Letters from Allama Iqbal toQuaid-e-Azam · 23rd May, 1936 Dear Mr. Jinnah, Thank you so much for your letter which I received a momentago. I am glad to see that your work is progressing. I do hope that the Punjab parties-speciallythe Ahrar and the Ittihad Millat-will eventually, after some bickering, join you. A very enthusiastic and active member of the Ittihad told me so a few days ago. About M. Zafar Ali Khan the Ittihad people do not themselves feel sure. However there is plenty of time yet, and we shall soon see how the electorate generally feels about the Ittihad sending their men to the Assembly. Hoping you are well and looking forward to meeting you. Yours sincerely, (Sd.) Mohammad Iqbal .............................................................................................................................. Lahore9th June, 1936 My dear Mr. Jinnah, I am sending you my draft. Also a cutting from the Eastern Times of yesterday. This is a letter from an Intelligent Pleaderof Guradspur. I hope the statement issued by the Board will fully argue the whole scheme and will meet all the objection is so far advancedagainst it. It must frankly state as present position of the IndianMuliins as regards both the Government and the Hindus. It must warn the Muslims of India that unless the present scheme is adopted the Muslims will lose all that they have gained duringthe last 15 years and will seriously harm, and in fact, shatter their own solidarity withtheir own hands. Yours etc., (Sd.) Mohammad Iqbal p.s. Will feel much obliged if you send the statement to me before it is sent to the press. Another point which should be brought out in the statement is as follows: 1. Indirect election to the Central Assembly has made it absolutely essential that Muslim representatives returned to theProvincial Assemblies should be bound by an All-India Muslim policy and programme so that they should return to the Central Assembly only those Muslims who would be pledged tosupport the specific Muslim questions connected with the Central subjects and arising out of their position as the Second great nation of India. Those whoare now for Provincial policies and programme were themselves instrumental in getting in direct elections for the Central Assembly introducedinto the constitution obviously because this suited a foreign Government. Now when the community wants to make the best use of this misfortune (i.e indirect elections) by proposing an all-India scheme of elections (e.g. League scheme) to be adhered to by the Provincial candidates the same men, again,at the instance of a foreign Government have come out to defeat the community in their effort to retain its solidarity as a nation. 2. Question of Wakf Law arising out of Shahidganj, culture, language, mosque and personal law. Private and Confidential, Lahore
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