The Ideology of Pakistan is explained below in the light of the pronouncements of Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Ideology of Pakistan
Allama Muhammad Iqbal was one of those Muslim leaders of the subcontinent, who gave the concept of separate homeland to the Muslims and awakened them through his poetry. In the beginning he was also a supporter of the Hindu Muslim unity, but soon the orthodox and biased attitude of the Hindus forced him to think that he should demand for a separate state. In his Allahabad Address of 1930, he pleaded for separate state where Muslims could lead their lives in accordance with their religion and culture. In his address he said:-
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"The formation of a Muslim state appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North- West India. If we wish to keep Islam alive as cultural force in the country, it is imperative that it should establish its central authority in a specific territory. I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interests of Islam in India."
As two separate representative nations were living together in the subcontinent, therefore, Allama Muhammad Iqbal wished to promote the Muslims as a great and distinct nation. He thought that to safeguard the political, social and economic rights of the Muslims it was essential to have a separate state for them.
Quaid-e-Azam and Ideology of Pakistan
In history many personalities are known to have changed the destiny of the nations. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is one of such personalities of the subcontinent who changed the destiny of the Muslims of the subcontinent.