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A Leader of MenThe poetic dream of Allama Iqbal caught the imagination of the Muslims of Sub Continent under the dynamic leadership of Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah who embarked upon the task of giving it a concrete shape of ideals and dreams. He structured and organized the comprehensive campaign for Pakistan, his audacious, adventurous, creativeness crystallized Dr. Muhammad Iqbals inspiration of Pakistan. The imagination and thought provoking message of Allama Iqbal was interpreted into realization when Baba-e-Quam Muhammad Ali Jinnah said:
We are a nation, with our own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, names and nomenclature, sense of value and proportion, legal laws and moral code, customs and calendar, history and traditions, aptitudes and ambitions, in short, we have distinctive outlook on and of life.
Mr. Jinnah determined and toiled, aimed and struggled. He attained the aims and accomplished the goal he had set before him. He was a man of strong will power, determination as well as had a lofty character. He worked day and night and never bent down even to the greatest temptation. His friends and adversaries both appreciated and respected him. It was he who shaped the Pakistan Movement in tough resistance by Hindus as well as British, and therefore got a separate homeland for the Muslims of the Sub Continent.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a lawyer by profession with a long and distinguished record of public service who believed in peaceful and legitimate methods of achieving self-government. He was against violence, bloodshed or any other revolutionary means for obtaining his goals.
Mr. Jinnah was a great nationalist with a burning desire for the liberation of his motherland from the foreign yoke thats why he joined Indian National Congress. He had expounding ideas for Hindu Muslim unity all his life, but could see no alternative option to partition because the narrow mindedness of Congress leadership towards Muslims proved that Congress cant lead Muslims of India, this influenced Mohammad Ali Jinnah to part his ways with Congress. 1916s Lucknow pact is an eloquent evidence of Quaid e Azams untiring efforts to bridge a gap between Hindus and Muslims. He candidly stated that the Sub Continent could not carry on undivided and yet remain tranquil. Some influential leaders attempted to avert the division, but Muslims demand for a separate state was uncontrollable.
He wasnt a man of illusions, when he decided to join Muslim League; he took a vigorous active part to make it effective and triumphant. In 1928, Nehru Report was presented which demanded dominion status for India and the separate election was declined. The reservation of the seats for Muslims of Bengal and Punjab was discarded in it. Muslims were astonished and bewildered at this report. At this time of despair, despondency and denial Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah came forward to safe guard the rights and interests of Muslims by presenting his Famous 14 points. Although Congress rejected these points but they became a milestone in the struggle of Muslims.
Quaid e Azam altered politics into statesmanship. He knew that like all other line of works, politics also needs intelligence, devotion, wisdom, prudence, belief in ones ideology and persistent bravery to stand for ones point of view. He set out to actualize his vision and possibilities. His sophisticated manner and taste carved politics into a fine art an art which was gigantic, enlightening, invigorating.
After the elections of 1937, the Congress leaders became arrogant superiors. Mr.Jinnah permitted the Muslim League to collaborate with them as much as possible, respecting those elections, particularly in the united provinces. The elections ended, drunk with power the Congress was on cloud nine, declined to do any constitutional dealings with the Muslim League except it merged with Congress and stressed that there are only two major forces in India today one is British Imperialism and the other is Indian nationalism acknowledged by Congress.
At this decisive juncture, Quaid e Azam Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah zealously observed the political situation and strongly claimed:
NO, there is a third party - namely the Muslims. We are not going to be dictated to by anybody We are not going to be camp followers of any party.
It was his belief and determination that reorganized the Muslim League who on 22 December 1939 celebrated the Day of Deliverance declared by Mr.Jinnah upon the resignation of Congress Provisional Government.
On the 23rd March 1940, the Muslim League under the presidentship of Quaid e Azam laid claim to a separate homeland that is Pakistan for the Muslims at the historic Lahore session of the Muslim league. When challenged by Mr. Gandhi on this point, Mohammad Ali Jinnah said,
We maintain and hold that the Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation. We are a nation of 100 million and what is more, we are a nation with our own distinct culture and civilization by all canons of international law, we are a nation.
On this strong foundation he demanded an independent Muslim state in the predominantly Muslim area of northwestern and eastern India. On July 26, 1943, Quaid-e-Azam escaped an attempted assassination by a Khaksar fanatic who attacked and wounded him by a knife. It was a shocking incident for the Muslims of Sub Continent but Mr.Jinnah remained dedicated to his aim and to his peoples welfare.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah defeated the mighty Congress in Ghandis lifetime; he defeated Mountbatten who always reacted to Muslim struggle by saying Mad Pakistan. Although failed in his mission to try and keep India a united country, arrogant Mountbatten uttered his hopelessness in these words:
But there was one man who absolutely prevented this and that was Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the president of Muslim League, who absolutely said NO from the very beginning and there was nothing I could do to make him change his mind.
In the words of the Quaid e Azam Paksitan was the Will of God and it was going to be fulfilled. He didnt move an inch from his goal, the achievement of Pakistan, and the world saw the will of God fulfilled inspite of all the threats, bitter criticism, conspiracies, antipathy and evil machinations of both the Hindus and British.
Within the seven years of Pakistan Resolutions demand of a separate land for Muslims, Pakistan was recognized as a self-governing sovereign state on August 14, 1947. Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the first Governor General and president of its constituent assembly. His leading and predominant position was a source of strength for the newly born state and his death after one year of the independence was a great loss for Pakistan and the nation.
