Avtar Singh 
Resistance to invaders is our tradition. It is written in Magasthenes’ book ‘Indica’ that when Alexander came here, a group of saints blocked his way. It was found that the guru of these sadhus lives in the forest of Takshila. Sikandar sent a message to meet him and threatened him with the threat of death and the lure of wealth. But that sadhu was neither afraid nor greedy. When Sikandar himself went to him, he told Sikandar clearly that he is a sadhu and he has no need for wealth. Whatever he needs, nature has provided everything. He can take his life, not the soul and living on the spiritual level is the identity of man.
When the Mughal raider Babur invaded India, he met the fakir Guru Nanak in Saidpur. The King called him ‘Jabar’ and described his raiding party as ‘Paap ki Janna’. Babur must have guessed from this meeting that someone can challenge his plans here.
Guru Nanak Dev ji started the movement of commonality and common good to thwart the Babri plans. The fifth and ninth kings were martyred for this movement. The tenth king created the Khalsa Panth for this movement and declared a religious war. The eye of the government turned sour and Sri Anandpur Sahib was besieged. Seeing the distress of the situation, some of the Singhs gave up and the king bade farewell to Sri Anandpur Sahib.
The battle of Ghamsana took place on the banks of the rising Sarsa river and the family got separated. The king had four children. The elder two Sahibzades Ajit Singh and Jujhar Singh were with them but nothing was known about the younger two Sahibzades Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh and old mother Gujri ji. The king reached the rough fort of Chamkaur. Then the war of Ghamsana took place. The king led his eldest sons to the battlefield with his own hands. Both the sons were martyred along with the Sikhs in front of their eyes.
In the pre-dawn darkness, the king left the fortress of Chamkaur barefoot. They reached Raikot tired, hungry, suffering and sleepless for many days. Asking his Sikh Rai Kalle to bring the news of the old mother and little Lal, he immediately sent his servant Noore Mahi.
He had just left when the king got upset and started saying again and again, “Find out Noore Mahi.” Climb a tree and see if Nura Mahi comes.” The love of children in the king’s heart, the sorrow of family separation. Nura Mahi Masan came. There was nothing to be said. The downcast face and teary red eyes were telling the whole story. The king sat in a solemn posture and began to root the kahi plant with the tip of his unchained arrow.
Noore Mahi, complaining, told that Chhote Lal and Mata Gujri ji could not cross the Sarsa River, so they secretly walked on the banks of the Sarsa. At last, when the Sarsa river joined the Sutlej, a hut was seen on that triangle, in which lived a sailor named Kumme Mashki. Mother stayed here with small children. Kumme Mashki fed the mother and children by asking for bread from the village. Mother ji put the children to sleep and rested in the hut of Kumme Mashki on the bank of Sarsa, which had climbed the Satiluj. Kumma Mashki kept watch outside throughout the night.
When morning came, Kumme made Sarsa cross by boat. When they went further, the mother sat under a tree along with the children. The passer-by asked why they were sitting here, so Mother said, ‘That’s the way it is’. Needless to say, they were sitting here ‘just like that’, but in this ‘just like that’ there was a hint of some indescribable and unbearable pain.
I don’t know how the mother took the children and went to the village of Gangu. Gangu served well and fed him and put him to sleep. The tired mother and children fell asleep after many days. Dishonesty came to Gangu’s mind and he stole a bag of stamps from mother’s belongings. In the morning, when Mother asked, he started talking awa-tawa. When reprimanded, he got angry and went to the Chaudhary of the village and gave him the information of mother and children. Then Gangu and Chowdhury went to the Thanedar of Morinde in the lure of the big reward.
At the same time, the Thanedar took the soldier with him and arrested the mother along with the Sahibzades and presented them to the Nawab Wazir Khan of the province of Sirhind. The state immediately detained the mother and small children in the cold tower of the fort. The state sent soldiers to bring the children to appear in court the next day. It was an extremely painful hour for the mother handing over her son’s bot children to the soldiers. It is said that while entering the court of the state, the two children first stepped inside the small door and called Fateh loudly. There was silence in the courtroom.
