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How colorful was Muhammad Shah Rangeela? Part-2

Massacre



The next day was Eid-ul-Adha. A sermon in the name of Nadir Shah was recited in the mosques of Delhi and coins were minted in his name in the mints. Just a few days later, a rumor spread in the city that a prostitute had killed Nadir Shah. The residents of Delhi got angry and started killing the Iranian soldiers stationed in the city. What happened next is summed up in the pages of history as follows:

 

The sun's rays had just appeared from the eastern horizon when Nadir Shah Durrani came out of the Red Fort on his horse. His body was covered with armor, he had an iron head on his head and a sword on his back and the commander and generals were with him. It turned towards the Roshan Al-Dawla Mosque in Chandni Chowk, half a mile away. Standing in the high courtyard of the mosque, he drew his sword.

 

This was a signal to his troops. The massacre began at nine o'clock in the morning. The Qizilbash soldiers went from house to house and started stabbing what they found. There was so much bloodshed that it started flowing from the drains, Lahore Darwaza, Faiz Bazaar, Kabli Darwaza, Ajmeri Darwaza, Hauz Qazi, and densely populated areas of Johri Bazaar were covered with bodies, thousands of women were raped, hundreds fell into wells and committed suicide. Preferred Many killed their own daughters and wives so that they would not fall into the hands of Iranian soldiers.

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According to most historical references, 30,000 Delhiites fell to the sword that day. Finally, Muhammad Shah sent his prime minister Nizam-ul-Muk to Nadir Shah. It is narrated that Nizam-ul-Mulk appeared before Nadir Shah barefoot, bareheaded and recited this poem attributed to Amir Khosrow:

دگر نمانده کسی تا به تیغ ناز کشی ... مگر که زنده کنی مرده را و باز کشی

(And there is no one left whom you kill with your proud sword ... except to resurrect the dead and kill them again)

 

Going somewhere, Nadir Shah put the sword back in its sheath, and his soldiers stopped him. When the massacre stopped, the looting market opened. The city was divided into different parts and the army was put on duty to collect as much money as possible from there. Anyone who tried to hide his wealth was subjected to the worst kind of torture.

 

When the city was cleansed, Nadir Shah turned his attention to the royal palace. Mirza Mehdi Astarabadi, the court historian of Nadir Shah, has described it as follows. Within a few days, Amal was ordered to evacuate the royal treasury. There were seas of pearls and pearls, diamonds, jewels, gold and silver mines, which he had never even dreamed of. During our stay in Delhi, crores of rupees were transferred from the royal treasury to the treasury of Nadir Shah. The princes, nawabs, and kings of the court paid millions more in the form of gold and jewels as ransom.

 

For a month, hundreds of workers melted down gold and silver jewelry, utensils, and other utensils to make bricks so that they could be easily transported to Iran. Shafiqul-ur-Rehman, in his Tazak-e-Nadri, laughs out the details of this act: If you don't remember, then of course tie it together. People were beating their beards and saying over and over again that without us the Red Fort would look empty. It was a fact that the Red Fort seemed too empty for us.

 

How much wealth did Nadir Shah loot? According to an estimate by historians, it was worth Rs. 700 million at that time, which today amounts to 6 156 billion. That is equal to the three budgets of Pakistan! This was the world's largest armed robbery ever.

 

The Golden age of Urdu poetry



The court and official language of the Mughals were Persian, but as the court's grip on public life loosened, the language of the people, Urdu, began to emerge. Just like when the branches of a banyan tree are cut off, there is an opportunity for other plants to flourish under it. As a result, Muhammad Shah Rangeela's reign might be considered the "golden age" of Urdu poetry.

When the Diwan of Wali Deccani arrived in Delhi from the Deccan in 1719, the year of the king's procession, Muhammad Shah was on the throne. This Diwan caused a great stir in the literary lake of Delhi and for the first time it was revealed to the people here that poetry could be written in Urdu (then called Rekhta, Hindi, or Deccani).

As soon as we saw it, the Urdu poets' cheese was ready, with names like Shakir Naji, Najamuddin Abro, Sharafuddin Mazz, and Shah Hatim prominent.

Mirza Rafi Soda is a student of Shah Hatim. There is yet to be discovered an example of Mir Taqi Mir's ghazal, a contemporary of Soda. In Delhi of the same period, on one side is the monastery of Mir Dard, the same Mir Dar who is still considered to be the greatest Sufi poet of Urdu. Mir Hassan grew up in the same era whose Masnavi 'Sahar Al Bayan' is still his own example. Not only that, but the 'second class' poets who flourished during this period also include names that faded away at that time but would have shone like the moon in any other age. These include Mir Sooz, Qaim Chand Puri, Mirza Taban, and Mir Zahak.

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The Result

Excessive drinking and opium addiction had made Muhammad Shah hollow inside like his empire. That is why his age proved to be short. He had just reached the age of 46 when one day he had a sudden seizure. The doctors tried every prescription. They were picked up and transferred to the Hayat Bakhsh Bagh, but this garden did not prolong the hours of the king's life and he died the next day after being unconscious all night.

 


He was buried beside Amir Khosrow in the mausoleum of Nizamuddin Auliya. Perhaps the reason behind this is that just as Amir Khosrow's lion had prevented the massacre in Delhi, so perhaps his companionship might have provided some help to the king in his last life.

 

It was April 15 and the year was 1748. In a sense, this was a good thing for Muhammad Shah because in the same year, a general of Nadir Shah, Ahmad Shah Abdali, had launched an attack on India. Was not, and he did not lead any war against Nadir Shah except Karnal. Nor did they have the power and energy of Jahan-e-Bani and Jahan-e-Gari which was characteristic of the earlier Mughals. He was a man of action, not a man of action, and unlike his great-grandfather Aurangzeb, he was more interested in the fine arts than in the martial arts.

 

Is it right to put all the responsibility of demolition of the Mughal Empire on Muhammad Shah? We don't think so. Aurangzeb himself, with his extremism, austerity, and unprovoked mobilization, had started terminating the feet of the throne. Just as a healthy body needs a balanced diet, so a healthy society needs a lively and cheerful disposition as strong as an army. Aurangzeb emphasized the scales of the sword and the sword, then the great-grandson of the peacock and the lute. The result was the same as before. Despite all this, Muhammad Shah's political success is evidenced by the fact that he held the reins of the Mughal Empire in the face of adversity, foreign invasions, and the tyranny of powerful rulers. Only two Mughal rulers, Akbar and Aurangzeb, have preceded him, who ruled longer than Muhammad Shah. Was nothing more than a puppet of the Rohils, Marhats, and finally the British.

 

It would be unfair to ignore the role played by Muhammad Shah Rangeela in the promotion of Ganga-Jamni civilization and arts in India.


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