Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Sayings and Quotes

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Presidential Address at the All India Muslim League in Lahore (March 23, 1940) is “Come forward as servants of Islam organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Speaking at the opening ceremony of State Bank of Pakistan in Karachi (July 1, 1948) is “We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Message to Pakistan Day issued from Delhi (March 23, 1943) is

“I particularly appeal to our intelligentsia and Muslim students to come forward and rise to the occasion. You have performed wonders in the past. You are still capable of repeating the history. You are not lacking in the great qualities and virtues in comparison with the other nations. Only you have to be fully conscious of that fact and to act with courage, faith and unity.”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union in Aligarh (March 10, 1944) is "No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in Karachi (August 11, 1947) is “If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well being of the people and especially of the masses and the poor. You are free; you are free to go to your temples mosques or any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the state in due course of time Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to Muslims not in a religious sense for that is the personal faith of an individual but in a political sense as citizens of one state.”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Address to the officers of Pakistan in Karachi (February 21, 1948) is “You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Speech at a Mammoth Rally at the University Stadium of Pakistan in Lahore (October 30, 1947) is “That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.”

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Last message

It was therefore, with a sense of supreme satisfaction at the fulfillment of his mission that Jinnah told the nation in his last message on 14 August,1948
"The foundation of your state have been laid and it is now for you to build and build quickly as you can."
In accomplishing the task he had taken upon himself on the morrow of Pakistan's birth. Jinnah had worked himself to death, but he had to quote Richard Symons, "Contributed more than any other man to Pakistan's survival."
He died on 11 september,1948. How true was Lord Pethick Lawrence, the former secretary of State for India, when he said, "Gandhi died by the hand of an assassin, Jinnah died by his devotion to Pakistan."

The Fourteen Points of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

1) The form of the future constitution should be federal with the residuary powers vested in the provinces.

2) A uniform measure of autonomy shall be granted to all provinces.

3) All legislatures in the country and other elected bodies shall be constituted on the definite principle of adequate and effective representation of minorities in every province without reducing the majority in any province to a minority or even equality.

4) In the Central Legislature, Muslim representation shall not be less than one third.

5) Representation of communal groups shall continue to be by means of separate electorate as at present, provided it shall be open to any community at any time to abandon its separate electorate in favor of a joint electorate.

6) Any territorial distribution that might at any time be necessary shall not in any way affect the Muslim majority in the Punjab, Bengal and the North West Frontier Province.

7) Full religious liberty, i.e. liberty of belief, worship and observance, propaganda, association and education, shall be guaranteed to all communities.

8) No bill or any resolution or any part thereof shall be passed in any legislature or any other elected body if three-fourth of the members of any community in that particular body oppose such a bill resolution or part thereof on the ground that it would be injurious to the interests of that community or in the alternative, such other method is devised as may be found feasible and practicable to deal with such cases.

9) Sindh should be separated from the Bombay Presidency.

10) Reforms should be introduced in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Baluchistan on the same footing as in the other provinces.

11) Provision should be made in the constitution giving Muslims an adequate share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of the state and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of efficiency.

12) The constitution should embody adequate safeguards for the protection of Muslim culture and for the protection and promotion of Muslim education, language, religion, personal laws and Muslim charitable institution and for their due share in the grants-in-aid given by the state and by local self-governing bodies.

13) No cabinet, either central or provincial, should be formed without there being a proportion of at least one-third Muslim ministers.

14) No change shall be made in the constitution by the Central Legislature except with the concurrence of A the State’s contribution of the Indian Federation.

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Biography

Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a 20th century lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan. He is popularly and officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam and Baba-e-Qaum mean Father of the Nation. He served as leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's independence on August 14, 1947 and Pakistan's first Governor-General from August 15, 1947 until his death on September 11, 1948.

Jinnah was the first child born to Mithibai and Poonja Jinnah. His father Poonja Jinah (1857–1901) was a prosperous Gujarati merchant who had moved to Sindh from Kathiawar.  His ancestors were Hindu Rajputs who had converted to Islam. His family belonged to the Ismaili Khoja branch of Shi'a Islam though Jinnah later converted to Twelver Khoja Shia Islam. The first born Jinnah was soon joined by six sibling’s 

Brothers Ahmad Ali, Bunde Ali, and Rahmat Ali, and sisters Maryam, Fatima and Shireen. Their mother language was Gujarati in time they also came to speak Kutchi, Sindhi and English. The proper Muslim names of Mr. Jinnah and his siblings, unlike those of his father and grandfather are the consequence of the family's immigration to the Muslim state of Sindh.

He was a restless student, he studied at several schools at the Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam in Karachi briefly at the Gokal Das Tej Primary School in Bombay and finally at the Christian Missionary Society High School in Karachi where at age sixteen he passed the matriculation examination of the University of Bombay.In 1892, He was offered an apprenticeship at the London office of Graham's Shipping and Trading Company a business that had extensive dealings with Poonja’s firm in Karachi. Before he left for England, at his mother's urging he married his distant cousin Emibai Jinnah who was two years his junior but she died a few months later. During his sojourn in England, his mother too would pass away. In London, he soon left the apprenticeship to study law instead by joining Lincoln's Inn. It is said that the sole reason of Jinnah's joining Lincoln's Inn is that the welcome board of the Lincoln's Inn had the names of the world's all time top ten magistrates and that this list was led by the name of Muhammad P.B.U.H.  In three years at age 19 he became the youngest Indian to be called to the bar in England.

During his student years in England He came under the spell of 19th century British liberalism like many other future Indian independence leaders. This education included exposure to the idea of the democratic nation and progressive politics. An admirer of the Indian political leaders Dadabhai Naoroji and Sir Pherozeshah Mehta he worked with other Indian students on the former's successful campaign to become the first Indian to hold a seat in the British Parliament.

He rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress initially expounding ideas of Hindu-Muslim unity and helping shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress, he also became a key leader in the All India Home Rule League. He proposed a fourteen-point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in a self-governing India.He later advocated the Two Nation Theory embracing the goal of creating a separate Muslim state as per

the Lahore Resolution. The League won most reserved Muslim seats in the elections of 1946. After the British and Congress backed out of the Cabinet Mission Plan He called for a Direct Action Day to achieve the formation of Pakistan. Direct action by the Muslim League and its Volunteer Corps resulted in massive rioting in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus. As the first Governor General of Pakistan, He led efforts to lay the foundations of the new state of Pakistan frame national policies and rehabilitate millions of Muslim refugees who had migrated from India.He died in September 1948, just over a year after Pakistan gained independence from the British Empire just over a year after Pakistan gained independence from the British Empire.

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