Quotes by Jinnah.

[dabong1]

“I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.”


“Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

 

[dabong1]

Please add some more

 

[Wounded Healer]

"The change in the world is always brought by one man, whom we call "the leader". Who has the vision and the force not only to make people dream, but to reach and live that dream. He is intelligent enough to foresee tomorrow. He is selfless and courageous to the extent of being ready to scarifies everything and express truth even if it defames him. People fellow him where he takes them. He is the one who accelerates history and for whom nature proclaims itself. "What a man""


26th December, 1943
“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim ideology, which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and which, we hope, others will share with us.”


18th June, 1945
“Our object should be peace within and peace without; we want to live peacefully and maintain cordial and friendly relations with our immediate neighbors and with the world at large. We have no aggressive designs against anyone. We stand by the United Nations Charter and will gladly make our full contribution to the peace and prosperity of the world.”


Broadcast Message 15th August, 1947
“Finally, let me tell you, fellow citizens, Pakistan is a land of great potential resources. But to build it up into a country worthy of the Muslim nation, we shall require every ounce of energy that we possess and I am confident that it will come from all whole-heartedly.”

“The establishment of Pakistan for which we have been striving for the last ten years is, by grace of God, an established fact today, but the creation of a State of our own was a means to an end and not the end in itself. The idea was that we should have a state in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find fairplay.”


Broadcast Message February, 1948
“Work honestly and sincerely and be faithful and loyal to the Pakistan Government. I can assure you that there is nothing greater in this world than your own conscience and, when you appear before God, you can say that you performed your duty with the highest sense of integrity, honesty and with loyalty and faithfulness.”


“In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great….”


“I wish to impress on you that no nation can rise to the heights of glory unless your women are side by side with you. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. I do not mean that we should imitate the evils of western life. But let us try to raise the status of our women according to our own Islamic idea and standards. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable conditions in which our women have to live. You should take your women along with you as comrades in every sphere of life avoiding the corrupt practice of western society. You cannot expect a woman who is herself ignorant to bring up your children properly. The woman has the power to bring up children on right lines. Let us not throw away this asset.”

 

[Wounded Healer]

“My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret.”


“Remember we are building up a State which is going to play its full part in the destinies of the whole Islamic World. We, therefore, need a wider look, an outlook which transcends the boundaries of provinces, limited nationalism, and racialism. We must develop a sense of patriotism which should galvanize us all into one united and strong nation. That is the only way in which we can achieve our goal, the goal of our struggle, the goal for which millions of Mussalmans have lost their lives.”


“We have weathered the worst storms and the safety of the shore, though distant, is in sight. We can look to the future with robust confidence provided we do not relax and fritter away our energies in internal dissensions. There never was greater need for discipline and unity in our ranks. It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.”


“Without education it is complete darkness and with education it is light. Education is a matter of life and death to our nation. The world is moving so fast that if you do not educate yourselves you will be not only completely left behind, but will be finished up. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) had enjoined his followers to go even to China in the pursuit of knowledge. If that was the commandment in those days when communications were difficult, then, truly, Muslims as the true followers of the glorious heritage of Islam, should surely utilize all available opportunities. No sacrifice of time or personal comfort should be regarded too great for the advancement of the cause of education.”

 

[EagleEyes]

“Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

Wisely said.

 

[AlpErTunga]

Muhammed Ali Cinnah says;

O(Atatürk), Türkiye'yi kurmakla bütün dünya uluslarına Müslümanların seslerini duyuracak kudrette olduğunu ispat etti. Kemal Atatürk'ün ölümüyle Müslüman dünyası en büyük kahramanını kaybetmiştir. Atatürk gibi önder önlerinde bir ilham kaynağı olarak dikildiği halde Hint Müslümanları bugünkü durumlarına hala razı olacaklar mı?

He(Ataturk) proved that Muslims have enough strength to have the world hear themselves, with founding Turkish Republic. With his death, the Muslim world lost his greatest hero. Although a hero like Ataturk standing in front of them as a source of inspiration, will Indian Muslims be agree to their current position?

 

[dabong1]

Muhammed Ali Cinnah:

O(Atatürk), Türkiye'yi kurmakla bütün dünya uluslarına Müslümanların seslerini duyuracak kudrette olduğunu ispat etti. Kemal Atatürk'ün ölümüyle Müslüman dünyası en büyük kahramanını kaybetmiştir. Atatürk gibi önder önlerinde bir ilham kaynağı olarak dikildiği halde Hint Müslümanları bugünkü durumlarına hala razı olacaklar mı?

