25 December Quaid e Azam Day

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.” 

Born at Wazir Mansion in Karachi, Jinnah was trained as a barrister at Lincoln’s Inn in London, England. Upon his return to British India, he enrolled at the Bombay High Court, and took an interest in national politics, which eventually replaced his legal practice. Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress in the first two decades of the 20th century. In these early years of his political career, Jinnah advocated Hindu–Muslim unity, helping to shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the All-India Muslim League, in which Jinnah had also become prominent. Jinnah became a key leader in the All-India Home Rule League, and proposed a fourteen-point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. In 1920, however, Jinnah resigned from the Congress when it agreed to follow a campaign of satyagraha, which he regarded as political anarchy.

The 25th December holiday is celebrated annually. It commemorates the birthday of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who was a notable politician, founder of Pakistan, and Pakistan’s first Governor-General. The day may be known as ‘Birthday of Quaid-e-Azam’, Quaid-e-Azam meaning Great Leader.  the day is marked with celebrations like wreath-laying ceremonies at Quaid’s mausoleum in Karachi, flag-hoisting ceremonies, and seminars, speeches, and special programs to honor Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his independence struggle for Pakistan.

In the early ages, Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a huge ambassador of the two-nation theory that determines that there are two different people living in the Sub-continent and both should be treated fairly as they both have equal rights but due to the unfair treatment of Hindus soon Mr. Jinnah realized that it was of no use and he laid the foundation of the first-ever Muslim political party when he formed the All India Muslim League in 1919. By 1940 Muslim League, led by Jinnah, passed the Lahore Resolution, demanding a separate nation for British Indian Muslims. During the Second World War, the League gained strength while leaders of the Congress were imprisoned, and in the provincial elections held shortly after the war, it won most of the seats reserved for Muslims. Ultimately, the Congress and the Muslim League could not reach a power-sharing formula that would allow the entirety of British India to be united as a single state following independence, leading all parties to agree instead to the independence of a predominantly Hindu India, and for a Muslim-majority state of Pakistan.

“Azad Hain Azad Rahain Ge Ye Musalmaan
Eh Quaid E Azam Tera Ahsan Hai Ahsan
Yun Di Hamain Azadi K Duniya Hui Hairan
Eh Quaid E Azam Tera Ahsan Hai Ahsan”

As the first Governor-General of Pakistan, Jinnah worked to establish the new nation’s government and policies and to aid the millions of Muslim migrants who had emigrated from neighboring India to Pakistan after the two states’ independence, personally supervising the establishment of refugee camps. Jinnah died at age 71 in September 1948, just over a year after Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom.

The nation will celebrate the birth anniversary of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah on 25 December every year. The day will dawn with special prayers for the security, progress, and prosperity of the country. Special events will be arranged to highlight and promote the ideas and views of the Quaid-i-Azam. The celebrations will be aimed at educating the youth about Quaid’s vision and Pakistan’s ideology. Quran Khawani would be held at the Mazar-i-Quaid in Karachi while a change of guards ceremony would also take place.

The Pakistan National Council of the Arts will hold a grand program titled `Millat ka Pasban’ aimed to shed light on the Quaid’s teachings for the youth about what they need to do for their country to transform it into a healthy nation. A photo exhibition will also be held to pay homage to the Quaid-i-Azam and the services he rendered for the creation of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the sub-continent.

Being Muslims and also being Pakistani we should pay tribute to this mesmerizing leader one nation can ever have, the only difference between the Pakistan of today and at the time of Independence is that at that time Muslims were having a nation but no separate homeland but now we do have a separate homeland but unfortunately our nation has lost in the darkness.

 “We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honorable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation…”

― Muhammad Ali Jinnah