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SANJHI VIRASAT: KNOW INDIA, KNOW YOURSELF, KNOW YOUR
NEIGHBOUR
  		

     Had Dara Shikoh remained, on the Delhi throne,
all would have been well with Hindustan 
- Shivaji, in letter to Jai Singh 

1. DID YOU KNOW: 
Lord Ram 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 bhakt, 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 Sufis of Ahmedabad, Gujarat,
dressed like Hindu brides, with red sindoor and called
themselves the dulhans of God/ Allah? Lal 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
Raslila, 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.. like now )
There are hundreds of other examples like Kabir Das,
Mast Qalandar Sachal Sarmast, Ghalib, Ram Mohan Roy
who lived according to our Sanjhi Virasat.

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sanjhiqalam at yahoo.co.in 
 


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