Iqbal drew significant inspiration from the Bolshevik Revolution and Marxism, admiring the revolution’s egalitarian ethos, but remaining firmly rooted in Islamic principles, rejecting both Marxism’s atheistic worldview and fundamentalist interpretations of Islam.
These facts establish that Maulana Azad was an active revolutionary, led Silk Letter Movement during the First World War and the movement was not an Islamic movement and all the Indians were equal partners in this effort.
Nehru: “I do not recognise the British Government in India, and I do not regard this as a court. I regard these proceedings as farce or show. This court carries out what has already been decided.”
“I know you will agree that mental health is in a sense even more important. For mental health, to a large extent, governs physical health.”
For briefly though, the First Prime Minister of India and the First Prime Minister of free India were allies of a sort.
Nehru could be saved by the brave effort of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan when he threw himself over Nehru and took injuries on himself. Khan received fractures in two of his fingers, serious injuries in nose, skull and shoulder and had to be admitted in the hospital.
“History also proves that whenever a Mohammedan sovereign assumed the title of Caliph his Caliphate extended only to the extent of his dominions and his subjects. A country beyond the range of his government had nothing to do with his Caliphate, Imamate and Sultanate.”
“I have used the word nation several times in this Anjuman. By this I do not mean Muslims only. In my opinion all men are one and I do not like religion, community or group to be identified with a nation.”
“The sects called Wahabees and Bidaties are bitter enemies, that their feelings towards one another are as bitter as were those of the Roman Catholics towards the Protestants in the days of the Reformation.”
