AWAKENINGS

Pakistan or the Partition of India by Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Pakistan or the Partition of India by Dr. B.R.Ambedkar is a monumental treatise focusing on many issues faced by Hindus and Muslims. A few passages are extracted here for your reading and the entire book can be read by just clicking the link above.  1.   Language invites re-union ; it does not force it. The United States and England, Spanish America and Spain speak the same languages and do not form single nations.   On the contrary, Switzerland which owes her stability to the fact that she was founded by the assent of her several parts counts three or four languages. In man there is something superior to language —will. ‘The will of Switzerland to be united, in spite of the variety of her languages,' is a much more important fact than a similarity of language, often obtained by persecution . 2.  This first Muslim invasion did not result in a permanent occupation of the country because the Calipha...

Triple Talaq (Three Time Pronouncement of Divorce), Halal Meat (Permissible Meat) and Dar- ul -Islam (House of Islam)/Dar- ul - Harb (House of War) - are all considered to be solemnized by the Holy Quran - a revelation by Allah to Muhammad and also by Hadith - the reports of the words, actions or habits of Prophet Muhammad. Muslims’ adherence and implicit obedience to the tenets as enshrined in these holy scripts are their ultimate aim and goal of their religious life and they are ready to uphold them with all their might, as they feel that any deviations from the Islamic jurisprudence prescribed therein will be against the wishes of Allah and Prophet Muhammad. Hence for Muslims, their religion Islam is paramount important and hence allegiance to any nation other than Islamic rule is not in their blood - they are not secular and do not want to be secular, but, they are proud to be equated as Muslims first and last. Devout Muslims believe that their God Allah is to be accepted a...