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Let's talk about the idolized Aurangzeb. What he did and why is he considered great?
We will be focusing on the destruction of temples and hindu genocide done by him to debunk claims deny that this.
By the order of Aurangzeb (1645 AD) according to Mirãt-i-Ahmadî, Temple of Chintaman situated close to Sarashpur (Gujarat) and built by Sitaldas jeweller was converted into a mosque named Quwwat-ul-lslam (might of Islam) (1645 AD.) A cow was slaughtered to 'solemnize' the 'ceremony'.
Slaughtering a cow was a heinous choice, cow being one of the holiest animal in Hinduism. As well as, Hinduism prohibits animal slaughter, to do it right where their place of worship used to be where now stands a Mosque was simply to mock and destroy the souls of the indigenous population. The Pandits and Cows were always their main targets.
This was done before he even became the king, he was just a prince at this point.
When he became the king he sent Mir Jumla on an expedition to Cooch Bihar. Mir Jumla demolished ALL temples in that city and erected mosques in their stead. The general himself wielded a battle-axe to break the image of Narayana.
Mirãt-i-Ahmadî continues, In 1666 AD, he ordered the faujdar of Mathura to remove a stone railing which had been presented by Dara Shukoh to the temples of Keshav Rai. He explained: “In the Muslim faith it is a sin even to look at a temple and this Dara had restored a railing in a temple!”
You can still argue that Islamic Colonization simply had a political motif and not a religious one, if that would have been the case, none of the indigenous people would have been harmed, none of them would have been forcefully converted, their heritage would not have been destroyed right in front of their eyes, their schools and texts would have been burned. This is downright evil and was done in the name of Allah by all the Mughal tyrants.
“The richly jewelled idols taken from the infidel temples were transferred to Agra and placed beneath the steps leading to the Nawab Begum Sahib's (Jahanara's) mosque in order that they might be “pressed under foot by the true believers”. Mathura changed its name into Islamabad and was thus called in all official documents.”
In the same year, Sita Ram ji temple at Soron was destroyed as also the shrine of Devi Patan at Gonda. News came from Malwa also that the local governor had sent 400 troopers to destroy all temples around Ujjain.
According to Muraqat-i-Abul Hasan, civil officers, agents of jagirdars, karoris and amlas from Cuttack in Orissa to Medinipur in Bengal were instructed as follows:
“Every idol house built during the last 10 or 12 years' should be demolished without delay. Also, do not allow the crushed Hindus and despicable infidels to repair their old temples. Reports of the destruction of temples should be sent to the court under the seal of the qazis and attested by pious Shaikhs.”
(1672 AD) several thousand Satnamis were slaughtered near Narnaul in Mewat for which act of 'heroism' Radandaz Khan was tided Shuja'at Khan with the mansab of 3000 and 2000 horse.
(1675 AD) Guru Tegh Bahadur was tortured to death for his resistance against the forcible conversion of the Hindus of Kashmir. The destruction of gurudwaras thereafter is a well-known story which our secularists have succeeded in suppressing because the Akali brand Sikhs have been forging ties of friendship with Islam as against their parent faith, Hindu Dharma.
Mirãt-i-Ahmadî goes ahead: “On 6th January 1680 A.D. Prince Mohammad Azam and Khan Jahan Bahadur obtained permission to visit Udaipur. Ruhullah Khan and Yakkattaz Khan also proceeded thither to effect the destruction of the temples of the idolators. These edifices situated in the vicinity of the Rana's palace were among the wonders of the age, and had been erected by the infidels to the ruin of their souls and the loss of their wealth”. Pioneers destroyed the images. On 24th January the king visited the tank of Udayasagar.
His Majesty ordered all three of the Hindu temples to be levelled with the ground. On 29th January Hasan AN Khan made his appearance' and stated that “172 temples in the neighbouring districts had been destroyed.” His Majesty proceeded to Chitor on 22nd February.
Temples to the number of 63 were destroyed. Abu Tarab who had been commissioned to effect the destruction of idol temples of Amber, reported in person on 10th August that 66 temples had been levelled to the ground.’ The temple of Someshwar in western Mewar was also destroyed at a later date in the same year. It may be mentioned that unlike Jodhpur and Udaipur, Amber was the capital of a state loyal to the Mughal emperor.
Khafi Khan records in his Muntakhab-ul-Lubab: ‘On the capture of Golconda, the Emperor appointed Abdur Rahim Khan as censor of the city of Haiderabad with orders to put down infidel practices and innovations, and destroy the temples and build mosques on the sites.’ That was in 1687 AD. In 1690 AD, he ordered destruction of temples at Ellora, Trimbakeshwar, Narasinghpur, and Pandharpur.
