Maryam Jinnah \ Ratanbai second wife of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Maryam Jinnah,
مریم جناح \ رتن بائی
Maryam Jinnah \ Ratanbai
February 20 is also the birthday and anniversary of the second wife of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Maryam Jinnah, also known as Ratan Bai.
Maryam Jinnah \ Ratanbai
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20 February 1900 : Born
20 February 1929 Date of Death
February 20 is also the birthday and anniversary of the second wife of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Maryam Jinnah, also known as Ratan Bai.
At the time of marriage with Quaid-e-Azam, she converted to Islam and her Islamic name was Maryam Jinnah.
Maryam Jinnah was the only daughter of Sardansha Pittet and her family was a big name in the textile industry. Maryam Jinnah was born on February 20, 1900 in Bombay. His great grandfather came to Bombay from Swat in 1785 and then started doing business there. His son Dinsha Manakji founded the first cotton mill of the subcontinent in Bombay. By the end of the 1900s, Mankji's family became known as one of the richest families in Bombay. The only beautiful and well-behaved daughter of Dinshaw Patit, an important Parsi noble of Mumbai, who was growing up in great grace, her name was Ratan Bai. This girl was not only beautiful but also very intelligent and had good taste. Ratan, affectionately called "Rati" by the family, had a poetic temperament. Ratanbai had a deep passion for English poetry and literature. At the age of 13-14, she had read and understood poets like Tennyson, Keats and Shelley. Rati was a well-dressed woman, a distinguishing feature in Bombay. Begums of governors, viceroys and princes were very fond of his clothes and ornaments, but it would not be wrong to say that women were jealous.
Nationalist Indian leaders used to visit Dinshaw's magnificent bungalow on Malabar Hill. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was one of the friends of Sir Dinshaw Pettit. Sir Dinshaw Pettit was very fond of Muhammad Ali Jinnah Sahib for his intelligence, sophistication and ability. Jinnah Sahib (Quaid-e-Azam) often went to his house where there were good discussions. Seventeen-year-old Ratan, a tall, fair-skinned, slim-bodied, sooted-booted Jinnah, listened intently to Jinnah's witty discussions, and slowly began to like Jinnah. Jinnah was touched at the very first sight. His personality impressed Ratan aka Rati so much that their friendship turned into intimacy and then intimacy into love. And then one day this liking turned into love. When Rati spoke her heart to Jinnah Sahib and expressed her desire for marriage.
One evening in 1917, during a discussion on nationalism, Ratan's father Dinshaw expressed the idea that until communal harmony is established in our country, there will be riots and therefore there should be inter-faith marriages. Jinnah, who had crossed the age of forty, was encouraged by Dinshaw's idea and asked for her daughter's hand in marriage. What was it then? The fervent Dunshaw Pettit's blood ran high and that night turned into a bitter memory. Dinshaw flatly refused, saying that Muhammad Ali Jinnah was much older than his daughter, and that the two had different religions. Rati's family was the most popular Parsi family in Bombay. Jinnah Sahib explained to Rati that our marriage cannot happen before your 18 years of age, we have to wait. When Dinshaw banned Rati from meeting Jinnah, Jinnah knocked on the door of the court. The court barred Rattan from visiting her until she became an adult, but ruled that Ratti would be free to decide her own life after adulthood. Jinnah also waited patiently for about a year, during which Jinnah's friend and secretary Kanji Dwarka Das acted as a bridge between Jinnah and Rati. During this period, Rati studied Islam deeply and decided to become a Muslim and marry Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
On February 20, 1918, preparations were underway to celebrate Ratan's eighteenth birthday with great fanfare in the Petit family, on the same day Rati quietly left her house and went to Jinnah's house. Dunshaw was aware of his daughter's stubborn nature, but he did not expect her to take such a big step. On his daughter's rebellion, Brahm Dunshaw published the news of his only daughter's death in the local newspapers. After that, Dinshaw kept no relationship until Rati's death.
On April 18, 1918, Rati accepted Islam at the hands of Maulana Nazir Ahmad, Imam of Jama Masjid, Bombay. She was given the Islamic name Maryam, the next day on April 19, 1918, she was married to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Their marriage was performed by Maulana Hasan Najafi. Only close friends were invited to this small wedding ceremony in Bombay. Rati, who had now become Maryam Jinnah, received the wedding ring from Quaid-e-Azam, which was gifted to him by Raja Sahib Mahmoodabad. On April 19, 1918, the newspaper "Statesman" published the news of Rati's acceptance of Islam and her marriage to Jinnah.
After marriage, when Maryam Jinnah started her domestic life, she decorated her house with great taste and elegance with her intelligence and ability. After renovating the house, Maryam Jinnah started paying attention to her husband's office and gave it a beautiful color according to high taste. Their love was an ideal love.
Rati Jinnah was an example of sophistication and understanding. You were interested in drama, literature and poetry. Your books used to be a treasure. Quaid-e-Azam kept your books even after your departure. Rati Jinnah was very interested in subjects like literature, poetry, literature, spirituality and magic. Rati had collected the books of the same subjects. Both Rati Jinnah and Muhammad Ali Jinnah were very fond of Shakespeare. Rati Jinnah was also expert in horse riding. You looked like a handsome fairy.
You had a strong hatred for the British. Even once a journalist asked you that if Quaid-e-Azam was knighted and given the title of Sir as a result of his meritorious services, would you like to be Lady Jinnah's wife? Rati Jinnah hated the British so much that she became furious and said that if my husband accepts knighthood, I will leave him. He had no attachment to the British. She was young but very educated. Just as Muhammad Ali Jinnah used to speak, the British had to open a dictionary, similarly Rati Jinnah was a bookworm and did not accept the superiority of the British due to her breadth of knowledge. She was not at all impressed by the British.