He(Ataturk) proved that Muslims have enough strength to have the world hear themselves, with founding Turkish Republic. With his death, the Muslim world lost his greatest hero. Although a hero like Ataturk standing in front of them as a source of inspiration, will Indian Muslims be agree to their current position?

When did Ataturk become a muslim hero?.....i think you mean a secular hero for the western powers.

 

[niaz]

As someone who grew up as adoring Quaid e Azam; my father even bought for me recordings of Quaids speaches ( all in English); I can tell you that Pakistanis' only pay lip service to the Quaids words. They read his biography but ignore what he was and what he stood for.

Our great leader was definitely not an angel. He was very secular in his personal life. He married a Parsi lady. I remember seeing photo of him playing billiards with a brandy. His mother tongue was Gujrati and he only spoke passable Urdu. He was born an Ismaili and later converted to Athna Ashaari in 1892. ( Laskhare Jhangvi /Riaz Basra would have shot him dead as being an infidel)

He was however a man of impeccable integrity and highly intelligent. He was also a lawyer par excellence and always believed in peacful means, thus was opposed to agitation such as Satia Garah of Mahatma Gandhi. Until 1935 he was all for united India and for Hindu Muslim unity. Even as late as 1946, when he was offered Premiership of united India, he managed to get agreement from Muslim league to try the undivided India for a period of 10 years. When Jews were hounded out in 1948 and their synagogues burnt in Karachi, he was most disturbed.

What I have read about the Quaid e Azam; this includes majority of the published work about his life; and what I have gatherd about his views from the people who knew him personally. I conclude that Quaid never wanted a "theocratic state'. Once Pakistan had been created, the two nation theory ceased to be of any consequence.

Just to illustrate that even though we are discussing the sayings our great Quaid; how little Pakistanis of today care about his sayings.

'Unity, Faith and Discipline' is the most quoted saying of Quaid e Azam. Look at us, with the provincial, ethnic and sectarian problems, are we united??

Faith, what faith?? Are any of our politicians trustworthy?? Is there a single leader that we can put our faith in. Which sharia would you like to follow. Some people make out that even the Womens right's bill was a passport to fornication!!

Discipline??. Pakistanis have never even learnt to even stand in a Queue. Hell! there is queue jumping even when you go to pay the utility bill or try to buy a movie ticket. Traffic is a night mare because all and sundry jump the lights.

Brothers why discuss poor Quaids saying, in real life we dont a give fig as to what he said.

 

[AlpErTunga]

When did Ataturk become a muslim hero?.....i think you mean a secular hero for the western powers.

You can ask that question to Muhammed Ali Cinnah. But I can make a guess; maybe he founded a modern young Turkish Republic to Turkish muslims and saved them from medieval darkness.

 

[Wounded Healer]

Brothers why discuss poor Quaids saying, in real life we dont a give fig as to what he said.

Sir, that may be true for a lot of people but there are still some who hold Quaid in great esteem and try to follow his example.

you are quite right in saying that the quotes of Quaid serve no purpose today as no one follows them, but still, a soul may just see the light, a soul may just be inspired by them and who knows, we may have another Quaid in the making out there somewhere.
and as they say,· Dum vita est, spes est........this is my motto.

as for me, i am in awe of the great man......i too have read Quaid's history, and i dont care whether he was an ismaili aur whether he married a parsi woman, for me, his integrity, and his strength of character are enough.that is what i strive for.

 

[dabong1]

You can ask that question to Muhammed Ali Cinnah. But I can make a guess; maybe he founded a modern young Turkish Republic to Turkish muslims and saved them from medieval darkness.

Mohammed ali jinnah is a pakistani hero,but trying to pass him as hero for islam would be stretching it a bit.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Guest Post by Yasser Latif Hamdani

Today being 11th August Day has a great significance in Pakistan’s history.

60 years ago, Mr. Jinnah, Pakistan’s undisputed Quaid-e-Azam, Governor General and elected President of the Constituent Assembly elaborated his vision for the future of Pakistan.

Jinnah’s vision is unambiguous.

1. The state would be completely impartial to religion of the individual.
2. The state where every citizen would be equal and there would be no distinction between citizen on the basis of faith or caste or creed.