Aurangzeb also destroyed, Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Kashi, Uttar Pradesh - which considered as the most scared hindu temple and land.
In 1698 AD, the story was repeated at Bijapur. According to Mirat-i-AhmadT: 'Hamidud-din Khan Bahadur who had been deputed to destroy the temples of Bijapur and build mosques there, returned to court after carrying out the order and was praised by the Emperor.' As late as 1705 AD, two years before he died, 'the emperor, summoning Muhammad Khalil and Khidmat Rai, the darogha of hatchet-men' ordered them to demolish the temple of Pandharpur, and to take the butchers of the camp there and slaughter cows in the temple.' Cow-slaughter at a temple site was a safeguard against Hindus rebuilding it on the same spot.
The saddest part is, all of this information, the bloodiest part of Indian History is never shown to the people, they grow up learning, Mughals were great emperors that built great things. When none of that holds any ounce of truth. It should be said without any censorship, these tyrants destroyed the culture, tradition and religions of India.
With all this information, if you're still defending these tyrants, if you still "want them around", if you still insist "it wasn't that bad", you absolutely do not care about "human rights", every activism you take part in is just performative. And I do not respect you or your opinion on any social issue.
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The Tragic Love Story of Aurangzeb & Hirabai Zainabadi Mahal
Aurangzeb's portraits may depict an austere man reading the Quran, but there once lurked in him a passionate young man who had considered the "world well lost" for the love of his life.
This story is not an average Valentine’s Day tale. It is about a love affair of a different kind, of a prince known today only as strong-willed, calculating and devoid of a loving bone in his body. It is about Aurangzeb falling in love at first sight.
In 1636, Aurangzeb was a prince and the Governor of Deccan. En route to Aurangabad, he stopped at Burhanpur to pay his respects to his maternal aunt, who was married to Saif Khan, the Governor of Burhanpur. What followed varies in detail in different tellings. But all of them agree that the austere prince fell in love at first sight with one of the women in his uncle’s harem. Her name was Hirabai.
Ma’asir al-Umara, written by Nawab Shams ud Daula Shah Nawaz Khan and his son Abdul Hai Khan, in the 18th century provides a detailed description of the episode:
“One day the prince went with the ladies of his harem to the garden of Zainabad Burhanpur, named Ahu-khanah [Deer Park], and began to stroll with his chosen beloved ones. Zainabadi, whose musical skill ravished the senses, and who was unique in blandishments, having come in the train of Khan-i-Zaman’s wife (the prince’s maternal aunt), on seeing a fruit-laden mango tree, in mirth and amorous play advanced, leaped up and plucked a fruit, without paying due respect to the prince’s presence. This move of hers robbed the prince of his senses and self-control.”
Despite his extremely religious bent, Aurangzeb was a connoisseur of music and a proficient Veena player. Hirabai’s looks, combined with her musical accomplishments, proved irresistible for the prince. He is said to have been so infatuated with her that he gave in to her demand that he taste wine. But before he could, Hirabai revealed that she was just testing his love for her.
A religious prince ready to taste wine, that shows the extent of his feelings for her.
Akbar, in his bid to regulate the harem, had ordered that all concubines should be named after the place they belonged to. So once Hirabai entered Aurangzeb’s harem she was called Zainabadi.
Grieving in solitude
In Ahkam e Aurangzeb, written in 1640, Aurangzeb’s biographer Hamiduddin Khan Nimchah recounts the Burhanpur encounter differently. According to him, the meeting took place when the prince entered the harem unannounced. He fell into a swoon and, on being asked by his aunt, described the reason for the malady and asked for a remedy. He was given Hirabai in exchange for one of his concubines.
The ensuing passion and infatuation is described the same way in Nimchah’s account.
It is said in Ma’asir al-Umara that Aurangzeb’s love affair proceeded to such lengths as to reach Shah Jahan’s ears. Dara Shikoh, who had no love lost for his brother Aurangzeb, is said to have remarked to their father Shah Jahan, “See the piety and abstinence of this hypocritical knave! He has gone to the dogs for the sake of a wench of his aunt’s household.”
But as destiny would have it, Hirabai did not live for long. Her death affected the prince greatly. She is buried in Aurangabad.
