KARACHI, Dec 23: Speakers at a meeting of the Hamdard Naunehal Assembly – Karachi Chapter urged people to follow the principle of the father of the nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, on unity – “united we stand and divided we fall”.

The meeting was held under the aegis of the Hamdard Foundation Pakistan at a local hotel.

Mrs Sadia Rashid, President of the Hamdard Foundation Pakistan, addressing the meeting, said the ideas and conceptions of the Quaid-i-Azam keep reminding us that we should make the nation aware of the significance and standards of education.

“Without acquiring new knowledge and adopting international standards of education, we cannot make progress or bring prosperity to the country,” she added.

She said Dr Allama Iqbal gave the concept of Pakistan while Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah turned it into a reality by the force of his dynamism, political acumen, hard labour and determination.

“He was the emancipator of the Muslims of the subcontinent who led an effective movement in the history of Muslims and achieved an independent state for Muslims of the region,” she observed.

Quaid-i-Azam believed in the principal of “live and let live” and gave us the golden principles of “unity, faith and discipline”, which reminds us of his abilities and efforts in getting an independent Muslim State.

Hakim Usman said that Hakim Mohammad Said taught him how to write and deliver speeches. He said the late Hakim was a prolific writer who wrote smooth and beautiful prose, adding that once he wrote something, he did not delete even a single word. It was as if selective sentences were coming directly from his mind.

Hakim Usman was of the opinion that Arabic and Persian should be made part of the curricula so that students could understand these language and through them comprehend the meanings of the Holy Quran.

Child speakers Mohammed Khurram, Ramsha Kanwal, Hafiz Hassan Ahmed Siddiqui, Tatheer Ansari, Mustafa Yousf and Ans Liaquat also spoke and paid glowing tributes to the Quaid-i-Azam.

They vowed that they would follow the ideas, principles and sayings of the father of the nation, make Pakistan an enlightened and a developed country, and never follow the path of obscurantism.

Besides educationists, teachers, parents and children in a large number attended the function.—PPI