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Jnnah was not a religious salafacist fanatic. His argument of Muslims of subcontinent being different people was based on the cultural and communal differences. He never idolized figures like Mododi who were champions of pan-islamism and above all if Jinnah intended an Islamist state he would not find himself at conflict with JI - which issued fatwas against Jinnah and his mission. Jinnah was a visionary, he foresaw the mullah politics of power struggle and being easy sell out's to foreign powers. He knew that without partition, JI would proclaim itself the indisputable speaker of all subcontinental muslims leading to long term instability and communal anarchy!
By 1938 he was against the formation of political parties, but in 1941 he had a change of heart and Maududi founded Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), with the prime objective of setting up of a kingdom of Allah in total rejection of secularism, democracy and nation-state where private and public sphere of man's life would be governed by the principles of Islam. He considered them sinful and called for the total boycott of secular structures like the parliament, army, courts, educational institutions and government jobs. However his party later contested elections for the parliament, collaborated with the army, filed petitions in courts and penetrated into educational institutions and the government, setting their earlier ideology aside. Similar to Muslim Brotherhood, the JI focused on middle class professionals and state employees rather than traditional mullahs.
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