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In modern times there have been several examples of men of outstanding calibre rescuing their people from degradation and enslavement. Their task, however, was comparatively easier, as their people were already free peoples. They had not lost their spirit and fighting qualities, and hot only to struggle for retaining their freedom. But in a subject country like India which had been under alien rule for about a hundred and fifty years it was nothing short of a miracle to have raised dead people back to life, in fact to have created a unified nation out of a torpid mass of scattered, demoralised and dispirited people who had lost all sense of self-respect and self-assertion. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah raised them to a status of prestige and dignity, so that Muslim India came to be recognised as a constituent factor in the framing of constitutional scheme, and it was established that no constitution which did not recieve their willing assent could be enacted or enforced.
It was natural that, from the time he began to organize the Muslims for the protection of their rights, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah was not a persona grata with the Congress and other Hindu circles. He was painted as a villain of the piece, as the stumbling block in the way of India’s freedom. There was no abusive epithet, no calumny, no vituperation, no scurrilous attack that was not hurled at him. But he stood firm as a rock against all odds. Neither flattery and laudation could deflect him from his course not threat and calumny unnerve him. No price could purchase him and no temptation lead him astray. He remained unaffected by all the bitterness the Congress had created all round and worked with his characteristic dignity and magnanimity right till the end, But he could never be taken in by the designs of the opponents of Muslim freedom. He had a knack of check-mating and foiling the moves and manoeuvres to entrap and injure the Muslims.