Human history is replete with manifold examples of great heroes who have had re-chartered the course of history while building the architecture of their nations, yet rarely, there emerges a phenomenon personality as that of Quaid-e-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah’s personality is multi-faceted: he is a statesman, a constitutionalist, a democrat, a diplomat, and above all, an independence leader.Studying Jinnah is both simple and difficult. He is a blend of human character and personification. As our national hero, he commands an unmatchable diversity. It is rightly said that had there been no Jinnah, there would have been no Pakistan. It was Jinnah’s skilled statesmanship and diplomatic acumen that artfully carved out a country for the Indian Muslims against all odds– after a painstaking constitutional and an indefatigable democratic struggle. Though much has been written on Jinnah the fact remains the more we read about him more the quest. To read Jinnah is not sufficient enough unless we try to understand him as who he was, what a unique mission he had for which he harnessed his whole life. The real myth about Jinnah’s personality is the dimensional role that he imparted for the uplift of the Muslims of Subcontinent. Being already a member of the Indian National Congress, which was working for autonomy from British rule he joined the Muslim League in 1913. The league had formed a few years earlier to represent the interests of Indian Muslims in a predominantly Hindu country, and by 1916 he was elected its president. It was the Liuchow pact that rewardedhim with the title–an ambassador of Muslim-Hindu Peace and Unity. But the Post-1916 political events tried to mark a gradual shift in Jinnah’s mind and subsequently he tried to distance himself from the blend of All India National Congress.History tells us that with the start of the Non-Cooperation Movement of Mahatma Gandhi, in 1920, he had lost white heat of enthusiasm to involve in the politics of Subcontinent. These were the times since he had been in England (1920-1936) there remained a complete calm on Jinnah’s political activity. But as we leant that it was none but Allama Iqbal on whose profound motivation, Jinnah decided to come back into the politics of Sub-continent. Now, another Jinnah was incarnatedin him, a man who was completely thoughtful and poised to protect the interests of the Indian Muslims. Jinnah was articulated with an ardent faith that his mission– to fight for the rights of the Muslims of India was his uncompromising credo, it was why that he could neither be bought nor cajoled; neither be influenced nor trapped into a position that he had not himself decided upon After provincial elections in 1937, the Indian National Congress refused to form coalition administrations with the Muslim League in mixed areas. There were days of high tensions between Hindu and Muslims. In 1940, at a Muslim League session in Lahore, the first official demand was made for the partition of India and the creation of a Muslim state of Pakistan. Jinnah had always believed that Hindu-Muslim unity was possible but grudgingly came to the view that partition was the only way to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims. As a deep observer of Hindu-British hegemony, Jinnah resolutely tried to reinvent the modus operandi through which he could strongly pleader the case of Muslims before the then Masters of subcontinent. The events taking place during 1944-48 ushered in revealing in Jinnah a person of constitutional expertise. Jinnah’s political, constitutional-cum-legislative fight with Lord Mountbatten needs no explanation. After the “Direct Action” resolution was passed by the Muslim League on July 19, 1946, its president, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, gave his famous oratory: “What we have done today is the most historic act in our history. Never have we in the whole history of the League done anything except by the constitutional methods and by constitutionalism. But now we are obliged and forced into this position. This day we bid goodbye to constitutional methods…. Now the time has come for the Muslim Nation to resort to direct action. I am not prepared to discuss ethics. We have a pistol and are in a position to use it.” On the issue of leadership and organizational behaviour our Quaid once said: “If you change your past and work together in a spirit that every one of you, no matter to what community he belongs, no matter what relations he had with you in the past, no matter what his colour, caste or creed, is first, second and last a citizen of this State with equal rights, privileges and obligations, there will be no end to the progress you will make.” In Max Weber’s identified three dimensional concepts of leadership, traditional leadership, legal and rational leadership, and charismatic leadership, Jinnah appears to have richly fulfilled the criteria of charismatic leadership. Certainly, it is the crises that shape and create a schismatic leader. Jinnah’s political sagacity has been unprecedented. He was articulated with an ardent faith that his mission– to fight for the rights of the Muslims of India was his uncompromising credo, it was why that he could neither be bought nor cajoled; neither be influenced nor trapped into a position that he had not himself decided upon. Jinnah not only could feel Muslim aspirations but he was the only Muslim leader of India who could foil the designs of the British diplomacy-to kill the creation of Pakistan. Truly, none of his opponents and particularly the nationalist Muslims, who were pro-Congress, could offer any viable alternative– to protect the rights of Muslims — as one was ardently defended and debated by our leader.His conceived ideological Weltanschauungs of the Pakistani state were based on the principles of equal rights of citizenship for people of different religious nomenclature and ethnicities, a tolerant and pluralist Pakistan. His resolve is reflective in these words: ”Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can undo Pakistan”. However, while juxtaposing Jinnah with other great names Abram Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, Mao Zedong, Mahatma Gandhi, KonredAdnenauerand Nelson Mandela and so on, we find him standing higher among them. Be it the forceful accounts of Jinnah’s life reflected to us via Wolpert’s Jinnah’s Pakistan, or through the memoirs of Hector Bolitho’s Jinnah: creator of Pakistan or be it a thought-provoking Jinnah Anthology authoredby therenowned researcher on Jinnah Sharif-ul-Mujahid late and Liaqat Merchant, the study on Jinnah yet remains a continuous discovery process. While commenting on Jinnah’s role, the Nottingham Journal in 1956 observed: “By the test of sheer achievement, Mohammed Ali Jinnah must be reckoned as one of the most dynamic and successful political leaders thrown up by the present century”. Today, we need to resurrect and revivethe rectitude of his conduct in our national affairs. In this hour of national and global emergency of coronavirus crisis, we must follow his famous precept: faith, unity and discipline. The writer is an independent ‘IR’ researcher and international law analyst based in Pakistan