Muhammad Ali Jinnah

A man who was born to be a leader!

By: Faiza Khatoon

“The most important man of the Asia is tall, thin and elegant, with a monocle on a gray skin cord. He can sway the battle this way or that as he chooses. His 100 million Muslims will march to the left, to the right, to the front to the rear at his bidding, and at nobody else’s…that is the point”. Beverly Nichols express his view about Quaid-e-Azam by saying these words in 1944. The writer was right because after three years Mr. Jinnah won the battle and got a free land for Muslims.

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was not just the founder of Pakistan but also a man with great qualities of heart and head. Quaid was a great politician, parliamentarian, thinker and a great lawyer. His qualities made him a leader who is undefeatable. 

Quaid was an intelligent and repartee boy in his student life as well. When he was studying law at the University of London, he had a Professor, named Peter, who had an unexpected animosity for Jinnah, and because Jinnah never backed down, their arguments were very common. One day Mr. Peter was having lunch in the dining room at the university and Jinnah came along with his tray and sat next to the Professor. The Professor, in his arrogance said “M. Jinnah” you do not understand a pig and a bird do not sit together to eat, to which Jinnah replied don’t worry Professor, “I will fly away and he went and sat to another table”. Prof. Peter now red with range planned his revenge in the next test. When the test was taken Jinnah respond brilliantly to all questions. Finally Prof. Peter asked him. Mr. Jinnah If you are walking down the street and found a package, and within it there is a bag of wisdom and another bag with a lot of money; which one would you take? Without hesitating. Jinnah responded, “The one with the money, of course”. Mr. Peter smiling, said, “I in your place, would have taken the wisdom, don’t you think? Jinnah responded indifferently, “Well each one must take what one doesn’t have.

When he became lawyer, he was arguing with a judge to support his client, his glasses fell down. The judge smiled sarcastically and said “Now you will have to bend”. He took out another glass from his pocket and smiled, “Sir, I have a dozen more”.

He was a terrific lawyer who did not lose any case in his whole career. Along with that, he proved himself as a great leader and politician.

Edgar Snow, the well-known American author, noted that even if one only appraised Jinnah as a barrister, it would be to acknowledge that he had won the most monumental judgment in the history of the bar. He had recognized in the romantic ideal of Pakistan, a case that could be fought and won. Lord Denning, the Master of Rolls, in fact, Master of Rulings, had recalled with pleasure the fact that the Quaid-i-Azam, the founder of Pakistan, had been a member of Lincoln’s Inn. Mahatma Gandhi, who, in his letter to Lord Birkenhead, described Mr. Jinnah and Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru as the two cleverest lawyers of India.

 He inspired the Muslims of the sub-continent and prepared them to stand against the ugly forces of Hindu hegemony and British imperialism. He was born on 25th December, 1876. He was a gift for Muslims by Allah. He got his degree in law from London. He started his political career as a member of Bombay legislature. Then he joined congress but with the passage of time he realized that Hinds has such an evil minds and they cannot think good for other nations especially for the Muslims.

He left congress and joined Muslim League. He gave hope to the Muslims of sub-continent of a free homeland in which they can live according to their desires. He knew that Muslims and Hindus are two separate nations and cannot live together so the struggle of a united sub-continent is useless and waste of time. By his endless efforts he united the Muslims of India in one platform for the same objective that was freedom and creation of Pakistan.

He was a true leader who remained loyal and down to earth with his people.

He was a great personality that even his enemies admitted his greatness. Vijay Laxmi Pandit says about Quaid “If Muslim League Has 100 Gandhis and 200 Abdul Kalam Azad and Congress has only one Jinnah than India would have never divided”. Gandhi called him “an impossible man” who never compromises with his principles.

Jinnah always stood like a rock against his enemies. He also has a deep sense of religious understanding. He wanted to make Pakistan a real Islamic state and wanted to introduce a system that reflects the Islamic values. His poor health cannot distract him from his mission. It was the result of his untiring struggle that Pakistan took place on the map of the world on 14^th August, 1947. Pakistan has a unique identity because of its ideology. It is the first Islamic country that was created on the name of Islam.

Quaid-e-Azam through his sincerity and earnestness of his actions, proved that politics is not a business of telling lies, but a sacred display of truth and uprightness. For a man with a stirred up soul, the meaning of life lies in achievement. But there can be no achievement without accepting and facing challenges. How many people accept it? Quaid-e-Azam accepts it, achieved the aims and reached the goals he had set before him. He lives a life what others desired to live.

We are a lucky nation that we were gifted with a man who gives us our identity and made us able to say proudly  that we belongs to a free country. Mussolini was right that “Jinnah was a historic personality which takes birth once in a century”.