Almost every one has a role model that he/she admires. Most people tend to be inspired by people who have done something good to them or their community. Political Leaders can be easily labeled as role models, they not only serve individuals but whole race or country. My role model is a politician who helped millions of Muslims. Muhammad Ali Jinnah serves as a role model for not only me, but for millions of other people too. In the time of violent politics in British India, he was trying to restore peace and stability among different political and religious parties, especially Hindus and Muslims. His greatest achievement, though, was the foundation of Pakistan, despite the intense opposition from the Hindus and British.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah "favored Indian home rule through a gradual, constitutional process which would ensure unity of the various communities"(Coulter 1109). At that time Muslims and Hindus were fighting for the independence of India, the "leave India" movement was successful in uniting Hindus and Muslims at one cause. And Jinnah wanted just that, "peace and friendship between Hindus and Muslims" (Miller 116). So he joined the All India National Congress or simply known as congress. But when Ghandi, "whose policies of civil disobedience he disagreed with, became its leader"(Miller 116) Jinnah left the Congress. His " logical, precise, and self controlled mind rejected communal violence and supported constitutional guarantees for all Indians" (Coulter 1111). Jinnah thought that Hindus and other minorities especially the largest minority; the Muslims should live in peace and harmony

But by that time, wishes of a separate Muslim country, were being made among some Muslims. But no official demand was raised for such a cause. Because Jinnah was the first Indian and especially Muslim to get a degree of law; he was very famous among Indians. So, some Muslims wanted him to raise a voice for a Muslim state out of British India, but he "was confident that he could safe guard the future of the Muslims by constitutional provisions" (Coulter 1109). Jinnah had "devoted himself to the goal of an independent, unified India with communal harmony achieved between Hindus" (Coulter 1111) and Muslims. Even though he was not successful in uniting Hindus and Muslims, he was awarded the title of the "best ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity" (Encyclopedia Britannica 555).

In 1913 Jinnah joined the Muslim league, which was divided in two groups, one wanted a confederation of one Hindu and one Muslim states with only defense, foreign affairs and postal service common, but the other wanted a unified India after British. Because Jinnah also wanted a unified India "he lead a Muslim League faction that opposed " (Coulter 1110) a separate country. During 1920's "Jinnah's desire for moderate no confrontational programs were rejected"(Coulter 1110), so he left the Muslim League. "He gradually regained positions of prominence in political circles and went to London to participate in the Round Table conferences on India" (Coulter 1110), which produced no results. Then for 4 years he started to practice law in the London's Privy council "the highest court in the empire" (Coulter 1110). After 4 years he came back to Bombay to help restructure Muslim League and started to file "appeals to Congress to support Muslim demands and to present a common front against the British", which failed to have an impact on Congress's policy toward Muslims. So Jinnah, in 1937, "moved toward the leader ship of All-India Muslim League" (Coulter 1110), which would combine all the Muslim parties in India. Then in 1940, the concept of united India was shattered at a conference in Lahore on 23 March. It was the turning point between the relations of Hindus and Muslims, because Muslims ware officially demanding a separate country carves out of India, and Hindus were outraged by the demands of Muslims to divide their Maha Baharat, or mother India. At the conference, the name of the country was also chosen, Pakistan meaning the land of pure.

For the next seven year, until the success came in August, 1947,

Jinnah devoted himself to the establishment of Pakistan and division f

India. He resisted all compromise whether offered by the British, the

Hindus, or his fellow Muslims. (Coulter 1110)

To him Pakistan was the only way he could protect the Muslims "because he feared Muslims would be excluded from power or prospects of advancement in the close-knit structure of Hindu social organization and their majority state" (Coulter 1110). "He used his skill as barrister to serve as the Muslim voice in India, to found the nation-state of Pakistan, and to build it's every structure as the first governor general" (Coulter 1112). Jinnah led his movement against the men with "the stature of Ghandi and Jawaharlal Nehru. And British government seemed to be intent on maintaining the political unity of Indian sub-continent" (Encyclopedia Britannica 556). However Jinnah's arguments were so powerful and his speeches so persuasive that British throne and congress had "no option" (Encyclopedia Britannica 556) but accept division of India.

Formation of a country for Muslims, out of India, is a crowning achievement of Jinnah's life. It also is the proof of that man can achieve the "impossible" (a literary term, not from any source). "He is revered today as Pakistan's founding father" (Coulter 1112), and only he is known as the supreme leader, the Quaid-e-Azam. "Jinnah spent his life as a freedom fighter: first, for freedom from British colonial rule; then for civil freedom for Muslim minority in India; and, finally, for guaranteed freedoms in the new state of Pakistan" (Coulter 1111). Stanley Wolport, Writes, "few individuals alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly any one can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammed Ali Jinnah did all three". (www.cs.utexas.edu/users.hhasan/pakistan/jinnah.html)
There are some of the famous people and their remarks about Mohammed Ali Jinnah. The "author of `Verdict on India', called him "the most important man in Asia". Dr. Kailashnath Katju, the governor of West Bengal in 1948, "thought of him as "an outstanding figure of this century not only in India, but in the whole world". "While Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, called him "one of the greatest leaders in the Muslim world"". The Grand Mufti of Palestine considered his death as a "great loss" to the entire world of Islam. But Sarat Chandra Bose, leader of the Forward Bloc wing of the Indian National Congress got to "sum up succinctly his personal and political achievements. When he was dying in 1948 he said that Jinnah "Was great as a lawyer, once great as a Congressman, great as a leader of Muslims, great as a world politician and diplomat, and greatest of all as a man of action." (Pakistan official homepage Quaid-e-Azam section).