.. In Karachi on 15 December, 1947 the Council of  the All India Muslim League passed a resolution bifurcating the organisation into two. One part was to be the Muslim League of Pakistan, and the second All India Muslim League ... Thus, this question is to be answered: of what character were the forthcoming Conference of Muslims in Lucknow organised by Maulana Azad, and a later one to be held in Madras by the "Muslim League"? In this context, Gandhiji felt that after the creation of Pakistan, the Muslim League could not continue to exist in India as a political organisation. However, he had every regard and concern for the Muslims as a minority people.

He, therefore, assured them, "A minority, however, small should have no reason to feel afraid for its honour and for the things it holds dear. If man could know his Maker, and realise that he himself is a reflection of that Maker, no power on earth can take away his self-respect ....(In) Transvaal, a dear English friend told me. "I always  like to be with a minority, for a minority generally does not commit mistakes, and even if it does commit them they can be rectified. But a majority gets drunk with power, and it is difficult to reform it. If the Muslims of India see the virtues of being a minority, they can show the beauties of Islam in their own way. They must remember that the best days of Islam were the days of the Prophet Mohammed's minority in Mecca". (He) advised the nationalist Muslims of India to join the Congress. This advice of his was widely welcomed.

After prayers, Gandhiji told his audience, "I receive Sikh visitors and read the newspapers. They say that I am an enemy of the Sikhs. A tree is known by its fruit. For man is not God: man can know a thing only by its results. The fruit of Independence has been that today Hindus and Sikhs on the one hand, and Muslims on the other, have become enemies. I had been deluded that our freedom struggle was truly non-violent. God had rendered me blind, and I was misled. Because the lame, the crippled, and the cowardly cannot be non-violent. I do not literally mean the lame and the crippled, for God helps them, and they are always non-violent. Even a child can stand before the whole world on the, strength of non-violence ...