In the 1940s, as a colonial India inched closer to her independent future, a part of her was weakened by politics of religion.
Fuelled by the insecurity of Muslims not surviving in a Hindu majority country, the demand of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the All-India Muslim League was finally served when India split into two countries giving way to the formation of Pakistan.
What followed was a blood-soaked partition, an unwanted companion to the road to freedom.
However, there were many Muslims who were against the idea of partition. A partition they believed was unfavourable to the development of people.
As Jinnah stood firm on his demand for Pakistan, hatred against him intensified. Attempts to assassinate Jinnah were carried out several times with no success. Given below is the list of Muslims who never believed in the idea of an all-Muslim nation.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Maulana Abul Kalam Azad with Netaji Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born in Mecca in 1888 to an Indian Muslim father and an Arabic-speaking mother. Azad was a young journalist when he founded Al-Hilal , a Muslim newspaper that spoke against the colonial rulers as well as Indian Muslims who were loyal to the British.
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