Ma’asir al-Umara records that Aurangzeb was so upset by the death of his beloved that he left the palace to go on a hunt. When reproved by the poet Mir Askari (Aqil Khan) for risking his life in that agitated state, the prince replied:
“‘Lamentation in the house cannot relieve the heart,
In solitude alone you can cry to your heart’s content.”
Aqil Khan then recited this couplet of his own composition:
“How easy did love appear, but alas how hard it is!
How hard was separation, but what repose it gave to the beloved!”
The prince could not check his tears. He committed the verses to memory after vainly trying to learn the modest poet’s name.
Incomplete portraiture
Niccolao Manucci, the Italian traveller and writer (1639–1717), too describes this period in Aurangzeb’s life:
“Aurangzeb grew very fond of one of the dancing-women in his harem, and through the great love he bore to her he neglected for some time his prayers and his austerities, filling up his days with music and dances; and going even farther, he enlivened himself with wine, which he drank at the instance of the said dancing-girl. The dancer died, and Aurangzeb made a vow never to drink wine again nor to listen to music. In after-days he was accustomed to say that God had been very gracious to him by putting an end to that dancing-girl’s life, by reason of whom he had committed so many iniquities, and had run the risk of never reigning through being occupied in vicious practices.”
Source: https://scroll.in/article/706290/how-the-heartless-emperor-aurangzeb-fell-in-love-at-first-sight
Picture: Mughal paintings
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The Mughal Empire lasted for over three centuries and at its peak ruled over 150 million souls. Its power declined over time, and it ultimately fell to the British in 1857.
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Mughal Attitudes Toward Fratricide Amid Shifting Political Paradigms
The head of Dara Shikoh being presented to his brother, the now uncontested Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir.
From the point of view of the official Moghul historians, Kamran was an unmitigated traitor and villain, and he was a certainly far less attractive than his gentle older brother. But it is likely that in his own mind he was behaving within his rights. The tradition among the descendants of both Jenghiz Khan and Timur had been for sons to divide their inheritance and then, within certain agreed limits such as those which probably prevented Kamran from killing Akbar, to struggle to increase their share. On this basis Kamran, who had originally been given the province of Kabul, would have felt every justification in keeping his dispossessed brother out; and Humayun would have found it unthinkable, as he evidently did, to execute Kamran for treachery.
But Kamran was following an older nomadic tradition of the Mongols and Turks, whereas Humayun was being forced into the ways of strong centralized kingdoms, such as existed in India and Persia, where inheritance of the whole by one ruler was the established system. Without the accompanying principle of primogeniture this leads almost inevitably to fratricide in the struggle after each king's death: so, for example, Humayun's enemy, Sultan Bahadur of Gujarat, had systematically set about exterminating his brothers after winning the throne in 1526 and Sultan Mohammed of Turkey murdered no fewer than nineteen of his brothers on his accession in 1595, a simple fact of history which astounded Akbar when he heard it. In centralized kingdoms such ruthlessness was the norm.
It was Humayun's misfortune that he grew up in one system but needed to operate another, though it is doubtful whether he would by nature have been capable of the cold-blooded murder of his brothers. Fortunately for his family's future empire in India, his son and grandson inherited the throne with no brothers capable of making a strong rival claim. But after them the fraternal struggles for the Moghul empire were to prove as ruthless as any.
- Bamber Gascoigne (The Great Moghuls, pages 53-54). Bolded emphases added, and paragraph structure reformatted to avoid a wall of text.
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FinMin Aurangzeb confident of reserves reaching $10bn by June
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb speaks at 2024 Islamabad Business Summit on April 23, 2024. — X/@NutshellGroup
With the Shehbaz Sharif-led government striving to stabilise the country’s economy, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb Tuesday predicted positive economic developments including improved foreign exchange reserves in the ongoing fiscal year.
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Marathas Did Not Care About Hindus, Mughals Did Not Care About Muslims - History Is More Nuanced Than These Stupid Binaries
It took the British around 100 years to fully conquer India. And by India, I mean British India consisting of Myanmar, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and present-day India. And in this, they were helped and aided by all sorts of Indian kingdoms and people. Rajputs and Marathas were major forces that helped the British conquer the most difficult of kingdoms. For instance, Tipu Sultan who…
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হায়রে মোদের রাজা, চুষে খায় দূর্বল প্রজা!!!
