Constructing Pakistan - pg. 132

Mawdudi's sundering of the Muslim identity in two proposes a politics different from the politics of Unionist Nationalism, for the Muslims can only be successful if both aspects of their political identity are accommodated. If the Muslims have to alter or abandon their Muslim identity in order to forge a nationalistic alliance, then that, according to Mawdudi, is absolutely impossible. Mawdudi then goes on to challenge the Hinduized Western concept of nationhood:

Those who want us to follow the path of nationhood only as Hindustanis follow the Western concept of nationhood, which has the Hindu view of humanity deeply embedded in it. They aim to eliminate the national differences caused by religious and traditional differences and replace them by one nation united under the mixture of Hinduism and communism ... We can only follow this path if we sacrifice our second condition of nationality, our Muslimhood.