No Kindess for Killing

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.