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Meeting Dina Wadia on Madison Avenue

2/11/2017

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Dina Wadia died today at the impressive age of 98. She was the only child of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan - though there was a breach between the two when she did as her father did and married a non-Muslim. She strenuously avoided public attention. But after five years of striving, I managed to meet her in her apartment off Madison Avenue in New York in September 2002.

I was in the US to cover the first anniversary of 9/11, and Dina said I could come over. She lived in the sort of exclusive apartment building where you didn't get into the lobby, never mind beyond it, unless you were expected. She wouldn't allow me to record an interview - she insisted nothing should be on-the-record - she wouldn't permit herself to be photographed ... though she relented as I was leaving, and let me take a photo of a life size, full length portrait of her painted in London in 1943 when she was expecting her son, the businessman Nusli Wadia. (Alas, the photo didn't come out too well.)

With her death I am released from the bonds of confidentiality - and while there's nothing particularly surprising about what she said, I can at least set it down.

I was struck as soon as she opened the door by her appearance. She was spry and petite, wearing bright red lipstick - and with her high cheekbones and aquiline nose, and somewhat imperious expression, she looked strikingly like her father.

Indeed, I remember the shock of that first glance upon her - her father's daughter.

Dina Wadia was charming and friendly. She showed me a photo of her beautiful mother, Rattanbai 'Ruttie' Petit, a Parsi, who died when her daughter was nine. She was brought up largely by her maternal grandmother.

​On her desk was a photo of her father. She spoke of her pride in Jinnah. Yes, they had quarelled over her marriage to Neville Wadia - who was born a Parsi but converted to Christianity - but they made it up, and often spoke and wrote to each other.  She says her father rang her from Delhi to say "We've got it!" when he won the Muslim League's demand for Pakistan. Her own temperament and personality, she reckoned, came more from her father than her mother.


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Dina never made her home in Pakistan. She told me that Bombay was her city - though she has spent long periods in London as well as New York. She went to Pakistan for her father's funeral in 1948, and twice more to visit her Aunt Fatima, Jinnah's sister, but when we met she hadn't set foot in Pakistan since Fatima's death in 1967.

​She said she had been invited many times, by Benazir Bhutto and others, but had persistently refused - she didn't want to be used as a mascot. She complained of leaders who had 'robbed' the country and warned that democracy hadn't flourished in any Muslim country.

(Two years after we met, she did return to Karachi and visited her father's mausoleum as well as taking part in a touch of cricket diplomacy.)

Dina ran through a checklist of independence era leaders - she had warm memories of Gandhi, who her father liked; she said that Sardar Patel was 'straight'; but she regarded Nehru as easily flattered and not her father's equal; while Mountbatten, she said, was simply 'untrustworthy'.

As for Jinnah's reputation, and the manner in which he is commemorated across Pakistan, she told me she didn't like the way her father was 'worshipped'. 

And with that I was ushered out - but the memory of the encounter has remained with me, I made notes as soon as I got back to my New York hotel room and I have them in front of me as I write.

​I am sad to hear of her death. There was something remarkable about her - and with her passing, just about the last remaining link with South Asia's independence era leaders has been broken.
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Dina Wadia, on the far left, at her father's funeral in 1948. Fatima Jinnah is the older woman with a black shawl.
41 Comments
Asad
3/11/2017 23:26:42

Jinnah’s wife was converted muslim from Parsi before marriage with Jinnah. Their marriage was done like muslims. Even her (Jinnah’s wife Rettibai) funerals was completely done according Islamic norms and traditions. There’s notable evidence and proof present on it. I couldn’t understand why you people distort the history with your own opinion.

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AK
4/11/2017 01:51:55

It's not distorting the history, Asad. It's telling what "actually" happened.

Here:

1. Jinnah wanted to marry his friend's underage daughter (he already had a relationship with the underage girl) - but that's a different matter. I think underage girls are a thing in Islam right since the "beginning", anyway, let's not digress. Oh yeah, she was his friend's daughter.

2. So finally when she turned 18 (Jinnah was 42 at that time), they decided to marry.

3. She convereted to Islam and married Jinnah (Wikipedia reference: "In 1918, only weeks after her 18th birthday, Ruttie converted to Islam, took the name Maryam Jinnah (though she never used it), married the 42-year-old Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and cut all the ties with her family"

So what does point 3 tell here: She "wasn't a muslim" who married Jinnah, she "was converted" or just say she "converted" to Islam to marry Jinnah. That's the point here.

