consider the advisability of holding the coming session at
Lahore in the middle of October when the weather is quite good in Lahore. The interest in the
All-India Muslim League is rapidly growing in the Punjab, and the holding of the coming
session in Lahore is likely to give a fresh political awakening to the Punjab Muslims.

Yours sincerely,
(Sd). Mohammad Iqbal
 Bar-at-Law

JazakAllah for all this info and the other email as well

most important work on Jinnah is Saleena Karims new book, Secular Jinnah, what the nation needs
to know. i suggest everyone get hold of that book and read it its a must read.

thanks,

salam,

if you have it, scan it and send it to us.. we will upload it on BT website

i only have hard copy, the pakistan edition of the book is still not released, should be released soon.