সম্রাট আওরঙ্গজেব ৪৯ বছর ধরে ভারত শাসন করেছেন। তাঁর সাম্রাজ্যের আয়তন ছিল ৪০ লক্ষ বর্গ কিলোমিটার। বলতে গেলে, ভারতবর্ষের প্রায় সম্পূর্ণ এলাকা ছিল তার রাজ্যের অন্তর্ভূক্ত। প্রজার সংখ্যা ছিল ১৫ কোটি ৮০ লক্ষ।
আওরঙ্গজেব বছরে রাজস্ব আদায় করতেন ৪৫০ মিলিয়ন ইউ এস ডলার।
ঐ সময়ে ফ্রান্সের সম্রাট ছিলেন চতুর্দশ লুই। লুই এর চেয়ে আওরঙ্গজেব এর রাজ্যে দশগুণ বেশি রাজস্ব আদায় হত।
তাঁর অধীনে ভারতবর্ষের অর্থনীতি ছিল পৃথিবীর সবচেয়ে বড় অর্থনীতি।
১৭০০ সালে তিনি ভারতবর্ষের অর্থনীতিকে ৯০ বিলিয়ন মার্কিন ডলারে উন্নীত করেন। ভারতবর্ষের জিডিপি ছিল পুরো পৃথিবীর জিডিপির চার ভাগের এক ভাগ।
১৭০৭ সালে বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে ধনী রাষ্ট্রের রাষ্ট্রপ্রধান আওরঙ্গজেব ৮৮ বছর বয়সে নিজের সম্পত্তির একটা উইল তৈরী করলেন।
মৃত্যুর পরে উইলে দেখা গেল- তাঁর কাছে ১৪ রুপি আর নিজ হাতে বোনা কিছু টুপি আছে।
এগুলো বিক্রি করে তাঁর জানাযা আর দাফনে খরচ করতে বলেছেন। আর সারাজীবন কুরআন শরীফ নকল করে ৩০০ রূপি জমিয়েছেন।
এই টাকাগুলো গরীবদের মাঝে দান করে দিতে বলেছেন।
দরবার আর রাজকোষে খোঁজ নিয়ে দেখা গেল- উইলের বাইরে সম্রাটের কোথাও কোনো সম্পদ নেই।
সংগৃহীত।
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On this day (March 3, 1707 CE {27/28 Dhul Qa'dah, 1118 AH}), the Great Mughal Sultan Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad better known as Aurangzeb Alamgir, at the age of 88 years old, died of natural causes at his imperial war tent.
"Gradually unconsciousness crept on, his breathing became harder and harder, but such was the mastery of that indomitable spirit over his rosary and his lips to gasp out the remembrance of God, till about eight O clock when all was over. He had ever wishes to die on the blessed day of Friday, and the prayer had been granted by the gracious deity to one of his truest servants."
Photo Credit: Timurid-Mughal Archives
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https://ambiladharma.com/2024/02/chhatrapati-shivaji-maharaj-information-rise-of-marathas.html
The fear of Shivaji was such that that Aurangzeb never dare to confront Shivaji for war in person. The English factors write " Shivaji is so famously infamous for his notorious loot that report Hath made him an airy body and added Wings or else it were impossible he could be at so many places as he is said to be at, all at one time. "
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Meenakshi Jain on Ahilya Bai Holkar
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Who were the officers of Mughals?
Who were the officers of Mughals?
Mughals and Daudnagar
Recently I had a chance travel through a small town of Daudnagar in Bihar, about 100 kms from Patna. I was not planning to visit that place but found out that it had a fort built between 1664 to 1673 by Daud Khan and his grandson Ahmed Khan and we went inside the town to see this place. Now like other places in Bihar even this place is in a dilapidated condition that you…
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This Mughal book is really good, but Gascoigne keeps referring to the orthodox Muslims that were part of the Mughal court as "bigots," and I can already tell he's going to character assassinate my boy Aurangzeb
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History of Bharat needs to be rewritten
If our ancestors keep losing the war,So how have we been alive 1200 years?
Nowadays people have become a thinking thatRajputs fought,But they were a lost warrior,Who ever lost to Alauddin,Sometimes lost to Babar, sometimes to Akbar,Ever from Aurangzeb…
Is it really like this?
Even in society many of theseHe is a confused Rajput,Joe Maharana Pratap, Prithviraj ChauhanAs timeless warriors are…
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Man booked for using Aurangzeb's image as WhatsApp profile picture in Navi Mumbai
A man was detained by the police in Navi Mumbai for allegedly uploading Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s image as his WhatsApp profile picture. He was later released by the police.
Mumbai Police booked a man for allegedly uploading Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s image as his WhatsApp profile picture, the police said on Sunday. The accused works in an outlet of a mobile service provider.
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