A lot of controverey has emerged about this speech. Any student of political science would tell you that is the classic exposition of a modern secular democratic state. However, the issue of whether this constitutes a “secular” state or an “Islamic” state is besides the point. A rose by any name is after all a rose.

Here is what Mr. Jinnah said on that fateful day. It is worth reading in the full:

I know there are people who do not quite agree with the division of India and the partition of the Punjab and Bengal. Much has been said against it, but now that it has been accepted, it is the duty of every one of us to loyally abide by it and honourably act according to the agreement which is now final and binding on all. But you must remember, as I have said, that this mighty revolution that has taken place is unprecedented. One can quite understand the feeling the exists between the two communities wherever one community is in majority and the other is in minority. But the question is whether it was possible or practicable to act otherwise than has been done. A division had to take place. On both sides, in Hindustan and Pakistan, there are sections of people who may not agree with it, who may not like it, but in my judgment there was no other solution and I am sure future history will record its verdict in favour of it. And what is more it will be proved by actual experience as we go on that that was the only solution of India’s constitutional problem. Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster. May be that view is correct ; may be it is not; that remains to be seen. All the same, in this division it was impossible to avoid the question of minorities being in one Dominion or the other. Now that was unavoidable. There is no other solution. Now what shall we do? Now, 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. If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet you are bound to succeed. If you change your past and work together in a spirit that every one of you, no matter to what community he belongs, no matter what relations he had with you in the past, no matter what is his colour, caste or creed, is first, second and last a citizen of this State with equal rights, privileges and obligations, there will be no end to the progress you will make.

I cannot emphasize it too much. We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities the Hindu community and the Muslim community-because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabies, Shias, Sunnis and so on and among the Hindus you have Brahmins, Vashnvas, Khatris, also Bengalis, Madrasis, and so on-will vanish. Indeed if you ask me this has been the biggest hindrance in the way of India to attain the freedom and independence and but for this we would have been free peoples long long ago. No power can hold another nation, and specially a nation of 400 million souls in subjection ; nobody could have conquered you, and even if it had happened, nobody could have continued its hold on you for any length of time but for this. Therefore we must learn a lesson from this. You are free ; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed-that has nothing to do with the business of the State. As you know, history shows that in England conditions some time ago were much worse than those prevailing in India today. The Roman Catholics and the Protestants persecuted each other. Even now there are some State in existence where there are discriminations made and bars imposed against a particular class. Thank God we are not starting in those days. We are starting in the days when there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one state. The people of England in course of time had to face the realities of the situation and had to discharge the responsibilities and burdens placed upon them by the Government of their country and they went through that fire step by step. Today you might say with justice that Roman Catholic and Protestants do not exists ; what exists now is that every man is a citizen, an equal citizen, of Great Britain and they are all members of the Nation.

Now, I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State.

Many have alleged that this was the only time he expressed such a vision. Unfortunately, these people are not very well versed with the life and work of Quaid-e-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah, who was after all a staunch secular Indian nationalist for most of his life and had turned to the Pakistan idea only after exhausting all the options for a United India.
Here are some of his other statements regarding what kind of Pakistan he wanted:

Jinnah Quaid Pakistan25th October 1947. Interview with Reuters’ Duncan Hooper note: not to be confused with his interview with Reuters’ Doon Campbell which has been quoted in detail else where.

Minorities DO NOT cease to be citizens. Minorities living in Pakistan or Hindustan do not cease to be citizens of their respective states by virtue of their belonging to particular faith, religion or race. I have repeatedly made it clear, especially in my opening speech to the constituent Assembley, that the minorities in Pakistan would be treated as our citizens and will enjoy all the rights as any other community. Pakistan SHALL pursue this policy and do all it can to create a sense of security and confidence in the Non-Muslim minorities of Pakistan. We do not prescribe any school boy tests for their loyalty. We shall not say to any Hindu citizen of Pakistan ‘if there was war would you shoot a Hindu?’

30th October 1947. To a Mass Rally at University Stadium Lahore.

The tenets of Islam enjoin on every Musalman to give protection to his neighbours and to the Minorities regardless of caste and creed. We must make it a matter of our honor and prestige to create sense of security amongst them.

Same Day. On Radio Pakistan.

Protection of Minorities is a sacred undertaking. (On Partition Massacres) Humanity cries out loud against this shameful conduct and deeds. The civilized world is looking upon these doings and happenings with horror and the fair name of the communities concerned stands blackened. Put an end to this ruthlessly and with an Iron hand.

