Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Muhammad Ali Jinnah" in English language version.
son of a middle-class merchant of the Muslim Khoja community who had migrated to Sind from Gujarat
Iqbal wrote several letters to Jinnah in 1937 persuading him to take the lead in creating Pakistan... These correspondences would change the way Jinnah would look at the issue of a separate homeland for Muslims.
Jinnah's views were significantly influenced by the ideas of Muhammad Iqbal
Iqbal's correspondence with Jinnah also played an important role in formulating his course of action
Certainly these views influenced Mr Jinnah to declare urgently a solid solution to the Indian constitutional problem by projecting Muslims as a separate body
the biographer of Jinnah admits 'that these letters of Iqbal exercised influence on the mind of Mohamed Ali Jinnah.'
Iqbal was an influential force in convincing Jinnah to end his self-imposed exile in London.