On 3rd January 1949, Mr. Nazeeruddin Ahmed [Bengal Muslim] at the Constituent Assembly spoke as follows;
My Amendment want to introduce philosophy, religion and law, Sir, I submit that Philosophy is peculiarly Asiatic in origin, so is religion. All the great philosophies and all the great religions emanated from the East, there is no reason why we should give up the philosopher or the men for leaders of religion. It only the other day that at the instance of Mr. Kamath we introduced the name of almighty in the Constitution, in fact the President is take the oath of office in the name of God having agreed to give the almighty a place in the Constitution. I think that religion, which follows from God should also have some recognition in this Constitution. It is often hinted that religion is a very bad thing and that it leads to quarrel. I submit Sir that religion never leads to quarrel. It is communalism that leads to quarrel and not religion. All the great religion are really good and supply a fundamental moral basis for the humanity to act. Therefore religion should not be discarded so also its philosophy, a philosophical attitude is particularly useful for a house like this, particularly when a member finds that this Amendments are not listened to or its speeches are not listened to by the Honourable Chairman Drafting Committee Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. He cannot but be philosophical. For god’s sake do not discard philosophy to.”
Comment: One is inclined to think we are losing grip of spiritual and philosophical attitude in our daily life.