The making of Pakistan, Source: Pak Broad Cor
The prominent leader of the All-India Muslim League, and the first Governor-General of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah campaigned for an independent Muslim state, free from Hindu association. Jinnah, as well as other Muslim supporters, did not want to be integrated into a Hindu dominated government.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Source: Chowrangi
“Hindus and Muslims brought together under a democratic system forced upon the minorities can only mean Hindu Raj...We [The Muslims] have had ample experience of the working of the provincial constitutions during the last two and a half years, and any repetition of such a government must lead to civil war…” (Jinnah, Presidential address by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the Muslim League Lahore, 1940)
Opposed to a united India, Jinnah sought an independent Pakistan. Through his speeches and deliberations, he advocated for the division of the Indian subcontinent. This would allow Muslims to have a secure place in a new government without the influence of Hindus or the threat of a Hindu dominated government.
"There are two nations - Hindus and Muslims", Source: The National Archives
“[T]he question of a division of India, as proposed by the Muslim League, is based on the fundamental fact that there are two nations-Hindus and Muslims-and the underlying principle is that we want a national home and a national state.” (The National Archives, Jinnah on Partition).
Jinnah kept a fully nationalist point of view when it came to the subject of Partition, encouraging the idea that Hindus and Muslims must form two separate nations as the Muslims and Hindus were both entitled to their own state.
“The major issue i.e. Pakistan must be immediately dealt with. The Government should, without any further delay, make a clear declaration of its policy accepting Pakistan as the only solution of India’s constitutional problem” (The National Archives, Jinnah to Stafford Cripps).