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It is said of the great men and may also be incurred from the folds of history that they never
waited for opportunities; they created them. What was All India Muslim League more than a
political entity or body that is hesitant, dwindling and subservient never to accomplish anything
great or like a satellite, void of self-control, oscillating between one opinion and another, mired
by indecisiveness and with its loyalty strongly linked to a power out of its own whole, when
Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined it? At this juncture, political might of the Congress, the rival
political camp, is also worth noting that is dominating the environment so much so to the eclipse
of all other. But to confront these challenges at dual fronts, one from within the AIML that is
wavering and fragile and the Congress that is overwhelmingly assertive and the other from the
Colonialist imperial powers pitted pervasively to deny the locales of their right to selfdetermination, Muslims find in Muhammad Ali Jinnah a Quaid to whom opposing circumstance
means more strength, opposition for more power to resist and confronting one barrier signifies
into ability to overcome the next. Thoughts that wander, eyes that blanch, nerves that relax were
unknown to Jinnahs self-poised mind. Through rectitude and firmness of his personality, he led
his people up through the Indians belligerent minds, up through the Britains imperial rule, and
liberated them and made them stand on foundations supplied with permanent flow of
nationalistic aspirations.
The life of the legend Robert the Bruce furnishes for us one of the most remarkable insights; he
drew his victory not from the benevolence of others and also not from the distorted frightened
outlook of his adversary but out of some of the most terrifying experiences. Six times he tried to
save his land from the devastating advance of his enemy and six times his stand met with utter
embarrassment. But then fascinated by the obstinate determination of a spider which was trying
again and again to swing herself upon the slender thread to make her way towards the other edge
of the cave and finally succeeded, Robert arose, strived to unite his men, and offered his enemy a
last stand. The stroke was decisive; enemys army was perished, their ranks were severed forcing
the King of England to retreat thus marking the day with his gallantry at the end of the battle. His
majestic statue at the Bannockburn battlefield communicates us a simple yet much-celebrated
sense that the victories should be won and gifts should be discovered by everyone within ones
own soul.
See how the magnificent monuments and statues are formed; they are chiselled into grace and
beauty from weirdly-looking rocks through the operations of blasting, drilling, hammering and
squaringthe very processes that are otherwise, quintessentially, terribly awful. Who best can
suffer, said Milton, best can do at a time when he, himself, was overtaken by blindness,
sickness and desperate wants, however, remained unyielding and produced the best of his works.
The strongest and the most refined characters of mankind, in fact, evolved on the bed of a
stubborn soil and amidst the elements of a trying climate.
Isnt the story of Disraeli remarkable who because of his origin from a race most hated and most
persecuted in the then Britain was lampooned, mocked and ridiculed time and again? Aided by
his bitter experiences with the misfortunes, and strengthened by enough failures and defeats in
his bag, he suffered not even the least for he knew that from these ugly gashes often flowed the
perennial fountains of richest melodies. And the fountain did flow from the wide chasm of which
trickled down the Britain a quarter of century the sceptre of which was completely swayed by
this boythe Disraeli.
It is almost natural for anyone to confront barriers who endeavours to elevate himself from the
circumstances he is born to or was raised in. When you get into a tight place and everything
goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, said Harriet Beecher
Stowe, never give up, for thats just the place and time that the tidell turn. Charles Sumner
said, Three things are necessary to a strong character: First, backbone; second, backbone; third,
backbone as It is victory after victory with the soldier, asserts Orison Swett, lesson after
lesson with the scholar, blow after blow with the labourer, crop after crop with the farmer,
picture after picture with the painter, and mile after mile with the traveller that secures what all
so much desireSuccess.
All great men and women owe their chief accomplishments to this spirit of never giving up.
Otherwise, what was Jinnah other than the son of a merchant, Shakespeare than the descendant
of a wool stapler, Benjamin Franklin of a candle maker, and Horace than that of a scion of a
shopkeeper?