AURANGZEB ALAMGIR, THE PIOUS PERSECUTOR ... 1

AURANGZEB ALAMGIR, THE PIOUS PERSECUTOR ... 1

When people criticise Aurangzeb for being an intolerant ruler, one who persecuted the 'polytheistic' Hindu and his false idolatrous, 'polytheistic' religion which included the imposition of the jaziya, mass conversion by force and inducement, the destruction of 1800 temples including the major Hindu shrines at Mathura and Varanasi, the brutal execution of Guru Tegh Bahadurji for his refusal to convert to Islam, the burying alive of two minor sons of Guru Gobind Singhji and the treacherous assassination of the tenth Sikh Guru himself, why do they not understand that through the perpetraton of all these dastardly deeds he was all along only being a committed, true Muslim, one who was following the precepts of Islam as enshrined in the Qur'an, the Hadith and the Sira with fidelity and precision? People should remember Aurangzeb as the exemplar of the real Islam which mandates the conversion of the kafir (infidel in the eyes of Islam) or the penalty of death should he refuse, the destruction of worshipped idols, the houses of such worship (Hindu temples in this case), plunder and molestation of the infidel, the taxation of the Jew and the Christian in dar-ul-Islam (the realm of Islam) and by default that of the Hindus in Hindustan to facilitate their easy subjugation in the cause of Islam. Aurangzeb killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Hindus as per the mandate of his divine scripture. So, how can you label him as the originator of the dastardly destruction of the kafir? As a devout Muslim he was merely carrying out the scriptural injunctions that bound him theologically. 

Seek the source-cause of this Hindu genocide in India at the hands of Islamic invaders and rulers instead of superficially attempting to understand its causes which will only hide the core content of the doctrine that impelled it and continues to do so till date. Study the source books and you will get to realise why Aurangzeb, Shah Jahan, Jahangir, Akbar, Babur, the Lodhis, the Sayeeds, the Tughlaqs, the Khilijis, the Slave rulers and generals like Qutub-ud-Din Aibak and Bakhtiyar Khilji, their plundering, persecuting, murderous predecessors in Muhammad Ghori, Mahmud of Ghazni, Taimur Lung (Tamer Lane) and Muhammad Bin Qasim, and their latter-day successors like Nadir Shah, Ahmad Shah Abdali, Tipu Sultan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Hussein Shah Suhrawardy and others of this brutal brigade behaved the way they did. Why blame Aurangzeb alone? Blame the whole lot but forget not the source-cause that fuelled it. Study Sir Jadunath Sarkar and you will stand aghast and illumined as to what for 1300 years your forefathers had to undergo at the hands of these barbarians and their intolerant exclusive philosophy of life and death which had all but snuffed out the life of Hindu civilisation but for its intrinsic inner strength. Aurangzeb was but the climactic culprit in this serial oppression of Hindus that lasted 1300 years and continues to plague them even today all over the Indian subcontinent wherever they are a minority.

Seek not the superficial solution to this pernicious problem in the symptom but seek it in depth right at the source. It is a doctrinaire disease and it cannot be solved by superficial treatment. The symptoms are but the effects of the underlying source-cause that goes unheeded owing to political considerations. So, the disease persists and continues to plague humanity still. Aurangzebs are yet arising in a different garb owing to mass subscription to this intolerant philosophy. Here lies the ideological battle, the war of words, the titanic struggle to reorient brainwashed humanity to rational, humanistic existence where Man displaces a divisive God of unforgiving disposition.

All is not lost. If tribal populations historically initiated tribal cults, civilised people can in course of time duly replace them. It may take a bit of time, perhaps a few more generations but progress in that direction is the evolutionary imperative. If Hindus have suffered between 80 and 100 million deaths at the edge of the sword of Islam, it will be the Hindus who will deluge the world with the lofty spirituality of the Vedas. History will seek vengeance on behalf of the Hindus as the Sanatan Dharma eventually replaced all irrational, dated, intolerant cults and unites the world in a common bond of universal oneness. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose