![]() In 1887, Jinnahbhai's only sister Man Bai came to visit from Bombay. Business was good and profits were soaring high.1 He handled all sorts of goods: cotton, wool, hides, oil-seeds, and grain for export and Manchester manufactured piece of goods, metals, refined sugar imports into the busy port. By the early 1880s' Jinnahbhai Poonja's trade business had prospered greatly. His father was especially keen towards his studying arithmetic as it was vital in his business. Officially named Mahomedali Jinnahbhai, his father enrolled him in school when he was six-the Sindh Madrasatul-Islam Jinnah was indifferent to his studies and loathed arithmetic, preferring to play outdoors with his friends. But Mithibai was unusually fond of her little boy, insisting he would grow up to be an achiever. The fragile infant who appeared so weak that it weighed a few pounds less than normal. On December 25, 1876, Mithibai gave birth to a son, the first of seven children. The Wazir Mansion has since been rebuilt and made into a national monument and museum owing to the fact that the founder of the nation, and one of the greatest leaders of all times was born within its walls. There, the young couple rented an apartment on the second floor of a three-storey house, Wazir Mansion. ![]() He married a girl Mithibai with the consent of his parents and moved to the growing port of Karachi. Jinnah's father Jinnahbhai Poonja (born 1850) was the youngest of three sons.
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