The Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was one of the greatest leaders of the modern age who not only led his people to independence but founded a separate homeland for them where they could mould their lives by following the teachings of the Holy Quran and traditions of Islam and cultivate their culture and civilisation.
This was a far greater achievement of the Quaid-i-Azam than of any other national liberation leader. Others struggled for independence within states already in existence but the Quaid-i-Azam sought a separate homeland where none had existed. This he achieved almost single-handedly and constitutionally as also in the teeth of opposition.
Stanley Wolpert has rightly said about the Quaid-i-Azam that “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. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three”.
Pakistan was not just the emergence of a new state but was created on the basis of Islamic ideology.
The main objective of the Pakistan movement was not to separate some provinces to save them from Hindu domination. Had it been so the Muslims of the minority provinces would never have taken the active part in the freedom movement.
The Muslims of the minority provinces knew that if Pakistan was created they would gain nothing, instead might lose everything. In fact, the Muslims of South Asia believed that they were not fighting for territory only, but for the preservation of their culture and civilisation, language and literature and Islamic way of life.