Diwan Sucha Nand broke the silence and started saying to the children, “Your father, elder brother and all the Sikhs have been killed.” Now the only way left for you is to bow your head and accept Islam.” The children boldly refused. He remembered the testimony of his grandfather Guru Teg Bahadur Ji’s sacrifice heard from his grandmother. I remembered the testimony of the martyrdom of my grandfather, Guru’s grandfather, Pancham Patshah, that “puran purukh do not shake.”
Wazir Khan himself said that if they accepted Islam, they would be enriched with jagirs and facilities. When the children refused again, Wazir Khan sent them back to the cold tower. Threatened with all kinds of temptations, but he was absolutely adamant. No threat and no greed could sway the king’s children.
The next day they were produced in the court again. Wazir Khan began to offer various lures, but the children steadfastly refused. Wazir Khan was furious and started recommending severe punishments.
Nawab Sher Muhammad of Malerkotle advocated for the children and said that it is not Islam to punish the children for what their father did. When he recommended the release of the children, the representative of the state, Sucha Nand, added fuel to the fire.
When Sucha Nand’s story came to light, the state, on the recommendation of the Qazi, ordered the children to be inscribed on the walls while they were still alive. Hearing the order of extreme and fury, the amber felt a tremor, the earth wanted to split and the apprehensions of using an untold fury began to manifest. The order of the state was complied with; The children were made to stand in the foundations and the masonry was started. When the wall came up, the children were again asked to accept Islam. The little children remained completely unmoved. The work of nature that the raw masonry fell and the children became unconscious. They were taken back to the cold tower and regained consciousness. For the third time, the children were produced in the court. Then asked to choose between death and Islam. The children remained steadfast and steadfast. By the order of Wazir Khan, the executioner first killed the elder Sahibzade Zorawar Singh and then the younger Fateh Singh with a sword.
Todar Mall, the moneylender of Sirhind, found out that he left all his work and ran to Wahodahi to rescue Guru K Lalan by giving money, but he had already used the money before he arrived. He went to the cold tower at the same time and told Mata ji the news of the furious shock. On hearing this, Mata ji was absorbed in steadfast samadhi and gave up her life at the same time. Todar Mall bought the land at an expensive price and cremated the mother and children. There was an outcry everywhere.
The state came to know that Moti Mehra has been giving hot milk to the mother and children in a cold tower, so they tortured and martyred Moti Mehra’s parents, wife and little child in Kohlu. When Nura Mahi was narrating the martyrdom of Guru K Lalan, the king’s eyes became moist and tears began to appear in the left eye on the side of the heart. The heroic story of children like bot appeared in the eyes of the king like a drop of water and became a part of history. Unspeakable history can only be written in tears, not in letters. What pen is there, which can write the story of the king’s unshed tears or describe the debt and pain of that tear!
There the saga ended and here the kahi plant was dug. The king was as silent and serious as one can be after listening to the epic story of his mother and the nikke lalan. Soon the king began to say, “Just as this kahi plant was uprooted, so is the root of the Mughal Empire.” Ati indicates the end; Aurangzeb’s death spelled the end of the Mughal Empire. By giving such a sign and message, the king blessed Rai Kalle with a Kirpan and laid the steps in front of him.
The king wrote ‘Zafarnama’ to Aurangzeb. As if the universe has written a zafarnama on total amber. It marked the end of the reign of Aurangzeb, the ruler of the Mughal dynasty’s most severe, brutal and vast sultanate. Finally the day came when the Mughal Empire came to an end. In the coffin of the Mughal Empire, Guru Nanak Dev ji destroyed the first fort by calling Babur an oppressor and the last fort fell to the youngest children of the tenth king and the Mughal Sultanate ended. Dasmesh Pita gave martyrdom for the common good and the good of all. The greatest religion is the same. Let us remember the great sacrifice of the king’s reds today and bow down with moist eyes.
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