Jinnah’s associates in the Khilafat movement- a sampling

Jinnah had no problem having lifelong association with Muslims who had participated in the Khilafat movement. Trust the leftists to omit mentioning that. Gandhi was associated with the Khilafat movement for only 1-2 short years and became Muslims’ enemy foreever afterward for calling off the movement after violence erupted. Trust the leftists to omit mentioning that.

Muslim communalists and leftists key khaney key daanth aur aur dikhaaney key daanth aur. Spare me your liberalism peepul, it is not liberalism, it is liarism.

Sir Abdullah Haroon
http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/11/nat10.htm


Th e chief minister said that Sir Abdullah Haroon was a great leader who had worked hard for the cause of the Muslims of the sub-continent for a separate homeland. His life of continuous struggle starting from a humble beginning to become one of the most successful politicians and businessmen of the sub-continent was a message for the youth of Pakistan to emulate him to attain success in life. He said that he was a man of vision both as a politician and businessman. He had taken an active part in the Khilafat Movement and later worked hard to organise Muslim League in Sindh.

http://www.punjabilok.com/misc/freedom/freedom_fig hter_from_pakistan2.htm

A leading Businessman and a distinguished philanthropist, Sir Abdullah Haroon, in the words of the Quaid-e-Azam, was one of the strongest pillars of the Muslim League.

He was born in Karachi and began his career as a merchant in 1896. In 1901, he became interested in politics. In 1917 he joined the Congress and participated in the Civil Disobedience and Khilafat movements. From 1919 to 1923, he was president of the Sindh provincial Khilafat Committe. His brains and wealth brought about the publication of "Al Waheed" (1920), a newspaper promoting ideas of independence.

Sir Abdullah Haroon presided over the seventh Sindh Provincial Conference (1920) and remained the president of the Sindh Provincial Muslim League from 1920 to 1930. He played host to Bi Amman -- the revered mother of the Ali Brothers -- in 1921 [ when they were being tried in Khaliq Deena Hall, Karachi]. In 1923 he became a member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly [Sindh was part of Bombay Province]. He demanded a separate provincial status for SIndh in the Muslim Conference at Aligarh (1925) and in the Leaders’ Conference at Dehli (1926). Between 1926 and 1942 he was elected thrice to the membership of the Central Legislative Assembly. He was president of the All India Khilafat Committee for 1927-28 and attended the 1928 All Parties Conference as a member. In 1930 he attended the all India Muslim Conference.

In 1930 he formed the Sindh United Party on the pattern of the Punjab Unionist Party but his party could not win the 1936 elections; it succeeded, however, in 1938.

In 1938 he organized the Muslim League in Sindh. He was the man who piloted the partition of India resolution in the Sindh Provincial Muslim League Conference in October 1938 under the presidentship of the Quaid-i-Azam. Sir Abdullah Haroon presided over the Punjab Muslim Students’ Conference at Faisalabad in 1941. He donated ten thousand rupees to the League at Allahabad in 1942.

He was very active in social welfare projects throughout his life.


http://www.opf.org.pk/almanac/P/peronpoli.htm
Abdul Rab Nishtar
Nishtar had ample opportunity to observe the political developments then taking place in India. It was the outbreak of the Khilafat Movement that made him concentrate whole-heartedly on politics...His first poem, composed in 1919, illustrates the significance of the Khilafat Movement.

(Abdul Rab Nishtar was one of the 4 primary representatives of Muslim League during the Cabinet Mission Plan discussion and member of the Interim Government- sadna)

MIAN MAHMOOD ALI KASURI (1910- )

Mian Mahmood Ali Kasuri was born in 1910 to an educated family of Kasur. His father, Maulana Abdul Qadir Kasuri was a lawyer who held the post of the president of the Punjab congress for 10 years and had also been active in the Khilafat Movement. Mahmood Ali after graduation, took admission at Kings College, Cambridge, for masters in Law and was one of the few Asians to top the successful candidates.

He got back home to discover that the British would not let him practice Law because he had served a year long jail sentence for taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement earlier. Later, they relented and he setup practice in Lahore.

It was at his time that his active interest in politics matured into a life long commitment.

