Founding Muslim leaders of Pakistan had no love for Islam

 How is it that most of the Muslim League leaders, who were responsible for the formation of Pakistan, were not opposed to British rule in India, were womanisers of the top order and regular drinkers of wine? Interestingly, they had no love for Islam or Islamic tradition. They married women of different religions and had them converted to Islam either after marriage or just before. Take the example of Aga Khan III; he had several European wives, including Cleope Teresa Mahliano and Andre Carron. He was a Shia Muslim.

The real founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was also not a Sunni Muslim. His grandfather was a Hindu. He married a Persian girl, whose daughter again returned to the original religion. He had diabolical hatred for the followers of Islam. Once, while addressing a meeting at Azad Maidan in Bombay, he looked for the journalists, and when he could see none, he expressed his indignation by saying that he was going to make Pakistan not with the support of idiots and Maulvis, but by the publicity he was getting in the newspapers. He once said that Pakistan was created by him, his stenographer and his typewriter. He was well versed in English but had contempt for Urdu, which he considered to be the language of cooks and servants.

Similarly, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, married a Christian woman, Sheila Irene Pant, although she was his second wife. The first wife was Jehangira Begum, whom he married in 1918, the year he graduated from Aligarh Muslim University. The ideological father of Pakistan, Allama Iqbal, was a Kashmiri Brahmin. It is also strange that most of the rich and Shia Muslims who fought for Pakistan did not go to the country they helped carve out of India. The Raja of Mahmudabad of Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, a Shia, was the treasurer of the Muslim League and had opened his treasury for Pakistan. His progeny came back to India to claim the property; however, thanks to the government, a law was passed to declare his property as enemy property, which was ultimately taken over by the government. To everyone's surprise, his son, Mohammad Amir Khan, was a two-term former Congress MLA from Mahmudabad and a popular figure in the Avadh region of Uttar Pradesh. Most often, he is remembered for fighting a prolonged court battle after the government seized his property under the Enemy Property Act. His property included Butler Palace, a big part of Hazrat Ganj, Halwasiya market, and Mahmudabad Qila (fort) -- all of these worth several thousand crore rupees. Besides Lucknow, the Mahmudabad estate’s holdings were spread over Sitapur, Nainital and Mahmudabad.

There is, therefore, a need to study the communal Muslims, and a campaign should be started under the leadership of Arya Samaj to bring them back to Hinduism and bring about a lasting solution to the communal problems. In fact, a large number of Muslims in Pakistan, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh can be convinced to return to their original fold.