9th January 1948. Tour of Riot affected areas of Karachi.

Muslims! Protect your Hindu Neighbours. Cooperate with the Government and the officials in protecting your Hindu Neighbours against these lawless elements, fifth columnists and cliques. Pakistan must be governed through the properly constituted Government and not by cliques or fifth columnists or Mobs.

25th January. Address to the Karachi Bar association on the occasion of Eid Milad un Nabi.

I would like to tell those who are misled by propaganda that not only the Muslims but Non Muslims have nothing to fear. Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy. Islam has taught Equality, Justice and fairplay to everybody. What reason is there for anyone to fear. Democracy, equality, freedom on the highest sense of integrity and on the basis of fairplay and justice for everyone. Let us make the constitution of Pakistan. We will make it and we will show it to the world.

3rd February 1948. Address to the Parsi Community of Sindh.

I assure you Pakistan means to stand by its oft repeated promises of according equal rights to all its nationals irrespective of their caste or creed. Pakistan which symbolizes the aspirations of a nation that found it self to be a minority in the Indian subcontinent cannot be UNMINDFUL of minorities within its own borders. It is a pity that the fairname of Karachi was sullied by the sudden outburst of communal frenzy last month and I can’t find words strong enough to condemn the action of those who are responsible.

21st March 1948. Mass Rally at Dacca.

Let me take this opportunity of repeating what I have already said: We shall treat the minorities in Pakistan fairly and justly. We shall maintain peace, law and order and protect and safeguard every citizen of Pakistan without any distinction of caste, creed or community.

22nd March 1948. Meeting with Hindu Legislators.

We guarantee equal rights to all citizens of Pakistan. Hindus should in spirit and action wholeheartedly co-operate with the Government and its various branches as Pakistanis.

23rd March 1948. Meeting with the ‘Scheduled Caste Federation’.

We stand by our declarations that members of every community will be treated as citizens of Pakistan with equal rights and privileges and obligations and that Minorities will be safeguarded and protected.

13 June 1948. Speaking to Quetta Parsis.

Although you have not struck the note of your needs and requirements as a community but it is the policy of my Government and myself that every member of every community irrespective of caste color, creed or race shall be fully protected with regard to his life, property and honor. I reiterate to you that you like all minorities will be treated as equal citizens with your rights and obligations provided you are loyal to Pakistan.

Jinnah’s address to the people of the US in Feb 1948.

In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State — to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non- Muslims — Hindus, Christians, and Parsis — but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan.

So what did Jinnah stand for?

He stood for justice and fair play for every one regardless of religion caste or creed. Let us make a solemn promise to ourselves on this 11th August Day (or the day I like to call Jinnah’s Pakistan Day) that we shall honor this vision of Pakistan as a pluralist, inclusive and progressive democratic state.

August 11: Jinnah’s Vision for Pakistan : ALL THINGS PAKISTAN

 

[salman nedian]

In Pakistan Minorities are protected more than any other country.have you ever heard about a "Hindu-Muslim Balwa" in Pakistan? Our Country is the most safest place for minorities.

We are Proud that when it comes to minority treatment Pakistan is far better than many of the Secular states of the world.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

In Pakistan Minorities are protected more than any other country.have you ever heard about a "Hindu-Muslim Balwa" in Pakistan? Our Country is the most safest place for minorities.

We are Proud that when it comes to minority treatment Pakistan is far better than many of the Secular states of the world.

Not what I learn from the Pakistani media though!

The Christians and the blasphemy issues etc

And the Ahmediyas.

Also the ranting of that Parliamentarian who is hellbent on declaring the Shia as kaffirs!

I rather not go into it and I am sure you read the Pakistani newspapers!

 

[F.O.X]

Here are some of my best Quotes of Quaid-e-Azam.

We have reached at a juncture where i shall be neglecting my prime duties if i donot make the muslims point of view known to this august audience.
I wish to informe everyone openly that the hindu muslim dispute must be settle before the enforcement of any system or constitution.or your enforce shall not last for more then 24 hours.
(1931-In a round table confrence)

No settlement with the majority is possible as no hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it
(1937-Congress Finally)


Great Brition wants to rules india, Mr.Gandhi & thr congress wants to rulw India & the Muslims. We say that we will not let either the brition or Mr.Gandhi to rule Muslims, we want to be free.
(Congress Forum 1939)

Will post more soon.



Regards
Wilco