The government of Pakistan in the year 1949 approved of a committee of its senior scholars to propose to the national assembly principles it should adopt as a foundation for the country’s constitution. Our Shaikh, the Mufti (Allah have mercy on him), opted to be a member of this committee, and he worked for it continuously with full energy for four years.
During this period, the government proposed a constitution, most of which was in contradiction to the upright Islamic Shariah. When the Ulama of Pakistan expressed their disapproval of it, the government announced that it would accept what all the ulama from all the Islamic groups agreed upon, due to their belief that such a consensus would be impossible due to the intense disagreements between the different Islamic groups.
However, the sincere ulama deserves great admiration, and from the foremost of them our Shaikh (Allah Almighty have mercy on him), as they rolled up their sleeves, to make this matter which the minds found improbable, a reality, and they strove night and day to unite the word of Islam, and they encouraged the different groups to unite on the preservation of the religion, until their scholars agreed to meet in one place. They held a well-attended conference in Karachi and they assembled therein from every corner. Indeed this conference was historical, falsifying the claim of Islam’s enemies that the ulama only knows disagreement and argumentation since this conference proposed a basis for the constitution of the country according to religious principles such that all groups agreed upon it, and no two people differed on it and no two goats butted heads on it.
Then the government announced new principles and propagated them to the common Muslims so its opinions could be gauged. The ulama felt there was a need for a second time to hold a conference like the earlier conference, in order that the ulama assemble and deliberate therein and put forward their unanimous and unified views. The ulama strove, and from them our Shaikh (Allah have mercy on him), to hold this conference, and Allah gave them success in this project until the conference completed its work and corrected the evil which the new constitution contained.
Then the matter of the constitution continued to be revised and solved till this day of ours, so at times the open space would shine with shimmers of hope and at other times it would be encompassed by the glooms of despair and hopelessness. However, Shaikh spared nothing in his efforts [in this case] as much as was possible, despite what he faced of the suffering of white hair, the great number of his commitments, and his decreased health until Allah (Exalted is He) took his soul.