This is simply false. Jinnah was alive when the committee to draft the objectives resolution was selected. That is a fact. Your saying it is not does not change it.
It is also a fact that Jinnah did select religious scholars to advise the committee and that some people on said committee were religious scholars themselves. Maulana Osmani is credited with the drafting of the resolution.
It is also a fact that Jinnah selected Zafarul Haq, an Ahmadi, to sit on the panel. That would be a more suitable argument to make if you wanted to suggest that Jinnah did not want an Islamic republic. But this would be flawed because his inclusion in the panel was to safeguard the interests of the minorities.
From the Jinnah reader that
@Neelo linked-
http://jinnahsociety.org.pk/
Jinnah on the type of state that he wanted pg1-
1) democracy
2) Islamic in nature
3) no theocracy
4) protection of minorities
Notice this is exactly what the objectives resolution laid out.
“The Constitution of Pakistan has yet to be framed by the Pakistan Constituent Assembly,
I do not know what the ultimate shape of this constitution is going to be but I am sure that it will be of a
democratic type, embodying the essential principles of Islam. Today, they are as applicable in actual life as they were 1,300 years ago, Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy. It has taught equality of men, justice and fairplay to everybody. We are the inheritors of these glorious traditions ... as framers of the future constitution of Pakistan. In any case, Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State—to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non- Muslims Hindus, Christians, and Parsis but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan.”
Here is Jinnah on y’all being oh so proud of your ethnic identities and making your ethnicities important. Jinnah trashes ethnic centrism for Muslim identity.
Jinnah reader pg 9:-
“SO what is the use of saying, ‘We are Bengalis, or Sindhis, or Pathans, or Punjabis.’ No, we are Muslims.
Islam has taught us this and I think you will agree with me that, whatever else you may be and whatever you are, you are a Muslim. You belong to a nation now; you have now carved out a territory, vast territory; it is all yours; it
does not belong to a Punjabi or a Sindhi, or a Pathan, or a Bengali; it is yours. ...
Provincialism has been one of the curses; and so is sectionalism— Shia, Sunni, etc.
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Now I ask you to get rid of this provincialism because, as long as you allow this poison to remain in the body politic of Pakistan, believe me, you will never be a strong nation and you will never be able to achieve what I wish we could achieve.”
It is you that wants Pakistan to persist in this failed experiment of being a haven for secular liberal elites like yourselves instead of letting it be a true Islamic republic that is the will of the people. Your kind are responsible for its failure, not our educated and religious middle class kind.
Also
@Neelo you need to clarify what the heck you mean by saying that a republic based on Islamic republic is simply a Muslim republic. How so?
If Jinnah, the lawyer, who was always impeccable with his diction, wanted to advocate merely for a republic that would be majority Muslim, he would never have said that he wanted a constitution based on Islamic principles (his actual words). Wanting Islamic principles, a state based on teachings of Islam, makes the state by definition an Islamic republic, not merely a Muslim republic.
I am not the one putting words in his mouth. Y’all are.