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was not only a successful lawyer but also a prominent leader of the Congress and the All India Muslim League and spent most of his time in political and social engagements apart from advocacy. Gradually the engagements of Quaid-e-Azam began to increase. A girl with a very delicate temperament and a lover of poetry and literature, probably thought of him as Jinnah's indifference. After ten years of marriage, Maryam decided to separate from Jinnah and she booked a suite in the Taj Mahal Hotel and moved there for permanent residence. Loneliness and worry became a pain in his body and soul. He developed intestinal inflammation and then TB. Rati's mother went to Paris with Maryam Jinnah to get her treated in Europe.
In 1928, Quaid-e-Azam got information about Maryam Jinnah's illness, so he left all his engagements and reached Paris and continued to take care of her. It was a sign of their love that Maryam Jinnah would eat the same food with his beloved wife. After some time, Maryam Jinnah recovered and came to Bombay. But unfortunately, in January 1929, he fell ill again.
Maryam Jinnah's last letter to Jinnah became a memorial and immortal:
"Dear! Thank you for whatever you have done (for me). It is possible that sometimes your unusual senses found my behavior provocative or unkind. You must believe that there is only intense love and extreme pain in my heart. Dear! A pain that doesn't hurt me. In fact, when a reality is as close to life (and which is death after all) as I have reached, then one remembers only the happy and kind moments (of one's life), the rest of the moments are hidden in the hidden, hidden fog of delusion. go Try to remember me as a flower that you plucked from a branch, not as one that is crushed under a shoe. "Dear! (Perhaps) I suffered more because I also broke up with love. (Therefore) my grief should be measured by the intensity of my love. "Dear! i love you I love you ... And if I loved you even a little less, I might have stayed with you...When someone creates a beautiful flower, he never throws it into the swamp. The higher a man raises the standard of his ideal, the more it falls. ''My Dear! I have loved you with such intensity that few men have received such love. My only request to you is that the knowledge that was born in (our) love should end with it. "Dear! Good night and God bless you."
And on February 20, 1929, Maryam Jinnah died on her 29th birthday. Jinnah was not near the country's most expensive lawyer and the fragile wife of the most important leader of the All India Muslim League and Congress when she died. They were informed. Quaid-e-Azam with great courage and courage hid his sorrow and buried him with his own hands. After the death of his wife, Quaid-e-Azam, while living in Bombay for 18 years, made it his practice to visit his wife's grave every Thursday according to certain traditions.
Quaid-e-Azam, the possessor of nerves of steel, was never seen crying in his life except at two places. And both are related to Maryam. For one thing, when Maryam was buried, as soon as she was lowered into the grave, she was asked to kneel down and put dirt on the grave, so she lost her temper and started crying in tears. When the others started coming to Pakistan in August 1947, for the last time he went to his wife's grave and sat for a long time and kept shedding tears.
Quaid-e-Azam did not marry after Maryam Jinnah, they were broken up, but at such a time, his sister Ms. Fatima Jinnah took care of her brother. If Mother Nation did not take care of his brother in this way, perhaps it would not be difficult if not impossible for Quaid-e-Azam to play such a big role in politics. Therefore, if it is said that the motherland was the benefactor of the Pakistani nation, that she supported her brother and she (Quaid-e-Azam) gave us Pakistan, then it will not be wrong.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah had a daughter Dina Jinnah from Rati. It was on the evening of August 14, 1919, when Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah went to the theater with his wife Ratanbai that during the play Ratanbai informed the Quaid that she was in labor and should be taken to the maternity home immediately. The Quaid did the same and on the same night on August 15, 1919, a beautiful baby girl was born in his house, who was named Dina Jinnah when she lost her mother's shadow when she was only nine and a half years old.
Ratan Bai wanted to enroll her daughter in the Theosophical School in Adyar (Madras). For this purpose, he had also obtained complete information, but due to the intervention of Quaid-e-Azam, this was not possible.
Dina Jinnah received her early education in a convent school in Bombay. Although Dina lived mostly with her maternal grandmother, Muhammad Ali Jinnah employed a governess named Stella to raise and look after Dina. She was a Catholic from Bombay. Due to Muhammad Ali Jinnah's professional and political engagements, he had very few opportunities to be with Dina. But despite this, Dina loved her parents very much and she tried to stay with her parents. Every year she used to go to Kashmir with her parents for summer holidays and twice she also went to London with her parents.
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah loved his only daughter very much. He entrusted his sister Fatima Jinnah with the responsibility of arranging for Dina's Islamic education. Arrangements were also made to teach Dina the Quran. Ms. Fatima Jinnah also began to engage in political activities, so Dina Jinnah became closer to her Parsi cousin. During this time, Dina got married to a Parsi young man, Naval Wadia, against Muhammad Ali Jinnah's will. Quaid-e-Azam was very sad and expressed his anger on his daughter. After that, he had separated from his daughter and despite all this, he had fixed two lakh rupees for her in his will.
Dina Wadia was born on 15 August 1919 and died on 2 November 2017. She was the daughter and only child of the founders of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Maryam Jinnah. Dina's mother belonged to two of Mumbai's elite families, the Petit Brunets and the Tata family.
In 1938, Dina married the famous industrialist Newly Wadia, who belonged to the prominent Wadia family, however, the marriage did not last long and got divorced in 1943. Dina Wadia died on 2 November 2017 in New York at the age of 98. .
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