12-16-2008, 10:01 PM
May the Spirit of Dara Shikoh come back to India and bring back Islam to a more tolerant human face.
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Had Dara not been betrayed by his own and had succeeded tot he throne then the course of Indian history would have been diffirent .Aurengzeb ascended the throne and virtually destroyed the social fabric that Akbar had built and amalgamated.
Aurengzeb was instrumental in the destruction of the Hindu historical records and Library with his intolerant policy which was so meticulously collected and accumulated over the ages of peaceful existence in Varanasi and other monumental temples in terms of inscriptions, which were the main source of evidence of the past for our history.
The cultural bankruptcy he created is evident in the "Biwi ka Makbara" at Aurengabad in Ahmedabad dist of Maharashtra.This was originally designed for his tomb then he had his wife buried there.This structure is the epitome of the degeneration of the Mughal architecture and the death of its unique history .Its a replication of Taj Mahal in a very bad taste and very few people know about it .Even today you can see many of the monuments that were built during his time were structures extracted from destroyed hindu temples.
Shikoh devoted much effort towards finding a common mystical language between Islam and Hinduism. Towards this goal he translated the Upanishads from its original Sanskrit into Persian so it could be read by Muslim scholars. His translation is often called "Sirre Akbar" or The Greatest Mystery while in Arabic, the Upanishads are referred to as "Kitab al-maknun" or the hidden book. His most famous work, Majma ul-Bahrain ("The Mingling of the Two Oceans") was also devoted to finding the commonalities between Sufism and Hindu Monotheism. He was also a patron of fine arts, music and dancing, a trait frowned upon by his sibling Aurangzeb.
Dara perhaps would have changed the course of history with communal unity and perhaps upheld the great Hindustan that Akber had built as he was an able administrator,patron of art and literature and the most important thing was he wanted to have a harmonious blend of Hinduism and Islam
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Had Dara not been betrayed by his own and had succeeded tot he throne then the course of Indian history would have been diffirent .Aurengzeb ascended the throne and virtually destroyed the social fabric that Akbar had built and amalgamated.
Aurengzeb was instrumental in the destruction of the Hindu historical records and Library with his intolerant policy which was so meticulously collected and accumulated over the ages of peaceful existence in Varanasi and other monumental temples in terms of inscriptions, which were the main source of evidence of the past for our history.
The cultural bankruptcy he created is evident in the "Biwi ka Makbara" at Aurengabad in Ahmedabad dist of Maharashtra.This was originally designed for his tomb then he had his wife buried there.This structure is the epitome of the degeneration of the Mughal architecture and the death of its unique history .Its a replication of Taj Mahal in a very bad taste and very few people know about it .Even today you can see many of the monuments that were built during his time were structures extracted from destroyed hindu temples.
Shikoh devoted much effort towards finding a common mystical language between Islam and Hinduism. Towards this goal he translated the Upanishads from its original Sanskrit into Persian so it could be read by Muslim scholars. His translation is often called "Sirre Akbar" or The Greatest Mystery while in Arabic, the Upanishads are referred to as "Kitab al-maknun" or the hidden book. His most famous work, Majma ul-Bahrain ("The Mingling of the Two Oceans") was also devoted to finding the commonalities between Sufism and Hindu Monotheism. He was also a patron of fine arts, music and dancing, a trait frowned upon by his sibling Aurangzeb.
Dara perhaps would have changed the course of history with communal unity and perhaps upheld the great Hindustan that Akber had built as he was an able administrator,patron of art and literature and the most important thing was he wanted to have a harmonious blend of Hinduism and Islam