Quaid e Azam
Introduction
‘Quaid e Azam was an Indian politician who successfully campaigned for an independent Pakistan and became its first leader. He is known there as ‘Quaid e Azam’ or ‘Great Leader’.
Birth
On December 25, 1876, Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born in Karachi, which is now in Pakistan but was formerly a part of British-ruled India. His father was a successful Muslim businessman.
Jinnah pursued his education at Lincoln’s Inn in London and Bombay University. After that, he successfully operated a law firm in Bombay. In 1913, he established the Muslim League, but not before he had already joined the Indian National the US Congress, which promoted independence from British rule. He was chosen as the league’s president in 1916. The organization had been established a few years previously to defend the interests of Indian Muslims in a nation that was primarily Hindu.
The Indian National Congress began a boycott of all facets of British authority in 1920 by starting a non-cooperation movement. Jinnah quit from the congress in protest of this approach. Significant disparities existed between the Muslim League and the Congress by this point.
In mixed-race districts, the Congress declined to join coalition administrations with the Muslim League following the 1937 provincial elections. The Hindu-Muslim relationship started to worsen. The first formal call for the partition of India and the establishment of a Muslim state in Pakistan was made in 1940 during a Lahore Muslim League session. Although Jinnah had always thought that Hindu-Muslim unity was achievable, he grudgingly accepted the idea that separation was required to protect Indian Muslims’ rights.
As a result of his insistence on this matter during negotiations with the British administration, India was divided and the state of Pakistan was established on August 14, 1947. This took place in the midst of extensive violence between Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs as well as a large-scale population movement that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives as people moved between the newly formed states of Pakistan and India.
Jinnah became the first governor general of Pakistan, but died of tuberculosis on 11 September 1948.
Quaid-e-Azam Quotes
Courage is what all matters.
“You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.”
Anything is achievable.
“With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”
Before you make a decision…
“Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”
