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Sunday 15 April 2012

kareemi research about word Pakistan


Prof. Abdul Hammed Karimi
MAULANA GHULAM HASSAN KAZMI
The primordial User of the Word Pakistan

Homo sapiens, as species all over the plants of ours, do receive as legacy many a shortcoming also from their ancestry. One of these, is the general characteristics of mankind at large, to take matters for granted. It i.e; the mankind has develop the fancy for believing that what its fore-runners pass on it qualifies itself to b treated correct and final. All succeeding generations keep on going room to such ideas and transmitting them to  progenies to come. The process continues as such.
In this lie of the land individuals and societies suffer from not discerning what actually beneath the invisible rocky substance of time lies_______ despite the fact that nothing other than that very entombed in oblivion piece of entity can be named realty there are innumerable matters of this destiny the question of fact in terms of putting the word PAKISTAN in the fashion of muslim masses during the day of PAKISTAN movement, is of the same lineage.
Our historian and all who do write on the subject of the PAKISTAN movement make every reader believe that it was late Ch. Rehmat Ali who had the owner to use word Pakistan in 1933 for the first time for the muslim\Islamic federation that  had to come into being in 1947. Mr G.Allana maintains:
“text of the pamphlet “Now or Never” published by Choudry Rahmat Ali as “Founder Of Pakistan National Movement , “ in which the word “Pakistan” appears to have been used for the first time in a document”.
Mr.G.Allana’s statement has all its dependence on the test of the appeal made by Rahmat Ali esquire a passage thereof follows.
“I am enclosing herewith an appeal on behalf of the thirty million Muslims of India who live in the five northern units of India__________ Punjab, North-West frontier (Afgan) Province, Kashmir Sindh and Balcuhistan. It embodies status distinct from the other inhabitants by India, by the grant to Pakistan of a separate Federal constitution on religious social and historical grounds.”
Chaudry Rehmat Ali the founder of the then organization namely Pakistan National Movement made an effort to bring into light the fact.
“India constituted as it is a present movement is not the name of one single country nor the home of one single nation. It is, in-fact, the designation of a state created by the British for the first time in the history. It includes peoples who have never previously formed part of the Indian nation at may period of history, but who have, on the contrary from the dawn of history till the advent of the British possessed and retained distinct nationalities of their own. One of such peoples is our own nation”.
It will not be out of place to mention that the concept of the future msulim Islamic federation of Pakistan was different to that of the concept put forward by the philosopher leader Dr. Iqbal (R.A) in the Allaabad session of the all India Muslim League in 1930.
·         The Chaudry in this regard pleads.
“The demand in basically different put forward by Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal in his presidential address to the all India Muslim League in 1930 while he proposed the amalgamation of four out of the five above named provinces into a single state forming a unit of the Indian Federation of their own outside India
We propose that all those five provinces into a single state forming a unit of the All India Federation. We propose that all those five provinces should have a separate Federation of their own outside India. We are convinced there can be no peace and progress in India if we, the Muslim are duped with a Hindu dominated Federation and we are not made master our destiny and captains of own souls.”
Here it is to make clear that Dr. Iqbal (RA) had proposed a federation out of the provinces of the British India whereof Kashmir Hyderabad and many other Muslim populated or ruled state did not form a part. They were the parts of those 520 princely states of India which were being administrated by the local rulers. Chaudry Rahmat Ali made a proposal of three sovereign Muslim states in the sub Continent as.
1.      PAKISTAN
2.      USMANISTANT (Hyderabad Deccan) and
3.      Bang-e-Islamistan (Now Bangladesh)
This detail is sufficient to prove the point of the fact that Chaudry Rahmat Ali had made his overture to be known as “Pakistan” (One out of his three proposed states). But nowhere in his pamphlet “Now or Never” he made a claim that he was the first man who had invented the word to mean Pakistan which did not exist before. Same is the case of other states of the said proposal as well. Usmanistan (Hyderabad Deccan) faded away and Bang-e- Islamistan is now named Bangladesh. We can well visualize that the Muslim populace of the Chaudry Rahmat Ali. Nevertheless, Dr. Iqbal did not use the word Pakistan though it had been running on the tongues of every inhabitant of the Indo-Pak Sub-Continent. He, perhaps, had left this issue for the people of opinion to decide later on.
The question as to who was the man primus to coin the word Pakistan is unknown. God knows better who the first person was. Of course it was not Chaudry Rahmat Ali.
The chronology of the word Pakistan in terms of coming into documentary usages is not a mystery. Chaudry Rahmat Ali’s document “Now or Never” is obviously the document of 1933. So it is crystal clear that neither was he the first to invent the word nor was the first man to use it. But it is easy to peep into history of the past decades and see that forgotten veteran scholar and renowned journalist of his age MAULANA SYED GHULAM HASSAN KAZMI , whose prowess of superiority as Editor the Daily Zamindar was being acknowledged through out of the Indo-Pak Sub Continent, was the foremost person who has used the word Pakistan. There is no contrary evidence available in this behalf.
      Maulana Syed Ghulam Hassan Kazmi_____ a legend of our history was one the sons of the soil of Kashmir and was taught and trained in Uttar Machchi Pura ( Now Tehsil Handwara District Kupwara) at the village NATU. NUSA near KULANGHAM Handwara (then a tehsil of District Baramulla).
The author of this research article has the honor of going though some books of the Syed afore mentioned. Simultaneously, he thinks himself lucky enough that he had an opportunity of studying some books written by him which are still lying in the form of manuscripts. The same way the writer of this paper chanced to go through a heap of letters addressed to him i.e the Syed afore-said by the prominent scholars and writers of his days. This amount of materiel has enabled the writer of his days. This amount of material has enabled the writer to believe that our Syed Ghulam Hassan Kazmi was undoubtedly the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad or the Maulana Zafar Ali Khan of Kashmir, in the field of journalism. The two non-Kashmiri scholar leaders were fortunate enough to have been amongst those who recognized their talent and the Maulana of ours belonged to the land of the poet Ghani who said while he took a deep whispering breath.

