I stand beside you in your dreams and aspirations, because the ideals of Islam are so essentially and supremely the progressive human ideals that no human soul that loves progress can refuse allegiance to those ideals. “Though I stand side by side with you as a Kaffir, I am a comrade in all your dreams.
The premier Mussalman power in India (the Nizam of Hyderabad) rules over the city from which I come, and there the tradition of Islam has truly been carried out for two hundred years, that tradition of democracy that knows how out of its (Islamic) legislation to give equal rights and privileges to all the communities whose destinies it controls”. It is my right, because I come from the premier Mussalman city (Hyderabad) in India. Never have I been disappointed or defrauded of my right. “Even at the risk of being considered egotistical and conceited, I acknowledge that whenever I go to a new city, I always look for my special welcome from the Mussalmans of the place. Following are the excerpts from a talk given to the Young Men’s Muslim Association, Madras in 1917. Sarojini Naidu was much influenced and impressed by Islamic ideals. She was called ‘Bharat Kokila’ by Rabindranath Tagore. Naidu’s work as a poet earned her the sobriquet ‘Nightingale of India’ by Mahatma Gandhi.
She was a proponent of civil rights, women’s emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas and was an important figure in India’s struggle for independence from colonial rule. Sarojini Naidu (1879 – 1949) was an Indian political activist and poet.
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