It's also not like she had a dream or change of faith or change in whatever religious inclination she had and became a practising muslim and then met Jinnah and married Jinnah.

She was a well educated, albeit a very young woman, and even at that time like any well educated person she didn't care about religion at all or much. Also, just like Jinnah. Oh, did you know he was openly an atheist and didn't give two hoots about Islam or any religion other than for politics?

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Dr D M Joshi
4/11/2017 11:01:24

Jinnah had no trouble using Islam to go down in History as preventer of humanizing Islam as that was what India doing even before British managed to overlord it. So Jinnah did give hoot to Islam to be called father of a country that has ended up everyone can see where

Umar Janjua
4/11/2017 08:15:01

Agree its truth, Rutanbai married and died as Muslim, and Baba was angry with dina on Shadi with Parsi, but these secular or atheists people try to twist history as it suits for their agenda

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Dr D M Joshi
4/11/2017 10:49:06

dina with lower case but Shadi and Baba with upper case; Was Baba that angry?
Of course Baba couldn't be secular or atheist having asked Muslims to kill Hindus all over India in 1946

PD
3/3/2024 13:20:45

It is interesting to note that Dina didn’t want to move to Pakistan because she considered Bombay as her city. However, she had no issue in moving to New York City and live there for a long time.

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Dayashankar Joshi link
4/11/2017 10:42:44

Did Dina Wadia say why "democracy hadn't flourished in any Muslim country" ?

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Ghulam Suhrawardi
4/11/2017 11:40:25

People: Please pay respect to a person who was indeed a great man. Let's not get into Muslim, Hindu and Parsi thing. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Dina and Fatima Jinnah were great people and good people. The entire sub-continent is screwed up. Rise of Hindutva is killing any decency in the area. Most Muslims being poor and uneducated (or Madrassah educated) do not know any better. Lets educate and bring them up to par with educated Brahmins, the world will change. Brahmins and the upper caste took the best out of the Mughals as well as the British. So they still remain up there and muddy the water instead of clearing it. Hindutva was created by the upper caste and RSS. The sheer hate against Muslims and other religions in India originated from rising Hindu nationalists for over 150 years.

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Dr D M Joshi
4/11/2017 12:33:59

How did Brahmins and the upper caste (Muslim or Hindu?) managed to take the best out of Muslim Mughals than Maulavis, Syeds, Ashrafs?
How many were killed in Direct Action called by Jinnah and partition that followed.
Poor Muslim got used by well educated generals and their protected in Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed Hizbul Mujahideen
$$$ collected by Generals first gave 1970 and then ten years from 1979-1989 and of course post 9/11 profits in Afghanistan.
Hindutva RSS would not have been there if Sindhi Hindus were not looted and driven out, just as with left over American guns Pandits were dispossessed got driven out post 1989

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Ghulam Suhrawardi
4/11/2017 14:25:03

Mr. Joshi:

You are too arrogantly anti Muslim and anti Pakistan. It is people like you that is making India a divisive nation. This is exactly what divided India. The British and the Brahmins played their games for last 200 years. I will stop responding to you as talking to a wall does not help nor can one run a discussion.

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Zara
5/11/2017 17:54:08

I agree with you sir, this Gentleman seems very angry and is twisting the facts.

Kabir
18/3/2018 03:35:39

It’s so interesting to see everyone getting abused - Hindus, Hindutva, Nehru for disagreeing with Jinnah, Brahmins, British...everyone except this lawyer who brought about an Islamic state that today is a cancer on the rest of the world. The quicker this erroneous state is brought to an end the better off the lot of Indian Muslims.

Dr D M Joshi
4/11/2017 15:03:51

Abusing me, Brahmins or even British ( who did not put Jinnah in jail for calling Muslims to kill Hindus in 1946) is not going to bring Democracy to Muslims.
Greedy for $$$ generals sold off Democracy starting 1953 and then in 1970 by putting Mujibur Rehman in jail. I believe you are proud of what Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi did to East Pakistani women to improve pedigree Racial Stock of Muslims there,.
How was Brahmin responsible what Pakistanis allowed their generals to screw the country?

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Nia
4/11/2017 17:31:25

Poor Indians cannot get over partition and move on.
Coming from a family where on maternal side half of the family remained in India and half migrated I can tell by the difference in standard of living of the two sides that it was blessing to have a separate homeland. Long live Pakistan!

