Whosoever said it should have been a seer.
“Great men have great flaws.”
A human can’t but have human flaws. These, by the will of Allah are inbuilt in his MAKE. Allah says: “Don’t take pride in your good deeds. These were possible because Allah Willed these. If Allah had not Willed, you wouldn’t have committed these.”
This Divine statement is a testimony to man’s limitations. Yet there have been great men in history. Pakistan had three in its eight decades since March 23, 1940. Way above the remaining two was Mohammad Ali Jinnah-the great leader who created Pakistan. His flaws if any are not known to us. Being a human he should have had them. But he in all probabilities had iron curtain of strong discipline to hide his flaws from public view. In the other words, he had exercised control over them.
The other great man— Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was in the end consumed by his flaws. His greatness was quite clearly marred by his great flaws— feudal vanity and overinflated selfishness, conspicuous among them.
The third of these is Imran Khan. I am bypassing BB for the simple reason that she, by her own definition was a slogger— not born for greatness— but for great struggle. In a recorded interview to me, she said so. This interview took place on August 22, 1990 in Bilawal House Karachi.
Imran Khan is entitled to greatness because of his great dreams, his great commitment, and his great resolve. From Sydney to Islamabad, his journey is a saga of frequent failures followed by relentless struggles to turn the tide. In the end he holds the PEN that will write this country’s destiny for the next decade. His flaws are glaring as these are continuously revealed. But he has the ability to undo the consequences of his flaws. His adversaries (or enemies) will have to live with his dominating PRESENCE in the years to come. I, as a friend and a well-wisher, fiercely wish that the Mercurial KAPTAAN does not take GREATNESS for granted.
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