The religion of Love

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!! Sri Rama Jayam !!

 

A list of facts, many of which we are not aware of :

 

1. That Lord Rama blessed Prince Dara Shikoh in a dream (eldest son of Emperor

Shahjahan and to-be King of India) to translate the Bhagavad Gita into Persian?

(This Geeta reached the west and India's Vedic history was rediscovered. Prince

Dara was a great Sanskrit scholar and loved by the pundits of Kashi, the Sikh

Gurus and the Sufis alike. He was murdered by his youngest brother Aurangzeb,

for the throne)

 

 

2. That Goswami Tulsidas, the great devotee of Lord Ram, wrote the Ramayana

under protection of the Mughal governor of Banaras, his best friend, Abdul Rahim

Khankhana, (the great Krishna bhakta, famous for Rahim ke dohe)? Goswami

Tulsidas was harassed by the powerful Brahmin priests, who did not want him to

compose the Ramayana in the jan-bani, but Sanskrit.

 

 

3. Baba Bulleh Shah, the great Punjabi Sufi poet's Guru was Madhavlal Hussain,

neither a Hindu nor a Muslim?

He said: Masjid dha de, mandir dha, dha de jo kucch dainda, Par kisi da Dil na

dhain, Rab dilan which rehnda.. Break the temple, Break the mosque, Break what

else besides, But break not a Human heart, Because that's where God resides.

 

 

4. That the Suhagan (married women) Sufis of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, dressed like

Hindu brides, with red sindoor and called themselves the dulhans (bride) of

God/Allah? Lal sindoor (Red Sindoor) and chooris are offered at their dargahs.

 

 

5. That the slogan 'Jai Hind' was coined by Capt. Abid Hasan of the Subhash

Chandra Bose's INA in 1942? (The official greeting of the Netaji's Azad Hind

Fauj and a mantra for all Indians)

 

 

6. That Frontier Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan organized the largest, 2 lakh

non-violent army of sataygrahis for India's freedom? (Under the British attacks,

Frontier Gandhi said that: 'My religion and my devotion to Bapu and India are

one..')

 

 

7. That Shivaji, the great Maratha leader, had both Hindus and Muslims as his

generals and was equal to people of all faiths in his army. He ordered his

followers to never attack women, children and holy books like the Quran.

 

 

8. That in the Great War of independence in 1857, Rani Lakhsmi Bai of Jhansi was

protected by her Muslim Pathan generals, Ghulam Ghaus Khan and Khudaad Khan?

(They guarded her Jhansi fort till they died, Their last words: For our queen we

shall lay down our life, hack the firangis)

 

 

9. That Guru Gobind Singh's best friend was a Sufi called Baba Badruddin, who

sacrificed his life, all his sons, his brothers and 700 disciples in the Guru's

battle against Aurangzeb? He called this the true path of Islam against

injustice and was so loved by the Guru, that he offered his khalsa comb and

sword to him, still at his dargah, Kange Shah, near Ambala.

 

 

10. That the Nawabs of Awadh, spent 13 days in celebrating Holi? Wajid Ali

Shah's court played Rasalila, for Lord Krishna. The most famous Hindu dharmic

play, Indra Sabha was composed in his court by a Muslim writer.

 

 

11. That the foundation of the Sikh's Golden temple, was laid by a Muslim Sufi,

Hazrat Mian Mir, the best friend of Guru Arjun Dev? (He was also the teacher of

Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh, whose life the Sikh Guru, had saved as a child due to

his great love for him)

 

 

12. That Guru Nanak's lifelong companion was Mian Mardana, a Muslim rabab

player? (He is the first singer of Sikh gurbani- and traveled with Guru Nanak

from Hardwar to Mecca. Mian Mardana's descendants played the rabab in the Golden

temple for 500 years till 1947.

 

 

13. That the Sufis of India celebrate Basant panchmi by singing Saraswti

vandanas since 800 years? (They revived Basant, by bringing sarson flowers and

saffron chadars to the dargahs. The great poet, Amir Khusro has written hundreds

of Holi geets to his Guru, whom he compares to Krishna: Mohe suhagan, rang

basanti rang de Khwajaji/ Aao, Sufiion sang Hori khelo)

 

 

14. That Ras Khan was one of the many Muslim Krishna bhakts? (like Bhikan, Ras

Khan and Malik Mohhammed Jayasi of Padmavat). He renounced everything to live in

Vrindavan, upon seeing a baniya's son, whom he worshipped as Krishna. Hundreds

of Krishna bhajans have been written by Muslims like Amir Khusro, Rahim, Hazrat

Sarmad, Dadu, Baba Farid, many of which are part of the Guru Granth sahib.

 

 

15. That Baz bahadur and Roopmati, the King and Queen of Mandu were a Rajput's

daughter and the son of Khilji. When Baz Bahadur was defeated by the Mughals in

battle of Mandu, Rupmati poisoned herself than be separated.

 

 

16. That in Bengal, the women sing a devi bhajan that only when the Hindus and

Muslims brothers live together in peace, will Ma Laxmi stay in their land? (Ma

Laxmi came back when Akbar the Nyayi was King, but when the English made the two

brothers fight, she will leave.. )

 

May these instances bless India & world to understand the 'True religion'.

Source :

http://alternativeperspective.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_alternativeperspective_arc\

hive.html

 

Hare Krishna

Hare Rama