It is an established fact that Maulana Syed Ghulam Hassan Kazmi filed an application in 1928 in the office of the Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad wherein he had made a request that he intended to publish a weekly under the name and caption of “PAKISTAN” and that permission to that effect should be granted in his favour. This application was being processed and the Maulana left for Bombay ( Now Mumbay).

Subsequently, on the first day of July 1928 one S.A Chisti submitted an application to the said. Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad to sapare a few minutes regarding having discussion about the application presented already by Maulana Syed Ghulam Hassan Kazmi in connection with bringing out a weekly named Pakistan from Abbotabad. The applicant i.e Mr. SA Chisti was the President Distt. Majlisi Itihad-i-Millat  Abbottabad and propaganda Secretary Dist. Muslim League Abbottabad Hazara. The copy of the said application has been given at its due place (Annexure-“A” which see). Those who bear malice towards none, those who are above the lusts of the flesh and those who are true blue and thorough going persons can see themselves that the application bear the stamp of the Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad office dated 2 July 1928.
The application under discussion was returned in original to the applicant under No-7984 dated 02 July 1928, “which remarks that the matter is under enquiry. The date on which the declaration in question is accepted will be communicated to him in due course.”
      The citation so made above is a clear-cut proof of the fact that the term Pakistan was first used by Maulana Syed Ghulam Hassan Kazmi in 1928 when he had applied for issuing a weekly named Pakistan and when Chaudry Rahmat Ali was still in the Sub-Continent of India and Pakistan. His “Now or Never” is the tale of 1933 at-least five years after 1928. He i.e Chaudry Rahmat Ali bore this very appellation in his mind just as his coeval people did denominate the Future Muslim Dominion. The Chronological usages of the word Pakistan set the date line as under.

1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
Maulana Kazmi

Dr. Iqbal


Chaudry Rahmat Ali
Of course, we can make an assertion without any fear of contradiction from any corner and without being on the tenterhooks that the word Pakistan had been so popular that it had become prevalent in common parlance of the Muslim masses of the Indo-Pak sub-continent when Chaudry Rahmat Ali was still in India. He had yet not left for Europe where he founded his organization. He bore this very appellation in his mind just as his contemporary people did denominate the future Muslim dominion. He penned down his “ Now or Never” latter on. In this perspective one can claim without an iota of the fear of repudiation that he used the name “Pakistan” as an amanuensis but not as an inventor, a discover or a contriver. Dr. sir Muhammad Iqbal, the Kashmiri thinker of standing-who put forth the ideology of separate Muslim Kingdom for the first time while presiding over the Annual congregation of the all India Muslim League at Allabad. He, nevertheless did not use the word “Pakistan” in his Precedential Address although the said word was being used commonly by the Muslim masses of the Indo Pak sub continent as is obvious. It was once again to go to the credit of Kashmiris that one more remarkable personality of letters, exalted in knowledge and sublime in position as a journalist happened to have fortune on his side to use the word under discussion i.e Pakistan in 1928 when he had applied for granting declaration for issuing “The weekly Pakistan” from Abbottabad the Hazara region of the tehn North Western Frontier Provisional of the British India.
      Syed Sibtul Hassan Zaigum has given a detailed account of the ups and downs of the strife of Maulana Syed Ghulam Hassan Shah Kazmi in one of the Sunday editions of the Daily Nawai Waqt. In the course of discussion he i.e Syed Sibt-ul-Hassan says,
“Syed Ghulam Hassan Kazmi presented an application for the declaration of” the weekly Pakistan in 1928”. The application was addressed to the Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad. The application was being processed in the concerned quarters while Maulana Kazmi was performing his duties as a member on the editorial staff of the Zamindar of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan. The Kazmi wrote a critical editorial on the subject of Afghanistan policy. Resultantly a case under “Foreign Officer Relations ordinance was filed against him. The court sentenced Maulana Ghulam Hassan Kazmi to a rigorous punishment of two year imprisonment. He spent these years in Borstal Jail Lahore, Central Jail Lahore, Distt. Jail Camblepur and Distt. Jail Multan. He could not stay afterwards, in the provinces of the Punjab and the then province of Frontier. The Jammu Division of the State of the State of Kashmir also did not accept him. He joined the “Haqeeaqt” Srinagar but could not continue there as well for his revolutionary bent of mind. He was constrained to leave for Bombay (Now Mumbay) where he got a chance to serve a publisher in bhindi bazaar.
The application for the issuance of the declaration of the weekly Pakistan had been submitted on the 2nd July of 1928 when Chaudry Rahmat Ali had been staying in the Sub-Continent and God knows better whether those days he had thought of Pakistan or not. His “Now or Never” became Known in 1933. Syed Sibt-ul-Hassan proceeds ahead and writes,
“In 1935 act new recommendations were enforced whereby Mualana Ghulam Hassan Kazmi was permitted to launch the weekly Pakistan from Abbottabad. The first issue of it was published on 1st May 1936.
The weekly Pakistan was so revolutionary and straight forward in policy that the provincial congress Government of he then Frontier province under the leadership of Dr. Khan Abdul Ghafar imposed ban on the said weekly.
Mr. Hazour Imam Kazmi the compiler of one of the famous books of late Syed Ghulam Hassan Shan Kazmi writes introducing the book namely “TAZKIRA-E-AULAD-I-IMAM MOSA KAZIM.
“In 1928 the scholar Kazmi applied the Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad for the sanction of granting the declaration of Pakistan in his favour. The application was under process that the Kazmi left for Bombay. There he was informed that his application was turned down. There after he kept on trying o get the said declaration though his application was rejected. In 1932 Maulana Kazmi was released from the jail and he associated himself with the Haqeeat Srinagar. Here he was tired once again. The Dogra regime could not tolerate him anymore. Meanwhile Chaudry Rahmat Ali wrote “Now or Never” wherein be proposed country. Maulana Ghulam Hassan Kazmi joined the weekly “SAHAIR-I-SARHAD” IN 1934 and in 1935 he fraternized himself with the “ZAMINDAR” of Muzaffarabad. In 1936 the Deputy Commissnor Abbottabad authorized Maulana Kazmi to publish the “Weekly Pakistan” was published from Abbottabad. The front page of the issue contained this piece of poetry at the upper most part of it.