In 1942, he joined the Muslim League. By 1950, he left the party alongwith Mian Iftikharuddin because he felt the party was not doing enough for the people.

Mohammed Ali
Mohammed Ali was a prominent Muslim Leaguer who was a supporter of the Khilafat movement- Jinnah had no trouble associating with him and his positions in the Muslim League:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Mohammad_Ali


Mohammed Ali had attended the founding meeting of the All India Muslim League in Dhaka in 1906, and served as its president in 1918. He remained active in the League till 1928.

Ali represented the Muslim delegation that travelled to England in 1919 in order to convince the British government to influence the Turkish nationalist Mustafa Kemal not to depose the Sultan of Turkey, who was the Caliph of Islam. British rejection of their demands resulted in the formation of the Khilafat committee which directed Muslims all over India to protest and boycott the government.

Now accorded the respectful title of Maulana, Ali formed in 1921, a broad coalition with Muslim nationalists like Maulana Shaukat Ali, Maulana Azad, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari and Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi, who enlisted the support of the Indian National Congress and many thousands of Hindus, who joined the Muslims in a demonstration of unity. Ali also wholeheartedly supported Gandhi’s call for a national civil resistance movement, and inspired many hundreds of protests and strikes all over India. He was arrested by British authorities and imprisoned for two years.


Muslim separatism

Maulana Mohammad Ali was however, disillusioned by the failure of the Khilafat movement and Gandhi’s suspension of civil disobedience in 1922, owing to the Chauri Chaura incident.

He re-started his weekly Hamdard, and left the Congress Party. He opposed the Nehru Report, which was a document proposing constitutional reforms and a dominion status of an independent nation within the British Empire, written by a committee of Hindu and Muslim members of the Congress Party headed by President Motilal Nehru. It was a major protest against the Simon Commission which had arrived in India to propose reforms but containing no Indian nor making any effort to listen to Indian voices.

Mohammad Ali opposed the Nehru Report’s rejection of separate electorates for Muslims, and supported the Fourteen Points of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the League. He became a critic of Gandhi, breaking with fellow Muslim leaders like Maulana Azad, Hakim Ajmal Khan and Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, who continued to support Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.

Ali attended the Round Table Conference to show that only the Muslim League spoke for India’s Muslims. He died soon after the conference in London, on January 4, 1931 and was buried in Jerusalem according to his own wish.


Shaukat Ali
His brother Shaukat Ali was also closely associate with M A Jinnah

http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P0 37
Both brothers, Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali were among the architects of Pakistan’s freedom. Maulana Shaukat Ali, being the elder of the two Ali Brothers, was deeply interested in Islam and totally committed to the cause of freedom movement.

He was born in Rampur and educated at Aligarh. At Aligarh he became the captain of the cricket team and idol of cricket-loving crowds. He served in the provincial civil service of the United Provinces of Oudh and Agra for 17 years, from 1896 to 1913.

He actively assisted Maulana Muhammad Ali in the publication of "Hamdard" and "Comrade" that played a vital role molding the political policy of Muslim India. In 1915 he was imprisoned along with Maulana Mohammad Ali.

In 1919, while he was in jail, he was elected President of the First Khilafat Conference. Upon his release the same year, he was elected Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Central Khilafat Committee. In 1921, he was again imprisoned along with Maulana Muhammad Ali and was released in 1923. He attended the All Parties Conference in Delhi in 1929, and the First and Second Round Table Conferences. He helped organize the World Muslim Conference held at Jerusalem, in 1932.

In 1936 he became a member of the All India Muslim League Council and also of the Muslim League Parliamentary Board. From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly. From 1936 to 1938, he not only helped the Quaid-i-Azam in popularizing the Muslim League at various levels, but also toured Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the United States where he delivered speeches on the Freedom Movement of India and on Islam.

http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/S_0588.HTM
Suhrawardy, Huseyn Shaheed (1892-1963) Prime Minister (provincial Chief Minister was designated as Prime Minister until 1947) of Bengal (1946) and Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956-57). Suhrawardy was an able political organiser. He proved his ability while he had been the general secretary of the Calcutta Khilafat Committee in the 1920s.