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Dr D M Joshi
4/11/2017 18:08:17

Good to know that you have a better living standard in Pakistan; I suppose compared with the part of family that did not move with those of you who did.
As to "Long Live Pakistan" what do you say about it splitting 25 years. And I am sure the living standard of 10 who got hired to kill 200 or so in Mumbai, could not have been as good as you and yours there.
How about living standard of those who made up Taliban through Madrasa like Lal Masjid?
Are these Madrasas imparting sufficient training that China can hire them in Road Building?

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Nia
4/11/2017 23:43:01

Mr.Joshi,
You need to get a life.Learn a lesson from us Pakistanis , we have no ill feelings about creation of Bangladesh and have moved on as we respect the will of the people. You need to learn the same lesson in Kashmir as torturing people into submission does not work.As to the rest of your remarks, they are so full of falsehoods that they don’t even merit a response.Shalom

Zara
5/11/2017 17:56:35

How about the Hindu fundos we are on tv all the time making a fool of themselves ?

Dr D M Joshi
5/11/2017 05:28:29

What Yahya Bhutto did to Mujibur and Niazi Soldiers did to Pakistani citizens is East is well documented.
Recently Mohammad Ilyas Khan a Pakistani Journalist wrote "non-Muslim women enslaved" by barbarians armed and transported to Kashmir in 1947. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41662588
And Mohammad Sultan Thaker a Kashmiri elder who witnessed what barbarians did said they were LOOTERS http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-india-41799628/the-man-who-witnessed-the-tribal-invasion-of-kashmir
After US with help of Pakistan destroyed Afghanistan in 1979-1989 $$$ stopped flowing but weapons were left a plenty, with which Pakistan both Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif armed killers who first started by abducting and killing tourists from Europe and further West.
Kargil was allowed and Musharraf having got 4000 killed (as per Nawaz Sharif) became dictator. BB Sharif and Mushi all could no live in Pakistan for long times.
Hope Pakistan has peace within and prospers but so many monstors have been created by ISI, only hope now is China making Generals behave.

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Nia
5/11/2017 07:11:47

I sincerely wished that you could get a life and move on. Something in me almost feels sorry for you as you are passing your weekend trolling people on a somber occasion of death.
Our elders had proverbs like " a kettle calling a pot black " for people just like you. You are cherry picking information from 45 years back and most of it is completely false yet you have nothing to say about this:
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/lead-article-politics-of-rape-in-kashmir/article6909603.ece
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/18/india-blinding-kashmiri-protesters-justice-steel-pellets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/26/arundhati-roy-kashmir-india
http://sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/69983-bbc-the-rapes-india-forgot-mentiona-all-apart-from-sikhs/
Be constructive and bring a change by sweeping your own backyard

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Dr D M Joshi
5/11/2017 07:23:36

Why not list what Jinnah, Ayub, Yahya, Bhuttos, Sharifs, Mushy, ISI did for its people and Muslims besides propping up looters, rapists, mercenaries for petro-$$$, terrorists & now cheap labour for China?

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ashis banerjee
5/11/2017 09:17:59

I dunno why Pakis are always in the mystic process of illusion that Jinnah was a 'pure' Muslim, else how he can be termed as 'Pa' of their Nation!
On the contrary, he (Jinnah) was never in a Mosque, never ever wore alkhalla etc excepting taking over time from Mountbatten on 14/08/1947, enjoyed pork and beef alike - one of the most vociferous proponent of secularism - had been driven into the hands of fundamentalist forces, is a sheer disgrace!
It is another matter that such a brilliant mind had left Congress and joined Muslim League due to myopic view of the then leaders of Congress and another 'Pa' of another Nation!

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Dr D M Joshi
5/11/2017 15:30:49

Jinnah became Baba by causing millions to die violent death many of whom Muslims.
Why Brits wouldn't touch him when they put Gandhi in prison so many times once walking 241 miles to Dandi from Ahmedabad.
His daughter seem to have said that his father liked Gandhi, but in his desire to be called Father of the Nation he was competing with his friend.

