We love our India

Welcoming address by Ameer Hassan (Islamic College of Brisbane) on the Islamic Heritage Award Conferring Ceremony 2008, New Delhi. The first Islamic Heritage Award was conferred on Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmed (Kanthapuram A.P.Aboobacker Musliyar).

I am a Muslim and profoundly conscious of the fact that I have inherited Islam's glorious tradition of the last fourteen hundred years. I am not prepared to lose even a small part of that legacy. The history and teachings of Islam, its arts and letters, its culture and civilization are part of my wealth and it is my duty to cherish and guard them. But, with all these feelings, I have another equally deep realization, born out of my life's experience which is strengthened and not hindered by the Islamic spirit. I am equally proud of the fact that I am an Indian, an essential part of the indivisible unity of the Indian nationhood, a vital factor in its total makeup, without which this noble edifice will remain incomplete.

--- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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