As recorded in Isha’at Habibullah’s autobiography Raja Mohammad Amir Ahmad once said the Pakistan would be an Islamic state to which Quaid-i-Azam responded by saying, “Did you realize that there are over seventy sects and differences of opinion regarding the Islamic faith, and if what Raja was suggesting was to be followed, the consequences would be a struggle of religious opinion from the very inception of the state leading to its very dissolution.†Mr Jinnah banged his hands on the table and said: “We shall not be an Islamic State, but a liberal, democratic Muslim State.†He certainly wanted to check sectarian menace that we confront to day.
As recorded in Isha’at Habibullah’s autobiography Raja Mohammad Amir Ahmad once said the Pakistan would be an Islamic state to which Quaid-i-Azam responded by saying, “Did you realize that there are over seventy sects and differences of opinion regarding the Islamic faith, and if what Raja was suggesting was to be followed, the consequences would be a struggle of religious opinion from the very inception of the state leading to its very dissolution.†Mr Jinnah banged his hands on the table and said: “We shall not be an Islamic State, but a liberal, democratic Muslim State.†He certainly wanted to check sectarian menace that we confront to day.