Since past few
years I have been getting news like save Muslims in Iraq, Egypt, and These days
in Burma. Well I think it's a human nature that powerful always rules and demolishes the weaker. There is nothing like show kindness before killing
anyone, or portraying anyone as the world's most brutal nation or religion.
Because power has no religion but nature which is built-in into human. As if
anyone is aware of the condition in Pakistan, so, this can be easily judged;
Shia are minorities so they get killed in Majority, in NWFP Pakhtoons are in
Majority so they enforce Kalashians to left their religion or the souls.
Similarly, when we go to Burma scene then a group of extremist who are in
majority want the minorities to leave their land.
Before writing
anything I just want to assure the reader that I am also a Muslim and I have no
differences with my religion at all but, we always hear that Muslims are
innocent and they always get crushed. Let's not get back so far and start from
Akbar and his few ancestors and descendants. As Akbar always portrayed as the greatest ruler in
the history of Muslim Leaders. I always get a question in my mind that why we
always get a bias and altered history in our academic books? Well, a difficult
question to even ask myself. But, I really don't want my family kids to get
grown with those so called pseudo secular historians written books who always concealed Akbar' s inhuman cruelty.
First let me tell
my readers something about the cruelty of Akbar to his own servant and family
members, this incident was narrated by Asad Beg:
“At
that time the Emperor used to retire for a long interval, after evening
prayers, during which time the servants and courtiers used to disperse,
assembling again when they expected His Majesty to re-appear. That evening he
(Akbar) happened to come out sooner than usual, to hear the news from the
Dakhin, and at first found none of the servants in the palace. When he came near
the throne and couch, he saw a luckless lamplighter, coiled up like a snake, in
a careless death-like sleep, close to the royal couch. Enraged at the sight, he
ordered him to be thrown from the tower, and he was dashed into a thousand
pieces.” (--Asad Beg, Wikaya)
Humayun, Akbar’s
father, blinded his elder brother Kamran so that he could never pose a threat
to the throne and Akbar assassinated Kamran’s son for the same reason. But, it
can be easily seen from this scenario that this blood-line had the cells of
brutality in it. As Akbar ancestors were none other then the most barbarous and
vicious killers from the history, named as Babar and Humayun. By getting the
above things one can easily get an idea that these deeds can only be expected
from those who never ever faced to any school of civilization. Yes, akbar was
bron and brought up in an illiterate and foul atmosphere characterized by
womanizing, drug addiction and excessive drinking. Few secular historians
always project Akbar as the greats of all Mughals.
Babar who was the
grandfather of Akbar, when invaded India in 1521, he ordered and took thousands
of persons in prison. the pitilessly lashing of women and children were the
common bravery act by such a brave ruler in impended history. Babar
was also a terrible iconoclast. Babar’s barbarism desecrated and demolished
thousands of Hindu temples and converted several thousands into mosques.
After
all these act we know Babar as the best of the rulers of his time who had eight
great qualities which are: prudence and foresight, great personal ambition,
skilled warrior, skilled and generous administrator, a man free from religious
discrimination and the quality to gain the hearts of the army. Beside that, he
was a great admirer of art, music and learning. He was also a poet and could
write good poetry in Persian language. Were these historians are talking about
the same Babar I read or Babar had split personality issues at that time.
Well
Babar was a poet sounds strange but that's true, he wrote poetry from his
beloved Babri who was a young boy and he was the subject of Babar's poetry:
In
a verse, Babar wrote –
“I
am abashed whenever I see my love,
My
companion looks at me while I look to the other way.
I
had neither strength to go nor power to stay,
To
such distraction you have reduced me
Oh,
my (male) sweetheart.”
Humayun,
Akbar’s father, had a similar legacy of cruelty, slaughtering Hindus in
thousands and taking Hindu women and children as captives. After repeated
battles, Humayum could ultimately capture his elder brother Kamran and
subjected the latter to brutal torture. He was pulled out of the tent and a
lancet was thrust into his eyes. Some lemon juice and salt was put into his
eyes.
One
can imagine the cruelty and torture that Humayun was capable of inflicting on
others when he subjected to his own brother to such atrocities He is also known
to have married a 14 year old Hamida Begum by force. The cruelties perpetrated
by of Akbar’s descendants (Jehangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, etc..) are not
entirely different from those of his ancestors. It is amazing that Akbar let
his contemporaries and Generals, like Peer Mohammad, loot and rape the helpless
citizenry that he was ruling!
At
last, Akbar ordered to dig two Sabats (a trench covered with leather is called
a Sabat) from far away places to the wall of the fort. Then explosives in large
quantities were dumped at the walls of the fort and severe blasts collapsed the
wall. Expecting imminent fall of the fort, nearly 300 Rajput women sacrificed
their lives in Jauhar (self immolation in fire). When the Mughal army entered
the fort, nearly 800 Rajput soldiers were alive and all of them were put to the
sword.
However,
according to the Islamic faith, killing so many kafirs and drenching the
Chittor Fort with kafirs’ blood, Akbar had undoubtedly done a great service to
Allah and Islam and to seek blessings for this great service.
Now
the tables has turned and the same conditions raised up against the Muslims where
some rulers are ruling over Muslim and they are powerful. So, the game of power
has began now it's time for us to face the music.