At the end writer of this article presents an extract contained article of the Frontier post dated 13-04-1996 wherein writes Mr.Ishaque Wani.
“Kazmi, a forgotten hero for many decades, had to undergo several imprisonments including 2 years and o one year rigorous imprisonments under Sec-2 of ordinance IV of 1931. He was jailed for Publishing two articles in separates issues of daily Zamindar, on 24-04-1931 and 7-5-1931 respectively.
The issue of the Zamindar dated 17-05-1931 had been produced before the court to indicate settled policy of the newspaper with regard to Pro-Amanullah (Adhore  Amnullah Khan as patriotic Afghan and condemned the then ruler of Afghanistan).

Ultimately the declaration had been cancelled, but the Zamindar, the judgment, the imprisonment had Kazmi did reflect sighest degree of movement of Pan-Islamism that had impressed the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of Sub-Continent is better felt in the matter published in various issues of a voluminous (16 paged) weekly Pakistan founded by late Kazmi in Abbottabad on May1, 1936.
And so the Pan-Islamic issues were framed in the form of Pakistan, an extract from the editorial of the 1-8-1936, issue of weekly Pakistan says,
“Informed people known the theme of Pakistan. Our compatriots are very afraid of it------ Islamic religion Islamic nationality is inherent in moderation and balance.
Present day patriotism (Nationalism) is based on killing brothers and (this) patriotism is enemy of humanity----- The movement of Pan-Islamism or  Pakistani is no talk of any danger to non Muslims. It is no new movement but has been continuing for the lost 13 centuries and the heart of every muslim is centered in it.  A Musalaman is linked to universal brotherhood.
The Conclusion is that it was Maulana Ghulam Hassan Kazmi who had used the word “Pakistan” in 1928 in his application addressed to the Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad Hazara the record thereof is a clear-cut proof of the subject are duty bound to set the record aright and introduce Maulana Ghulam Hassan Kazmi as the Primordial user of the word Pakistan.



























REFERENCES.

1-      G.Allana, Pakistan Movement Historic Document Page 115 published by , Islamic Book services 40-A, Urdu Bazar Lahore, 3rd Edition Sep. 1977.
2-      Ibid Page 115
3-      Ibid Page 117
4-      Ibid PP 119-120
5-      Ibid Page 120A, 120D
6-      Kazmi Hazorr Imam his foreword to the Book Page 4.
7-      Annexure “A” which see
8-      Annexure “B” which see
9-      Syed Sibt-ul-Hassan Kazmi Sunday Edition Page 16 the Daily Nawa-e-waqt Lahore dated 26-03-2006.
10-  Ibid Page17
11-  Ibid Page 17
12-  Hazoor Imam Kazmi Refer 6 above
13-  Ishaque Wani’s article in the memory of Ghualm Hassan Kazmi in the Daily Frontier Post dated 13-04-1996.












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