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Thursday, April 06, 2006

History of 12 'o Clock and Sardars

barah baj gaye~!!!
There is an incident about the sardar's and 12 o clock this is thestory that my friend told me "I was standing at dadar station when myattention went towards a Sikh youth standing near me wearing a Blackturban having a long beard and wearing a kirpan over his shirt.
After a while, one local train arrived, which was totally packed. TheSikh youth tried to alight the train but failed to do so. Just then avoice was heard from the back coach 'Sardarji Barah Baj gaye' (Sirit's 12 o'clock!) The Sikh youth looked ! over at that voice maker whowas a young Mischievous type of person and instead of showing anyanger made a smile towards him.
The smile made was so enigmatic that it seemed as if some type oftruth lies behind it. Not able to resist my temptation, I walkedtowards him and asked why did he smile at that person who teased him.
The Sikh youth replied, 'He was not teasing me but was asking for myHelp'. I was surprised with these words and he told me that there wasa big history behind that which one should know. I was eager to knowthe History and the Sikh youth narrated:

During 17th Century, when Hindustan was ruled by Mughals, all theHindu people were humiliated and were treated like animals. Mughalstreated the Hindu women as there own property and were forcing allHindus to accept Islam and even used to kill the people if they wererefusing to accept.That time, our ninth Guru, Sri Guru Teg Bahadarjicame forward,in response to a request of some Kashmir Pandits to fightagainst all these cruel activities. Guruji told the Mughal emperorthat if he could succeed in converting him to Islam, all the Hinduswould accept the same. But, if he failed, he should stop all thoseactivities. The Mughal emperor happily agreed to that but even afterlots of torture to Guruji and his fellow members he failed to converthim to Islam and Guruji along with his other four fellow members, weretorture! d and sacrificed their lives in Chandni Chowk. Since theMughals were unable to convert them to Islam they were assassinated.Thus Guruji sacrificed his life for the protection of Hindu religion.
Can anybody lay down his life and that too for the protection ofanother religion? This is the reason he is still remembered as "HindKi Chaddar", shield of India . For the sake of whom he had sacrificedhis life, none of the them came forward to lift his body, fearing thatthey would also be assassinated . Seeing this incident our 10thGuruji, Sri Guru Gobind Singhji (Son of Guru Teg Bahadarji) founder ofkhalsa made a resolution that he would convert his followers to suchhuman beings who would not be able to hide themselves and could beeasily located in thousands.
At the start, the Sikhs were very few in numbers as they were fightingagainst the Mughal emperors. At that time, Nadir Shah raided Delhi inthe year 1739 and looted Hindustan and was carrying lot of Hindustantreasures and nearly 2200 Hindu women along with him. The news spreadlike a fire and was heard by Sardar Jassa Singh who was the Commanderof the Sikh army at that time. He decided to attack Nadir Shah'sKafila on the same midnight He did so and rescued all the Hindu womenand they were safely sent to their homes. It didn't happen only oncebut thereafter whenever any Abdaalis or Iranis had attacked and lootedHindustan and were trying to carry the treasures and Hindu women alongwith them for selling them in Abdal markets, the Sikh army althoughfewer in numbers but were brave hearted and attacked them at !midnight ,12 O'clock and rescued women. After that time when thereoccurred a similar incidence, people started to contact the Sikh armyfor their help and Sikhs used to attack the raider's at Midnight, 12O'clock.
Nowadays, these "smart people" and some Sikh enemies who are afraid ofSikhs, have spread these words that at 12 O'clock, the Sikhs go out oftheir senses. This historic fact was the reason which made me smileover that person as I thought that his Mother or Sister would be introuble and wants my help and was reminding me by saying off 'SardarjiBarah Baj Gaye' ." Plz do forward this mail to all ur friends so theycan know about sikh history & its a humble appeal
PLEASE dont make fun of RELIGIONS ! as every religion is as pure asurs.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are right. But sikhs are not going to bother of these small things.

great work.

badalj said...

i really feel of that what i think before on this comment but when i came to know such a great feeling behind this i feel very shame of myself
guruji ka khalsa
guru ji ji fatah