Real Legacy

THE ART OF MANIPULATION offers you a powerful framework to master powerful and practical ways to influence and control people's behavior, negotiate better, make your pitch and manipulate others to get what you want. People who manipulate others attack their mental and emotional sides to get what they want. The person manipulating — called the manipulator — seeks to create an imbalance of power, and take advantage of a victim to get power, control, benefits, and/or privileges at the expense of the victim. Manipulation is when a person uses controlling and harmful behaviors to avoid responsibility, conceal their true intentions, or cause doubt and confusion. Manipulation tactics, such as gaslighting, lying, blaming, criticizing, and shaming, can be incredibly damaging to a person's psychological well-being.

In just over seven years, from 1940 to 1947, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah transformed Asia. He woke sleeping giants, the Muslims of South Asia, and gave them a free homeland they had never dreamed of. He ended their slavery, which had consumed their vitality, dignity and wealth for nearly two centuries since their treacherous defeat at Plassey in 1757. He gave them back their pride as a ruling power of the vast sub-continent for over 1000 years. In the words of historian Stanley Wolpert: “Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly any one can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.” These are the most astounding historical developments any one of anxious readers is likely to experience and ask: What was the kind of man who could do what he has done. This book is an attempt to answer that question by looking at that remarkable man through a window of his personal habits, traits and attitudes. This window has been opened by a person no less than Quaid-e-Azam’s own trusted Aide-de-Camp Mian Ata Rabbani. Inside the window we see an extraordinarily elegant, graceful, tastefully dressed, tall, handsome, erect and witty man with a monocle on grey silk cord and a stiff white collar which the famous British journalist Beverly Nicholas saw him wearing even in the hottest weather of Bombay in 1944. These are manifestations of his outside elegance. What was his inside like? The more you read about the day-to-day characteristics, attributes and temperament of the charismatic personality inside the window, the more closeness you find between his outside elegance and inside flawless approach to life. Confident, indomitable, steadfast, resolute, impeccable, unpurchaseable, courageous, full of pride! You keep coming across many other superlatives; a man of cold logic, deft reasoning and topmost legal brain, superbly eloquent, invincible, unconquerable. These statements are not false ornaments of flattery. They have come directly from the heart of the author and his well-researched knowledge. What to talk of the author? Even contemporaries of Quaid-e-Azam were full of amazement at the strength of his character and did not hesitate to shower lavish praises over his achievements. The celebrated British diplomat Lord Listowel rated Mr. Jinnah as a bigger political giant of the twentieth century than even General de Gaulle. American President Harry S. Truman considered him as the recipient of a devotion of loyalty seldom accorded to any man. His highness Sir Agha Khan III said of him: “Of all the statesmen that I have known in my life—Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Churchill, Curzon, Mussolini, Mahatama Gandhi—Jinnah is most remarkable. None of these men in my view outshown him in strength of character and that almost scanny combination of precision and resolution.” Even Quaid-e-Azam’s bitter critics considered him as outweighing Truman, Stalin, and Attle put together (Daily Amrit Bazar Patrika of 8th August 1947) and as hard as diamond with all the diamond’s brilliance (Daily Statesman). Peeping through the pages of this book the reader will see Mian Ata Rabbani in a constant state of love and mesmerism while serving Quaid-e-Azam as his Aide-de-Camp. He found his job as the toughest, hardest and at times most grinding but loved every moment of it for it turned out to be most rewarding, engaging, exciting and enjoyable. And why it should not have been so because he was spending the most precious moments of his life with aman whom Beverly Nicholas called as the most important man in Asia who could sway the battle of politics in Asia this way or that as he chose, for his 100 million Muslims would move to the left, to the right, to the front, to the rear at his bidding, and nobody else’s.

Good Behaviour will give you fame.