{"id":3024,"date":"2017-03-27T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2017-03-27T20:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:12:06","slug":"understanding-jinnah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacewatchkashmir.com\/blog\/editors-take\/understanding-jinnah\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Jinnah"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>
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Understanding Jinnah <\/a><\/h1>\n
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By Zahid G Muhammad<\/a><\/div>\n
Published: December 25, 2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The writer is a Srinagar-based journalist and editor of Peace Watch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Some two decades back, I read a book by Raj Mohan Gandhi, titled Understanding the Muslim Mind<\/em>. The book is about eight great Indian Muslims, including Muhammad Ali Jinnah<\/a> and Liaquat Ali Khan, who shaped the destiny of the Muslims of the subcontinent. I thought of doing a similar book that would provide insight into the Kashmir mind. But then I asked myself, could any of them really be called great men?<\/p>\n

The eight people Raj Mohan Gandhi has written about are truly great minds and out of them I see Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the greatest, for his \u201cindomitable will\u201d. Also, as put by his biographer Stanly Wolpert, \u201chis place of primacy in Pakistan\u2019s history looms like a minaret over the achievements of all his contemporaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

In my search for finding what was missing in our contemporary leaders, I found that instead of redeeming people they have pushed them into a morass of uncertainty. I had an opportunity of finding a Jinnah outside his famous biographies. In two articles about him, I found a Jinnah that has hitherto remained eclipsed from people \u2014 one by his sister Fatima Jinnah titled \u201cA businessman Becomes A Barrister\u201d and another by Sadat Husain Manto called \u201cJinnah Sahib\u201d.<\/p>\n

His sister says his eager mind was keen to benefit from his visit to England at a time when the spirit of British liberalism was making profound impact on the minds of people. He adopted the typically English habit of reading carefully his morning newspapers. About his joining the Lincoln\u2019s Inn, Fatima Jinnah quotes his brother as saying, \u201cMy inquiries and discussions made me decide for another inn than Lincoln\u2019s. But then I saw the name of the great Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) engraved on the main entrance of Lincoln\u2019s Inn among the great lawgivers of the world. So I made a sort of vow that I would join Lincoln\u2019s Inn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saadat Hasan Manto\u2019s writings on Jinnah <\/a>makes for an interesting reading in that he talks about the lifestyle of this great leader, his relations with his sisters other than Fatima Jinnah and with his servants and drivers. \u201cThe Quaid had three sisters, one of them lived at Chowpati and her husband did not earn much. Jinnah Sahib would send her some money every month.\u201d Jinnah played billiards and would hit with precision. Manto also wrote that in politics \u201cthe Quaid never made hasty decision. As in billiards, he would examine the situation from every angle and only move when he was sure he would get it right the first time\u201d.<\/p>\n

This article not only belies Jinnah\u2019s detractors but also provides insight into his personal life even though the general belief has been that his domestic life would always remain a mystery.<\/p>\n

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25th<\/sup>, 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Express Tribune > Opinion<\/p>\n

Understanding Jinnah <\/p>\n

By Zahid G Muhammad
\nPublished: December 25, 2010<\/p>\n

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The writer is a Srinagar-based journalist and editor of Peace Watch<\/p>\n

Some two decades back, I read a book by Raj Mohan Gandhi, titled Understanding the Muslim Mind. The book is about eight great Indian Muslims, including Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan, who shaped the destiny of the Muslims of the subcontinent. I thought of doing a similar book that would provide insight into the Kashmir mind. But then I asked myself, could any of them really be called great men?
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