An excerpt from a book I will be publishing soon-Where Have All The Young Men Gone?The author is the aristocratic and flamboyant Col Nisar Ansari who reveals the inside story of Hyderabad through his witty anecdotes-sparing neither Gandhiji nor Jinnah! The architect of Partition with the burning desire to carve out a separate Islamic Nation was Mr Mohammed Ali Jinnah, ostensibly a learned and highly educated Indian Muslim who was fighting for a separate Islamic Nation named ‘Pakistan’ (The Land of the Pure) to be governed by the tenets of the Holy Quran and edicts of Islamic jurisprudence . This was just a diabolical stratagem to satisfy his selfish desire to seize power and deny the Congress Party its legitimate place in the history of Independent India. Jinnah was not a true Muslim of the fundamental Muslim faith of Sunni sect. He belonged to Khoja Muslims of Bombay and Gujarat engaged in business and trade who were not considered as The Faithful by the orthodox Islamic clergy of Saudi Arabia where the Holy of the Holiest Mosque of Kaba was built by Prophet Mohammed(Peace be Upon him). Mr Jinnah exhorted leading Muslim intellectuals, jurists, educationists and professionals to migrate to Pakistan as a matter of ‘Islamic duty’. He instilled fear in the minds of Indian Muslims that the Hindu majority will always discriminate against them on account of their religion and will never allow them to prosper. Unfortunately, many leading Muslims fell prey to his propaganda and migrated to Pakistan to rue their fate later as second class citizens called ‘Mohajjirs’ (refugees) vis-à-vis the native-born Punjabi and Sindhi population of West Pakistan. But, my Father and uncles rejected this prophecy of doom and stayed back in India, the country of our forefathers. Of course, my Mom outrightly rejected the thought of migrating to Pakistan and told my Father that he can choose either Pakistan or Naomi Ezikiel, not that such an ultimatum was really required. Some 40 years later, My Father was elevated by the Republic of India to the exalted judicial post of Chief Justice of the state of Jammu & Kashmir and later was appointed as Chairman of the All India Minorities Commission at Delhi by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. My Mom was appointed the first woman Justice of the High Court of Kerala where she was born. My Uncle Mr Syed Abdul Quader, IAS (who had married a Hindu lady) became the Chief Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh government. Another Uncle Mr Khairuddin Ansari was promoted to the top post of Regional Provident Fund Commissioner. He was awarded the President’s Medal for meritorius service in the field of welfare of the disabled employees. I was given command of a mechanised infantry regiment of a strike corps of the Indian Army which was a rare honour for a Muslim. My family should be deemed as ungrateful curs if we say that we have been discriminated against by the Indian Union on account of our religion as prophesied by Jinnah in 1947. Of course, a large percentage of Indian Muslims remained below the ‘ Poverty Line’ not because of State Pogroms but due to the narrow outlook of the orthodox Muslim Clergy which prohibited modern job-oriented scientific education outside the cloistered ‘ Madarasas’ (Islamic schools teaching only the Holy Quran) as un-Islamic.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:22:33 +0000
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