I wish to compare here Nehru and Jinnah, Jinnah married Raten
Bai converted her to Islam, Nehru married to Kamla – who was a Hindu
,both had a daughter each, both Indira and Dina were each married to
parsee, jinnah tried to stop Dina marrying parsee christian but in
vain. On the contrary Nehru, although initially was a bit uncomfortable
with Indira’a choice of a parsee youth, he later accepted it &
played his role as a father in the bestowal ceremony of his daughter.
This simple facts may reflect their mental status & orientation
towards adjustment, adaptation and reconditioning with the eventuality
even at family level. Jinnah kept his own opinion at the top ignoring
those of others, but probably in his daughter’s case there is more to
it. Jinnah’s two nation theory is purely pro-Islamic. It is not true
that he did not practice Islam, & just to avoid Hindu dominance he
wanted Pakistan. That Jinnah(1876-1948) drank whiskey & ate pork( http://ww.atimes.net/The-Edge/South-Asia/47711-Quaid-e-Azam-was-not-secular-says-Dr-Javed-Iqbal.htm)
was his personal fascination, habit & weakness, like that he
smoked 50 cigs per day, which he could not give up even after he
developed TB. In personal life when he became very fond of less- than-
half-of-his-age-old Ranten Bai Petit an underaged(1900-1929)daughter of
his Parsee friend, he waited untill she became 18, & got married in
1918 only to become separated in 1927, & Raten bai died in 1929.
His daughter Dina (1919 - )did not get along well with him they had many
differences Dina did not go to stay Pakistan– the nation for the
realization of which her father worked so hard. In Dina’s childhood
Jinnah did instruct his sister Fatima Jinnah to teach her the religious
teachings of Holy Islam ("Jinnah & Islam" - Jinnah raised his
daughter as a Muslim. According to Jinnah's chauffeur Bradbury, Jinnah
asked his sister, Fatima, "to teach her niece, Dina (Jinnah’s only
daughter) about Islam and The Holy Qur'an" Mr. Qutbuddin Aziz quoting
Bradbury who had been chauffeur during his London years 1930-35 ). Dina
married Nevillein in 1938,( a Parsi who first converted to Christianity
& then reconverted to Zoroastrianism) ( http://www.paklinks.com/gs/all-views/165215-dina-wadia.html).
Jinnah did not want Dina to get married to a man of different
religious denomination, writes Mohammedali Currim Chagla who had been
the assistant of Jinnah at the time- "Jinnah, in his usual
imperious manner, told her that there were millions of Muslim boys in
India, and she could have anyone she chose. Reminding her father that
his wife (Dina's mother Rattanbai), had also been a non-Muslim, the
young lady replied: 'Father, there were millions of Muslim girls in
India. Why did you not marry one of them?'”And he replied that, 'she became a Muslim” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Wadia)
Jinnah’s will in 1939 included three muslim institution 1)Sind madrasa , 2)Aligarg & 3)Islamia college in peshwar but did not include his only daughter Dina.
(Dina has been involved in litigation regarding Jinnah House in Mumbai Malabar hils claiming that Hindu Law is applicable to Jinnah as he was a Khoja Shia.)
Jinnah’s will in 1939 included three muslim institution 1)Sind madrasa , 2)Aligarg & 3)Islamia college in peshwar but did not include his only daughter Dina.
(Dina has been involved in litigation regarding Jinnah House in Mumbai Malabar hils claiming that Hindu Law is applicable to Jinnah as he was a Khoja Shia.)
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