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When Dr. Zakir Husain was almost killed in riots at Jalandhar in August, 1947

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Saquib Salim #AliGarh, #Delhi, #Jamia, 1947, Congress, Dr. Zakir Husain, Genocide, Hindu Muslim Riots, Jalandhar, jamia millia islamia, Massacre, Partition, President of India, Riots, Saviour, Sikhs, Train, Zakir Husain, Zakir Husain College

(Dr. Zakir Husain (1897-1969) got almost killed in August 1947 at Jalandhar — but for the help he got from

Freedom Fighter Poet Urdu

Rais Amrohvi’s Poetry on Gandhi’s Assassination

January 30, 2020 Saquib Salim #Gandhi, Gandhiji, Jaun Elia, Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Partition, Rais Amrohvi, Shayari, Urdu, Urdu Poetry

Rais Amrohvi (Syed Muhammad Mehedi), was a famous poet of Urdu language and happens to be the elder brother of

Communalism

“The Muslim Problem in India” by CM Naim

January 23, 2020 Saquib Salim #AliGarh, #Gandhi, 1947, AMU, Balraj Madhok, Communalism, Freedom Struggle, Hindu, Hindu Muslim Riots, Hinduism, Hindutva, Islam, Israel, Jamat, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Muslim, Pakistan, Partition, Pogrom, Police Atrocities Azad, Religious fanaticism, Riots, RSS, Urdu, Violence

(The article was originally published in the ‘Quest’, a bimonthly journal published from Mumbai, in 1972. Author, CM Naim, is

Freedom Fighter

When Sardar Patel appealed people not to attack defenceless Muslims

October 29, 2019October 29, 2019 Saquib Salim #Gandhi, Amritsar, Communalism, Iron Man, Nehru, Partition, Patel, Riots, Sardar Patel, Sardar Vallabbbhai Patel, Secularism, Statue of Unity

(Following is the text of the speech made by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in front of a large gathering at Amritsar

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Mahatma Gandhi’s message to the nation on the first Diwali of Independent India (12 November, 1947)

October 24, 2019October 24, 2019 Saquib Salim Diwali, India, Junagadh, Kashmir, Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Partition, Patel, Prayer

(Following is the English translation of Hindi speech addressed to a prayer meeting by Mahatma Gandhi on 12 November, 1947.

Freedom Movement Leader

What Allama Iqbal wrote to Jinnah regarding Nehruvian Socialism : A letter

October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 Saquib Salim Allama Iqbal, India, Iqbal, Islam, Jawaharlal, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jinnah, Nehru, Pakistan, Partition, Socialism

(We are reproducing the text of a letter written to Mr. Jinnah by Sir Muhammad Iqbal in 1937. Social and

Historical Event

The Man Who Invented Pakistan : Choudhry Rahmat Ali

October 20, 2019October 20, 2019 Saquib Salim Choudhry Rahmat Ali, Iqbal, Jinnah, Muslim League, Pakistan, Partition

PAKISTAN has ceased to be a dream and has become reality, but it is still undecided what the word really

Freedom Movement

HINDU-MUSLIM COMRADESHIP : By Maulana Hussain Ahmed Madni

September 25, 2019October 20, 2019 Saquib Salim Deoband, Freedom Movement, Hussain Ahmed Madni, India, Indian Muslims, Jamiat Ulema, Jinnah, Khilafat, Madni, Muslim League, Muslims, Pakistan, Partition

The Muslims have joined hands with the Hindus since the day they adopted India as
their country, and as for myself I have made political and social alliance with the Hindus since I saw the light of the day as I was born and brought up in this very country

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Sir/Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s Presidential Address to the Allahabad Session of the All-India Muslim League in 1930

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Saquib Salim 1930, Address, Allahabad, Allama Iqbal, India, Jinnah, Muhammad Iqbal, Muslim League, Pakistan, Partition, Poet of the East, Shayar-e-mashriq, Two Nation Theory

Islam does not bifurcate the unity of man into an irreconcilable duality of spirit and matter. In Islam God and the universe, spirit and matter, Church and State, are organic to each other. Man is not the citizen of a profane world to be renounced in the interest of a world of spirit situated elsewhere. To Islam, matter is spirit realising itself in space and time.

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Views of Mahatma Gandhi on India’s Independence as told to Wali Khan (son of Badshah Khan)

September 17, 2019October 20, 2019 Saquib Salim Badshah Khan, Communalism, Hindus, Independence, India, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Mahatma Gandhi, Muslims, Pakistan, Partition, Secularism, Wali Khan

“How could I consider it a day of freedom and joy when I had to say goodbye to your father, Badshah Khan, at the Delhi Railway Station. He was my comrade, friend, companion, and fellow freedom fighter, and now that we have attained independence, we are parted. Perhaps we may never see each other. Now you see what joy this independence has brought for me?”