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Dr D M Joshi
5/11/2017 19:59:38

What do "Baba" kids tell his daughter on

"She said she had been invited many times, by Benazir Bhutto and others, but had persistently refused - she didn't want to be used as a mascot. She complained of leaders who had 'robbed' the country and warned that democracy hadn't flourished in any Muslim country.
"

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Yousaf Salli
6/11/2017 03:56:08

Dr Joshi aren't you the same and probably the only country which voted into power the killers of the father of your nation mahatma Gandhi. obviously if u don't have respect for your founding fathers how can you have respect for others

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Dr D M Joshi
6/11/2017 05:37:16

Brits left not so much of Gandhi, they left because their country was in ruin fighting Hitler.
As to Gandhi he didn't give a call to Hindus to start killing Muslims, rather was prepared to die to save Muslim lives.
A yes some Hindus did get tired of Gandhi speaking for Pakistan that sent looters and rapists to grab Kashmir for itself, people of the same stock that now causing havoc in Pak Lands

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Maqsood Ahmed
6/11/2017 11:35:49

Quarrelling and using bad words against has become the mantra of most of the people on the Internet. Everyone knows including his strongest opponents during his life time, Innah was aman of principles and dignity. You can never prove any scandal against him.

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Dr D M Joshi
6/11/2017 11:53:06

Do causing millions die violent death count for "principles and dignity" ?

Jinnah legacy to Sunni Muslims joined with $$$ has continued to kill, mostly each other.

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Nia
6/11/2017 11:40:39

OMG! Mr. Joshi you are still commenting on the blog after 3-4 days. Did you forget to take your meds?. If not, please go and see your psychiatrist may be he needs to up your meds.

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Kabir
18/3/2018 03:45:28

Nia wow is that how you shut up debate in the cancerous Islamic state of Pakistan...or do critics end up in “enforced disappearance”

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Dr D M Joshi
18/3/2018 06:26:43

As to " quicker this erroneous state is brought to an end the better off the lot of Indian Muslims" may be they should thank Donald J Trump giving first real kick to Saudi clients. Both US and KSA have got entangled with their inner turmoil with no time to bail out ISI and Paki landlords.

Gurudev N
30/3/2018 16:32:18

Jinnah’s personal life is controversial and is at odds with his political career where he formulated the two nation theory and creation of Pakistan . Jinnah’s marriage to Ruttie implied that he was secular minded , then why would he , a man who married an non -Muslim woman and was friendly with non -Muslims want a Muslim State . He was foreign educated and not much of a practicing Muslim . He belonged to a well to family and was himself a successful lawyer , so why did he not marry any woman in his youth and instead choose to marry the young daughter of his friend when he was in his 40s’ is a mystery .

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Dr D M Joshi
30/3/2018 17:32:05

Case of Donald Trump is similar to Jinnah. Trump associated with Democrats but after seeing a Black becoming president and seeing how Republicans strived to make that Black one time president, Trump started his crusade,
It is unlikely that Trump will cause bloodbath among Americans but Jinnah managed to get millions of Indians, people of Indian subcontinent kill each other. Killing continues 72 years after his call of Direct Action.

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Ghulam Suhrawardi
31/3/2018 05:00:56

Joshi
You are vile. You are still harping on the same issue. Glad you expose yourself. Hiltlerian Modi is a bit more clever. He could terrorize entire Muslim population of Gujarat using his office as Chief Minister without getting caught. Slick hindutva will destroy India. Hindutva is not democratic or civilized.

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Dr D M Joshi
31/3/2018 08:44:46

Fortunately for Hindus there are some willing to die for secularism and have not run away from India,
Direction in which Jinnah pushed Islam has been more tragic than what Aurangzeb did.
Pakistan following Saudi advise took America its saviour in fifties and where has it ended?
It took Gandhi several decades and long jail terms to be called BAPU; partly it was faith in him and largely it was fear of Sunnis of what is left of Pakistan that many Muslims of what is left of India stayed put at Partition.
I know of Muslims migrating away during the period of what Modi allowed to happen around Ahmedabad, but they did not migrate to Pakistan, instead as far away as possible but in Gujarat.

Checked one Ghulam Suhrawardi @nandalalpur Wonder if he knows that what has happened to Muslim Rohingya is the direct result of Saudi money poured into turning the world ISIS black. How much of that is happening because Jinnah gave call to Muslims start killing Hindus in Calcutta in 1946?

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Habiba
10/10/2018 22:25:31

Dr D M Joshi,
I don't see whats your problem. Why can't you understand that Jinnah is a hero. It's clear that your anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistani.
Get Your FACTS STRAIGHT.

