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In continuation of my blog under the title of A Brief History: Foundation Of Pakistan Part One, I have written this blog as desired 

      The era of Muslim sovereignty, which commenced at the beginning of seven century in South Asian subcontinents, was declined at the middle of eighteen century, after about a thousand year when the British occupied the Punjab in 1849, later on the whole India.  In the meanwhile, Islam  was not only introduced as a new religion, but also brought in the region a new civilization, culture, architecture, way of life and a new set of values, which laid down the foundation of a new nation who entirely differed from the aboriginals, Hindus. The difference between these two nations was, later on,  expounded as Two Nation Theory.

      In 1001 AD, Al-Beruni (973-1048), the historian, having visited at India along with Sultan Muhammad of Ghazna, wrote in his book, Kitab-ul-Hind that India was inhabited by two  distinct nations whose way of life such as marriage, festivals, traditions, religious ceremonies, funereal rites  were completely incompatible with one another. In spite of all this facts, Muslim rulers protected all the sacred places of Hindus during their kingdom as in Islam preserving the sacred places of non-believers is the utmost duty of the ruler of the time, rather using any abusive language against even false gods is also prohibited.Allah says in [6:108] "Do not abuse those whom they worship besides Allah lest they become disrespectful towards Allah’s Majesty, through injustice and ignorance."

      Therefore, Hindus, despite having so much heterogeneity with them in all aspects of life, lived in harmony under sovereignty of Muslims for  a thousand year. But after a war in 1857, in which 200,000 of people, majority of whom, were Muslims, sacrificed their lives for the sake of independence from British domination, the extremist Hindu turned against the long lasted unity between Hindu and Muslims. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, who was the only highly educated Indian leader of both nations Muslims and Hindus at that time, turned off supporting the unity having seen the extreme views of fanatic Hindus against Muslims after Banarus incident in 1867, which was the agitation against the proposal of Urdu as an official language of India.

      Sir Syed Ahmed Khan became the first Indian leader who expounded the "Two Nation Theory". He foresaw that the future of Indian Muslims could be preserved by empowering them in the field of education. He, therefore, launched the educational movement popularly known as Alighar movement, which, later on, produced many great Muslim leaders and freedom fighters such Moulana Muhammad Ali Johar, Liaquat Ali Khan,  Allama Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Jinnah who made the greatest contributions in emancipating Indian Muslims from the tyranny of both extremist Hindus and extremist Britishers.

To be continued........