Muhammad Ali Jinnah: The Man of Resolution

Muhammad Ali Jinnah [1876-1948], well-known as Quaid-e-Azam, the great leader was, is and will be remembered in the pages of the world history. Though, he did not start his life as a politician yet he proved his competence in politics as well. It on the one hand was the thirst of a roving nation and the there was the birth of a new country on the map of the world on the other. There was a dire need of such a person who could accrue the buoyancy and conviction to a nation and provide itinerary to them. That was really a wakeup call. It was the dawning period to offer praying hands to the emerging country. Everywhere, there was a riot, confusion, bewilderment, panic, uncertainty and so on; and the things were really in a great mess; there was an immediate want of a healer to soothe all those hurts. In those crucial times, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, with his firm fortification and resolution, came up to as the savior of the dusk-oriented conditions and became the morning star of the Muslim country, Pakistan. And the newly created country and the peripatetic nation sighed placidly that at last they found a person who deserved to be called the pioneer of the country, father of the nation, Baba e Qaum.

In the context of becoming founder and champion of the Muslim country, Pakistan, Jinnah can not be blamed as the leader of only of his own religious people. He was by and large a great statesman and always will be remembered positively in the world. This is not only believed by the Muslims and Pakistanis but was also affirmed by the Hindu author Jaswant Singh in his newly published book in India. If Jaswant Singh’s statement my be seen in the historical perspective that the history and the people of sub-continent may have the memory of Lukhnow pact and the joint session of Muslim League and the All India Congress in 1916. These were the days when he was titled as the Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity. From that, it can be construed that Jinnah had the qualities of leadership and statesmanship of not only Muslims but for larger country. He not only worked for united India to drive the British out of the sub-continent but also had the vision of the consequences of the split of the India. Same thing was seen during the time of partition which Jinnah did not want to experience. There was not only a country partitioning but millions of Muslims and the Muslim remnant of thousands of years of co-existence of the sub-continent was alienated. Muhammad Ali Jinnah worked for to strengthen the unity of Hindu-Muslims until there appeared the notorious Nehru Report in 1928, denigrating the potential existence and the rights of the Muslims.

Noor Jahan The Queen of Melody

Noor Jahan the most influential singer of South Asia, her real name is Allah Wasai. Noor Jahan was born on September 21, 1926 in a Punjabi musician’s family. She got honorific title as Malika-e-Taram(Queen of Melody). She was not only a singer but actress as well. Noor Jahan was more interested in acting and graced so many films of Pakistan with her wonderful performance.

She sung songs in many languages of India and Pakistan such as,

• Urdu
• Hindi
• Punjabi
• Sindhi

She holds the highest record of film songs in the history of Pakistani Cinema. Noor Jahan is also the first female film director of Pakistan. After she quit acting, she went for playback singing. She made her debut as a playback singer in 1960 with the film Salma.

Her first initial playback for a Pakistani film was for Jan-e-Bahar (1958), in which she sang the song Kaisa Naseeb Layi Thi.

CO-EXISTENCE IS THE WAY TO CHANGE THE WORLD

I don’t understand the logic and reason, why I would have problem if someone wishes to practice his/her religion and live their lives according to their beliefs.

I don’t find a single State in the World which prohibits minorities from practicing their religion and implementing their religious dogmas on themselves. Whether the practices , the tenets and the code of belief are right or wrong, as long as it doesn’t materially breaches any Law or any individual s’ rights, why someone would be intolerant and rude.

Today, we are experiencing a lot of facilities due to kindness of Modern Technology, but still we have the large number of people committing Suicides. We are lacking Tolerance, so is the reason we have hatred, Jealousy, Tensions, Depressions in our Societies.

 I do believe intolerance is related to materialism, materialist thought has just destroyed human values, people are relying more on material things than on God. However, we are the most progressive nations in the human history but yet we are the most disturbed at the same time. Why Should I spread hate if I can’t spread love, Why should I be rude to my class fellow or my colleague if I can’t improve my work.. Why I’m not understanding this principle that God has created everyone differently and gave everyone different qualities and abilities. Why I should be biased about someone s’ quality of faith, God knows the things which are even in someone s’ heart so why should I blame or criticize someone about ones’ quality of faith.

I don’t get this why one is ignorant even one is highly educated, how he says he is educated where at the same time he doesn’t let others to feel freedom. Can one still be calling oneself a good human being without Co-Existence??

History of Sindhi Culture

The roots of Sindhi culture and civilization go back to the distant past. Archaeological researches during 19th and 20th centuries showed the roots of social life, religion and culture of the people of the Sindh: their agricultural practices, traditional arts and crafts, customs and tradition and other parts of social life, going back to a ripe and mature Indus valley civilization of the third millennium B.C. Recent researches have traced the Indus valley civilization to even earlier ancestry.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES

Archaeological discoveries sometimes help to unfold the certain latent aspects of a specific culture. The excavations of Mohenjo-daro have unfolded the city life of a civilization of people with values, a distinct identity and culture. Therefore, the first definition of the Sindhi culture emanates from that over the 7000 year old Indus Valley Civilization. This is the pre-Aryan period, about 3,000 years B.C., when the urban civilization in Sindh was at its peak.

ISLAM IN SINDH

From the beginning of Muslim rule of the Sindh in 713 CE, the Muslim technocrats, bureaucrats, soldiers, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, theologians and Sufis travelled from the rest of the Muslim world to the Islamic Sultanate in Sindh, and settled there permanently. The majority of Sindhis converted to Islam by the Sufi mystics from Middle East and Central Asia. The Sindh became distinct in its identity and culture, and many contemporary writers in medieval age referred to Sindh and Hind as two different countries. The Sindhi culture flourished with a new stimulus from Islamic sources from Persia and Afghanistan. Many Baloch and Afghan tribes also settled in Sindh, adopting Sindhi culture.

Aryan Influence on Culture

The second impact on the norms and practices of Sindhis was the subjugation of Sindh at the hans of Aryans around 2,500 B.C. The Aryan impact on Sindhi culture was great and the subsequent changes imprinted on the psyche of the Sindhi people should be judged in the light of the changes which they had undergone at the hands of the Aryans. The Aryans were nomadic, but, the peace-loving Moenjodaro civilization people had been enjoying for a long time the fruits of settled urban life with municipal community-based living. The Aryans were, thus, overawed. They adopted the Sindhi cultured way of life. They had little to offer Sindh, except their fondness for the supernatural and abstraction. Though hunting the prey absorbed quite a lot of their time, their Rishis managed to solicit favours from there gods. The Aryans, in exchange for their supernatural tendencies, borrowed from the Dravidians their god of Shakti, later on canonised as Siva, in place of Aryan god Rudhra, and thus the Hindu trinity was completed. With the sway of the Aryans, the Sindhi culture underwent a big change. The adversity of subjugation made Sindhis a bit fatalistic. Much of their martial fervor was gone while the Aryans perfected, rather embellished their religion, after their contact with the indigenous population of Sindh.