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Dr D M Joshi
13/10/2018 08:27:54

Jinnah fell in hands of Muslim fundamentalists & gave call to start killing Hindus in 1946. Soon his creation fell in hands of Military Dictators. Islam that under Akbar and Sufi Saints was getting humanised went into direction that ultimately landed itself in hands of ISIS.Until kicked by Trump Pakistan became slave of USA & Saudis.Will it ever let Shia, Ahmediya, Sufi, Ismaili Muslims live there with dignity?

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Baris
21/10/2018 08:15:24

Can we leave picking the bones of a tainted past alone? I guess the deep distrust between the neighbouring continues to fuel conflicts. The divide and rule policy was neither used by Moghul nor Hindu rulers. Colonialism bred distrust as can be seen in colonial and post colonial texts, the only way to divide the Ganga- Jamuni syncretism, was to bring religion in. In this modern day and time shouldn’t we be letting go of the past unless we wish to politically contrive a similar genocide.

I guess there’s a lot of shared history that gets blurred when we use a political lens to view. I believe, the spirit of the Indian subcontinent is encapsulated in “Vasudeva Kutumbaka “ let’s not use the “ other “ lens to view each other.

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Dr D M Joshi
1/11/2018 09:43:42

If what happened to Salman Taseer does not happen to Imran Khan may be Pakistnis who dealt with and deal with East Pakistanis and Shia will turn page, page that Jinnah opened for Mullas who are in Saudi pocket.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46040515

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28/11/2020 13:46:21

Thaanks for sharing

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SAMIR SARDANA
24/11/2023 17:03:45

THE PEOPLE OF PAKKISTAN SHOULD PRAY FOR JINNAH'S SOUL EVERY DAY - HE SAVED THEM FROM THE HELL HOLE OF INDIA !

LOOK AT CHAIWALA'S HINDOOOSTHAN !

YOU PEE AND YOGI GOBARNATH, HAS BANNED HALAL CERTIFICATION !

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/how-to/why-yogi-led-up-government-has-banned-halal-certified-food-products/articleshow/105348724.cms

SET ASIDE MEATS - IT IS VALID EVEN FOR NON MEATS !

WHAT YOGI GOBARNATH DOES NOT UNDERSTABD, IS THAT EVEN SUGAR, IS A CHEMICAL DERIVATIVE !

HUMANS CONSUME IN 2 WAYS - BY INGESTION,AND BY EXTERIOR APPLICATION (LIKE CREAMS/ LOTIONS/ SOAPS/LIPSTICKS)

AS FAR AS INGESTION GOES, GOBARNATH HAS TO LEARN BASICS

REFINING IMPURITES, CHANGING POTENCY & CONCENTRATION, INCREASING SHELF LIFE, PRESERVATIVES, BONDING QUALITIES,THE FEEL (STICKY/LINGERING TASTE ETC) - ALL REQUIRE CHEMICALS !

TASTE,ECSTASY,GRATIFICATON = BIO CHEMISTRY,& SO THE LINK TO CHEMICALS IN FOOD !

ECONOMICS & SCIENCE HAVE INTERSECTED TO PROVE THAT,THE CHEAPEST NGREDIENT,IN FOOD AND COSMETICS CHEMICAL FEED STOCK.IS PIG FAT & COW FAT !

Y ?

COW & PIG STOMACH IS AN AEROBIC DIGESTER & A MANUFACTURING PLANT,FREE OF COST,AS THE MEAT AND BONES & MILK,HAS A SALE VALUE !

BUT PORK IS HARAM & SO,HALAL CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED ! SINCE THESE ITEMS WILL USE SYNTHETIC CHEMICALS,& NOT PIG FAT OR ORGAN BASED OFFSHOOTS - SO THEY WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE !

THUS SUGAR WILL BE HALAL.& SO WILL CREAMS ETC !

SAME APPLIES TO HOUSE BUILDING CHEMICALS AND PAINTS AND FURNISHINGS AND SHOES AND CLOTHES !

THERE IS NO CHEMICAL PHARMA PRODUCT,WHICH HAS NO ANIMAL FAT OR PART OR SERUM IN IT ! WHICH IS Y FROM 700 AD TO 1900'S,MUSLIMS USED UNANI MEDICINE !

