The basic ambiguity

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Pakistan meant different things for different people, an ambiguity Jinnah not only didn’t solve but may also have contributed to. Compare the two statements:

1.       “You will find that in the course of time, Muslims will cease to be Muslims and Hindus will cease to be Hindus, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual,  but in the political sense, as citizens of the state. “ (August 11, 1947. Jinnah’s presidential address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.)

2.       I cant understand this feeling of nervousness that the Future of the constitution of Pakistan is going to be in conflict with shariah law. There is one section of the people who keep on impressing everybody that the future constitution of Pakistan should be based on the shariah. The other section deliberately wants to create mischief and agitate that the Shariah Law must be scrapped. (Dawn, 26 Jan 1948) (Address to Sindh Bar Association on 25 Jan 1948. )