Wednesday, December 5, 2012

“I am a fan” of Mr. Jinnah, says Muhammad Nasrullah, founder of Global 100 company Pring


Painful Cut
Can you imagine living in a village which suddenly becomes two halves and each half is in a different country? Can you imagine that suddenly half of your family is Pakistani and half is Indian? These are just some of the consequences ordinary people faced in 1947. What a way to draw a border!

Wagah
That village is Wagah which hosts the border crossing with a big picture of Mr Jinnah on the Pakistan side and a big picture of Gandhi on the other side.  

Lost HomeImagine suddenly you are in hostile territory and while estimates vary, over 12 million people found themselves displaced. In other words, with no home and forced to cross hostile territory to find a new abode. The terrible violence that took place as people moved lock, stock and barrel produced an atmosphere of hostility and lack of trust that colors the relationship between India and Pakistan today.

Hall of Admiration
Could this have been avoided? Would the better solution have been no partition?  It is easy to look back with the benefit of hindsight and consider. Here is the modern take on Mr. Jinnah and what he means to those who are now the descendants of that great exodus.

Rizwan Shams
"Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three! For any Pakistani these words are carved in pride." (American Biographer Stanley Wolpert (Biography Jinnah of Pakistan))

Remarkable Irony
As a leader of the Pakistan independence movement Muhammad Ali Jinnah is one of the most remarkable statesmen of the 20th century. Yet ironically he remains one of the least known figures of modern history, in the same way that his nation and people are often not understood in their full complexities. Outside of Pakistan hardly anyone knows about Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Gandhi versus JinnahYet almost everyone knows about Mahatma Gandhi and they quote his (Gandhi) quotes, bravery and leadership in everyday talks and speeches. Yet Muhammad Ali Jinnah has more accomplishments than Mahatma Gandhi.

In Houston Texas, USA, the City of Houston named the business district after him as Mahatma Gandhi Business District. These are the great accomplishments and unity of the Indian community and that’s how they spread the name of Mahatma Gandhi all over the world in the hearts and minds of the people and that made him (Gandhi) a legend.

Kashif Yaseen
Mr Jinah is a great and brave leader of the world. <Mr. Jinnah is also known as Quaid-e-Azam meaning Great Leader>. Quaid-e-Azam is a great history of Islam. I have met with Quaid's security guard Raja Yaqob. He was my grandfather's friend. He said Quaid was a nice and brave person. He was very hardworking. He was busy every time in file work. He said Quaid was honest with Pakistan.

Asima Sadia
Mr. Jinnah was a great leader having strong passion and determination for the Muslims to have their rights by having an independent homeland, so that they may lead their lives independently and with free will. His passion, determination and positive focus finally brought forward the desired results; a great personality in all aspects that can be followed; a man of ethics and principles with positive focus and determination to achieve his goal.

Mushtaq Hussain
He was a great human, lawyer, leader, bold and brave. He led a Muslim minority to give them their rights. He fulfilled the ideology of Iqbal and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan by his hard work.

Work, work, work was his slogan. A man like him is born once in a century.

We salute him for his efforts which finally transformed into shape of Pakistan.

Photograph from the Manchester Guardian, 27 September 1947, "A crowd of Moslems at the old fort of Purana Kila outside Delhi." The Purana Qila (Old Fort) area had been converted into a vast camp for Muslim refugees waiting to be transported to Pakistan.

Raashid Wali Janjua
He was a very practical and ethically minded person with an incisive intellect. A self-made man who created a niche in Indian politics through hard work and sedulous advocacy of the political and economic rights of oppressed Indians from all religions. A liberal who drank deep from Morley's "On Liberalism" and was groomed by the likes of Gokhale was a true ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity. He parted ways from Congress having despaired of its policies about the Muslim political rights. He loved, participated in politics, entered law practice and led the Muslims with a principle-based passion. A constitutionalist to the core, his anglicized demeanor and mannerisms belied a fierce nationalism that refused to bend to the blandishments of the British imperialists.

Your Voice, Your Views, Your Part in History

Earlier articles published at www.abetoday.com – have your say – either answer the questions or send me a paragraph about how you feel about Mr. Jinnah – susanmckenzie2003@yahoo.co.uk

1.  Have your say about the father of a new era: Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah http://abetoday.com/2012/12/05/have-your-say-about-the-father-of-a-new-era-mr-muhammad-ali-jinnah/

2.  Good Governancehttp://abetoday.com/2011/05/29/good-governance-timeless-speech-by-first-president/ 

3.  Outstanding blessingshttp://abetoday.com/2011/04/22/outstanding-blessings-from-allama-iqbal-and-ma-jinnah/ 

4.  Inevitable Divisionhttp://abetoday.com/2011/04/22/brainchild-of-sir-muhammad-iqbal-pakistan-had-to-be/ 

5.    Muhammad Ali Jinnah Quaid-e-Azam, one of the most remarkable statesmen of the 20th centuryhttp://abetoday.com/2011/04/03/2591/ 

6.  The Legacy of the Father of the Nation – The Greatest Way to Livehttp://abetoday.com/2010/12/25/for-millions-quaid-e-azam-is-revered-as-the-father-of-a-nation-his-legacy-also-includes-some-of-the-best-philosophy-to-live-by-says-jehanzaib-younis

Painful Partition

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