Allama Iqbal is said to have supported the Khilafat movement according to Govt of Pakistan website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal




Maulana Hasrat Mohani
http://www.punjabilok.com/misc/freedom/freedom_f ighter_from_pakistan2.htm
An excellent poet, a fearless journalist and a dedicated leader, his real name was Fazl-ul-Hasan. Hasrat was his nom de plume. He was born in Mohan[ U.P] which is reflected in his pen name. He was educated at Fatehpur and Aligarh. He went to Aligarh in 1895 and launched his weekly "Urdu-e-Moalla" from there in 1903. This magazine continued to be published intermittently till 1930. In 1908, the British government took umbrage on a hostile article and sentenced him to four years’ penal servitude. Then began a period of repeated incarcerations which lasted for a number of years.

In 1907 HAsrat attended the Congress session at Surat as an extremist worker; in 1913 he led the agitation against the Kanpur mosque desecration, in 1915 he joined the Muslim League; and in 1916 he was sentenced to four year’s penal servitude for his participation in the alleged "silk scarf movement"[ Reshmee Roomaal Tehreek]. In 1920 he presented his noncooperation resolution in the Khilafat Conference Dehli.

Hasrat was the first Indian leader to demand complete independence for India in All India Khilafat Conference and at the
Ahmadabad[Gujrat] session of the Congress in 1921. The same year he presided over the Ahmadabad Session of the All India Muslim League. In 1928, he led a campaign against Nehru Report. In 1929 he was a delegate to the All Parties Muslim Conference at Dehli. In 1920 he actively participated in Civil Disobedience movement , from 1937 onwards he remained a sincere , devoted, and outspoken member of the Muslim League.

http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9903d&L =pakistan&T=0&F=&S=&P=445
CHAUDRY KHALIQUZZAMAN

He belonged to a landowning family of Avadh( Avadh+Agra = U.P.), and was educated at Lucknow University. He became a very active worker in the Khilafat Movement, was associated with the Congress( party) for some time, then left it to join the Muslim League. leading the Muslim League members in the legislative assembly in U.P. In 1946 he was elected on the Muslim League ticket to the Indian constituent Assembly. After independence he led the Muslim League members in the Indian Constituent Assembly. He migrated to Pakistan in November 1947 and was appointed organizer of the Pakistan Muslim League in 1948 rising to become the president of the party in 1949. However, he resigned after a year. He was the Governor of East Pakistan from April 1953 to April 1954 and later served as ambassador to Indonesia. Chaudhry Sahib’s memoirs "Pathway to Pakistan" are a treasure house of information on the freedom movement.


http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/11/stories/20050 61102261000.htm

There is an impression in some circles that the early Jinnah was non-religious in his political attitude. Jinnah’s stand on the Khilafat issue, which arose in and after World War I, is sometimes cited in support of this view. However, Jinnah was not opposed to the Khilafat issue as such.

On August 27, 1919, Jinnah and three others, sent to Lloyd George, the then British Prime Minister, a representation on behalf of the All-India Muslim League on the Khilafat question. The representation was concerned with the position of the Sultan of Turkey as the Khalifa. The penultimate paragraph of the representation is:

"We need not add that if Great Britain becomes a party in reducing H.I.M. the Sultan of Turkey and the Khalifa of the Muslim world to the status of a petty sovereign, the reaction in India will be colossal and abiding."

The representation was signed by M.A. Jinnah, Hasan Imam, Bhurgari and Yaqub Hasan. (See Pirzada, Syed Sharifuddin,(ed.) Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah’s Correspondence, Revised edition, Karachi, 1977, pp 71-73.)

In his presidential speech at the Calcutta session of the Muslim League in September 1920, Jinnah described the Khilafat issue as one "which we consider, from a purely Musalman point of view, a matter of life and death." (Pirzada, Syed Sharifuddin (ed.), Foundations of Pakistan: All India Muslim League Documents: 1906-1947, Vol 1, p.544).

What Jinnah was opposed to was not the Khilafat cause but mass action. It is the statements expressing that reluctance that are generally cited by some scholars under the mistaken belief that he was opposed to the Khilafat demand itself. "

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