02-04-2006, 08:57 PM
About Bhojshala:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->5. Dhar
This is a famous town in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, and head-quarters of a distinct of the same name. It was the capital of the renowned Bhoja Parmãra who ruled between AD 1000 and 1055. It has a mausoleum known to be that of Shykh âAbdullãh Shãh Changãl, now in ruins. The doorway of the entrance to the mausoleum has a long inscription in Persian which, after singing fulsome praises of the Shykh, says:
âThis centre became Muhammadan first by him (and) all the banners of religion were spread⦠This lion-man came from the centre of religion to this old temple with a large force. He broke the images of the false deities, and turned the idol temple into a mosque. When Rãi Bhoj saw this, through wisdom he embraced Islãm with the family of his brave warriors. This quarter became illuminated by the light of the Muhammadan law, and the customs of the infidels became obsolete and abolished. Now this tomb since those days has become the famous pilgrimage-place of the world. Graves from their oldness became levelled (to the ground), (and) there remained no mound on any grave. There was [no place] also for the retirement, wherein the distressed dervish could take rest⦠The Khaljî king MaHmûd Shãh who is such that by his justice the world has become adorned like paradise; he built afresh this old structure, and this house with its enclosure again became new⦠From the hijra it was 859 (AD 1455) that its (the buildingâs) date was written anewâ¦â25
The inscription was put up by Mahmûd Shah Khaljî of Malwa, who overthrew the independent Ghurî dynasty of that province in AD 1436 and ruled as the founder of the independent Khaljî dynasty of Malwa till 1469. Nothing is known about âAbdullãh Shãh Changãl except that he hailed from Medina and was one of the earliest crusaders of Islam in Malwa. G. Yazdani who has published and translated this inscription speculates that âAbdullãh belonged to the army of Mahmûd of Ghaznî who fought with Rãjã Bhojaâ and though he âmight have converted only a few Hindus to Islãm, after a period of four hundred years, can easily have been believed to have converted Rãjã Bhoja with all his family and others to Islãm.â26 It is, however, more probable, as some other scholars have surmised, that the Hindu king was Bhoja II who ascended the throne at Dhar in AD 1283 and during whose reign Jalãluâd-Dîn Khaljî (AD 1290-1296) of Delhi is known to have invaded Malwa. In that case Abdullãh Shãh Changãl seems to have been a Muslim missionary who accompanied the army of Islam from Delhi, destroyed a Hindu temple, built a mosque in its place, and forced the Hindu king to profess the faith of the victor.
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/htemples2/ch6.htm#25<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So this is another case of religion of peace in action, Hindus were lathicharged to prevent them from praying at the site, its more like Pakistan not Hindustan.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->5. Dhar
This is a famous town in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, and head-quarters of a distinct of the same name. It was the capital of the renowned Bhoja Parmãra who ruled between AD 1000 and 1055. It has a mausoleum known to be that of Shykh âAbdullãh Shãh Changãl, now in ruins. The doorway of the entrance to the mausoleum has a long inscription in Persian which, after singing fulsome praises of the Shykh, says:
âThis centre became Muhammadan first by him (and) all the banners of religion were spread⦠This lion-man came from the centre of religion to this old temple with a large force. He broke the images of the false deities, and turned the idol temple into a mosque. When Rãi Bhoj saw this, through wisdom he embraced Islãm with the family of his brave warriors. This quarter became illuminated by the light of the Muhammadan law, and the customs of the infidels became obsolete and abolished. Now this tomb since those days has become the famous pilgrimage-place of the world. Graves from their oldness became levelled (to the ground), (and) there remained no mound on any grave. There was [no place] also for the retirement, wherein the distressed dervish could take rest⦠The Khaljî king MaHmûd Shãh who is such that by his justice the world has become adorned like paradise; he built afresh this old structure, and this house with its enclosure again became new⦠From the hijra it was 859 (AD 1455) that its (the buildingâs) date was written anewâ¦â25
The inscription was put up by Mahmûd Shah Khaljî of Malwa, who overthrew the independent Ghurî dynasty of that province in AD 1436 and ruled as the founder of the independent Khaljî dynasty of Malwa till 1469. Nothing is known about âAbdullãh Shãh Changãl except that he hailed from Medina and was one of the earliest crusaders of Islam in Malwa. G. Yazdani who has published and translated this inscription speculates that âAbdullãh belonged to the army of Mahmûd of Ghaznî who fought with Rãjã Bhojaâ and though he âmight have converted only a few Hindus to Islãm, after a period of four hundred years, can easily have been believed to have converted Rãjã Bhoja with all his family and others to Islãm.â26 It is, however, more probable, as some other scholars have surmised, that the Hindu king was Bhoja II who ascended the throne at Dhar in AD 1283 and during whose reign Jalãluâd-Dîn Khaljî (AD 1290-1296) of Delhi is known to have invaded Malwa. In that case Abdullãh Shãh Changãl seems to have been a Muslim missionary who accompanied the army of Islam from Delhi, destroyed a Hindu temple, built a mosque in its place, and forced the Hindu king to profess the faith of the victor.
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/htemples2/ch6.htm#25<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So this is another case of religion of peace in action, Hindus were lathicharged to prevent them from praying at the site, its more like Pakistan not Hindustan.