• Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born on December 25, 1876 in Karachi (Wazir Mansion).
• His father’s name was Jinnah bhai Poonja.
• His mother’s name was Mithibai Jinnah.
• Quaid-e-Azam was the eldest of seven children of Jinnah Bhai Poonja.
• In 1887, Quaid-e-Azam was sent to the Sind Madrasat Al-Islam, Karachi.
When Quaid-e-Azam was nearly 11 years old, his aunt enrolled him in the Gokal Das Tej Primary School in Bombay.
• Within just six months he was sent back to Karachi from Bombay.
• At the age of Sixteen, Quaid-e-Azam passed the matriculation examination of the University of Bombay from the Christian Missionary Society High School in Karachi.
• The 15-year-old Jinnah entered into an arranged marriage with his 14-year-old bride and cousin Emibai, on February 1892.
• Emibai was from the village of Paneli in India.
• He departed Karachi in January of 1893.
• Emibai died a few months after Jinnah’s departure.
• Jinnah’s mother, Mithibai, also passed away during his stay in London.
• On March 30, 1895 Jinnah applied to Lincoln’s Inn Council for the alteration of his name from Mahomed Ali Jinnah bhai to Mahomed Ali Jinnah, which granted to him in April 1895.
• Jinnah was greatly influenced by the liberalism of William E. Gladstone.
• William E. Gladstone had become the Prime Minister of UK for the fourth time in 1892.
• Jinnah returned to Karachi in 1896.
• Jinnah started his legal practice in Bombay in 1896.
• Jinnah was enrolled as a barrister in Bombay’s high court on August 24, 1896.
• Jinnah first entered politics by participating in the 1906 session of the Indian National Congress held at Calcutta.
• In politics, he admired Dadabhai Naoroji and another brilliant Parsi leader Sir Pherozeshah Mehta.
• It was Pherozeshah Mehta, who entrusted him to defend him in the famous Caucus Case.
• Jinnah hit the headlines in this case.
• Jinnah was elected as member of Imperial Legislative Council from Bombay on January 4, 1910.
• Jinnah became a member of the All India Muslim League on October 10, 1913.
• Muhammad Ali Johar convinced Quaid-A-zam to join AIML.
• In October 1917, he joined the Home Rule League founded by Annie Besant..
• On the internment of Annie Besant, he became President of the Home Rule League of Bombay on 17th June 1918.
• Jinnah earned the title of “the best ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity” an epithet coined by Gokhale.
• In 1915 the two organizations held their meetings in Bombay and in 1916 in Lucknow, where the Lucknow Pact was concluded.
• Lucknow Pact was signed between congress and Muslim League in 1916 at Lucknow (Congress accepted separate electorate for Muslims for the first time).
• Jinnah married with a Parsi girl Rattenbai (Rutti) on Friday, April 19, 1918, the daughter of Sir Dinshaw Petit, a Bombay Parsi millionaire.
• Their only child, a daughter named Dina was born in London.
• Quaid-e-Azam resigned from the membership of Imperial Legislative Council on the account of Rowlatt Act 1919.
• Jinnah left the Congress Party in 1920.
• On March 28, 1929, Jinnah termed the Nehru report as a Hindu Document and presented his famous 14 points.
• From 1930 to 1934 he remained in London, devoting himself to practice before the Privy Council.
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah attended first round table conference in 1930 in London (remained in London till 1934).
• Quaid e Azam became permanent president of All India Muslim League in 1934.
• Fatima Jinnah joined All India Muslim League in 1938.
• The title of “Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity “was given to Quaid-e-Azam by Sarojini Naidu.
• The title of “Quaid e Azam” was given to Muhammad Ali Jinnah by Maulana Mazhar uddin Shaheed.
• On the request of Jinnah, the Muslim League Observed Day of Deliverance on December 22, 1939. (after the resignation of Congress ministries).
• On March 22-23, 1940, in Lahore, the AIML adopted a resolution to form a separate Muslim state, Pakistan.
• Jinnah Presided the Lahore Session of Muslim league.
• Jinnah started Divide and Quit India movement in 1942 after Gandhi started Quit India Movement
• Gandhi Jinnah talks started in 1944 but failed
• Pakistan emerged as an independent state on 14 August 1947
• On August 11, 1947 Jinnah was elected as the president of the constituent assembly of Pakistan.
• Quaid-e-Azam became first Governor General of the nascent state of Pakistan on August 15, 1947.
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah, inaugurated the State Bank of Pakistan on 1st July 1948.
• Parents of Muhammad Ali Jinnah were basically from Kathiawar Gujrat (Gujrat is the home town of Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi).
• Mother language of Quaid-e-Azam was Gujrati.
• Jinnah spent last days of his life at Ziarat, Balochistan.
• Quaid-e-Azam died on 11 September, 1948.
• Yahya Merchant, an Indian architect, had developed the design of Quaid’s tomb.
• Shabbir Ahmed Usmani offered funeral prayers of M. Ali Jinnah (Shabbir Ahmad Usmani also hoisted national flag for first time on the advice of Quid e Azam M. Ali Jinnah. •He was the only religious leader who did not need to seek appointment premission to visit Quid-e- Azam.