AND INDIA - YOU CAN ADD A LAYER OF NEW HALAL - THAT IS THE WORKING CAPITAL AND PROJECT FINANCE IS FROM ZAKAT AND AT NIL INTEREST RATE !

THIS HALAL CERTIFCATION IS THE START OF THE ISLAMIC SUPPLY CHAIN,WHICH IS SELF FINANCING !

MUSLIMS WILL CONSUME HALAL GOODS,AND THEIR SAVINGS WILL GO TO A BANK, WHICH WILL INVEST IN HALAL MANUFACTURE AND SALES ! IT WILL BE A CLOSED LOOP ! ONLY NEED IS POWER FROM GRID ! STARTING POWER PLANTS IS EASY - IF THERE IS A BANKABLE PPA ! IF POWER IS SOLD TO HALAL MANUFACTURING, ALL BILLS WILL BE PAID - WHICH MEANS THAT ANY IPP WILL BE VIABLE !

OIC IWLL INVEST IN THIS ISLAMIC SUPPLY CHAIN AND ISLAMIC BANKING - AS THE MARKET IS 250 MILION PEOPLE !

SO THIS IS A GENIUS IDEA ! IT IS THE START OF THE DESTRUCTION OF INDIA - AS THAT MUCH GST WILL EVAPORATE FROM CHAIWALA ! THE PROFITS OF THE ISLAMIC SUPPLY CHAIN WILL FUND SCHOOLS,HOSPITALS,COLLEGES AND INFRA ! NO TAX AND ONLY ZAKAT BASED ON EMAAN !

THIS WILL ALSO GIVE MUSLINS CONFIDENCE IN THEIR MANAGEMENT AND ADMIN CAPABILITES ! THAT WILL START THE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW MUSLIM NATION -AND THAT IS WHAT CHAIWALA DOES NOT WANT.INDIAH MUSLIMS HAVE NO CONFIDENCE THAT THEY CAN RUN A NATION - AS THEY HAVE NO SKILLS OR EDUCATION OR EXPERIENCE - WHICH WAS THE PLAN OF THE HINDOO BANIA - BRAHMIN !

TO MAKE SURE THAT INDIAN MUSLIMS DON;T HIT THE STREETS - RAW AND IB,DESTABILISE PAKISTAN - TO SHOW INDIAN MUSLIMS,THAT AN ISLAMIC NATION,CARVED OUT OF INDIA (AGAIN),IS NOT VIABLE.

PAKISTAN IS FAR AHEAD OF INDIAN MUSLIMS AND MINORITIES AND HINDOO MIDDLE CLASS.TO BELIEVE
THE LIES OF PANWARI BANIA SCUM,LIKE ZEE/ABP/AAJTAK, ON PAKISTAN,WILL BE UNFORGIVEABLE !

THAT IS Y GOBARNATH HAS BANNED THE HALAL TRADE MARK ! Y DID HE NOT BAN IT FOR MEAT EXPORTS ? AS ALL BEEF MEAT EXPORTERS,ARE HINDOOS AND JAINS !

CAN UNILEVER MAKE HALAL AND NON HALAL PRODUCTS ? NO ! SINCE THE RAW MATERIALS ARE DIFFERENT,THE OPTIIMISED WORK PRACRICES AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY,WILL BE DIFFERENT. ONE FACTORY CANNOT RUN 2 TECHNOLOGIES - IT MAY NOT BE VIABLE ! IN ANY CASE,A HINDOOO BANIA IS CERTAIN TO USE PORK FAT,IF HALAL PROFITS DIVE !

SO THE HALAL SUPPLY CHAIN HAS TO AE SEPARATE SBU AND BETTER STILL RUN BY MUSLIMS (IN ALL KEY OPERATIONS).AIM OF CHAIWALA IS TO KILL MUSLIMS ENTERPRISE ! CHAIWALA WANTS MUSLIMS,TO SELL KEEMA AND SHERWANIS !

THOSE WHO DRINK GAU MUTRAM,WILL NOT GET IT !

Y LIVE WITH THEM ? MAKE A SEPARATE NATION !

WHEN WILL INDIAN MUSLIMS AWAKEN ? IS TTHERE ANY HOPE FOR THESE FOOLS ? dindooohindoo


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Let’s spread the religion of love
We are created to love and care for each other
Let’s love every living soul on this earth
Let’s love each other
We are all same ,created by one and only great power .
I love every living being

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