Jinnah (1998)

Actors

• Shashi Kapoor (actor)
• Christopher Lee (actor)
• Marc Zuber (actor)
• David Sterne (actor)
• Vernon Dobtcheff (actor)
• James Fox (actor)
• Robert M. Reitano (editor)
• Jamil Dehlavi (director)
• Jamil Dehlavi (producer)
• Jamil Dehlavi (writer)
• Roger Brierley (actor)
• Richard Lintern (actor)
• John Grillo (actor)
• Michael Elwyn (actor)
• Jane Jackson (producer)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama
• War

Taglines:

He fought for justice, and made Pakistan.

Quotes:

Jinnah: At this moment, the destiny of India lies in the hands of two men, and one of them is Gandhi.

Narrator: Do you know where you are?::Mohammed Ali Jinnah: I believe I have some idea.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah: [to a fundamentalist] You are an ignorant fool. I have fought for your mother, your sister, and your children's children to live in dignity. Islam doesn't need fanatics like you, Islam needs men of vision who will build the country. Now grow up, and serve Pakistan!

Famous quotes by Muhammad Iqbal:

"The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality."

"Set not the chain of Fate upon thy foot. There is a way beyond this rolling sphere."

"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass."

"Words, without power, is mere philosophy."

"The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God."

"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."

"If your liver becomes blood through this your destiny, then ask God for another destiny. It is possible that you request from God another destiny."

"I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips."

"Art is a sacred lie"

"Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings"

"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer."

"Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions."

"The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something."

"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."

"Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution."

"Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight."

"When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry."

"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry."

"It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising."

"If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion."