"Its easy to joke on a Sardar, but it's too difficult to be a Sardar".
I was standing at jalandhar station when my attention went towards a
Sikh youth standing near me wearing a Black turban having a long beard
and wearing a kirpan over his shirt looking similar to a terrorist.
After a while, one local train arrived, which was totally packed. The
Sikh youth tried to alight the train but failed to do so.
Just then a voice was heard from the back coach 'Sardarji Barah Baj
gaye' (Sir it's 12 o'clock!)
The Sikh youth looked over at that voice maker who was a young
Mischievous type of person and instead of showing any anger made a
smile towards him.
The smile made was so enigmatic that it seemed as if some type of
truth lies behind it. Not able to resist my temptation, I walked
towards 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 my
Help' . I was surprised with these words and he told me that there was
a big history behind that which one should know. I was eager to know
the History and the Sikh youth narrated:
During 17th Century, when Hindustan was ruled by Mughals, all the
Hindu people were humiliated and were treated like animals. Mughals
treated the Hindu women as their own property and were forcing all
Hindus to accept Islam and even used to kill the people if they were
refusing to accept. That time, our ninth Guru, Sri Guru Teg Bahadarji
came forward ,in response to a request of some Kashmir Pandits to
fight against all these cruel activities. Guruji told the Mughal
emperor that if he could succeed in converting him to Islam, all the
Hindus would accept the same.
But, if he failed, he should stop all those activities . The Mughal
emperor happily agreed to that but even after lots of torture to
Guruji and his fellow members he failed to convert him to Islam and
Guruji along with his other four fellow members, were tortured and
sacrificed their lives in Chandni Chowk. Since the Mughals were unable
to convert them to Islam they were assassinated.
Thus Guruji sacrificed his life for the protection of Hindu religion.
Can anybody reading this lay down his life and that too for the
protection of another religion? This is the reason he is still
remembered as "Hind Ki Chaddar", shield of India. For the sake of whom
he had sacrificed his life, none of the them came forward to lift his
body, fearing that they would also be assassinated
Seeing this incident our 10th Guruji! , Sri Guru Gobind Singhji (Son
of Guru Teg Bahadarji) founder of the Khalsa made a resolution that he
would convert his followers to such human beings who would not be able
to hide themselves and could be easily located in thousands. At the
start, the Sikhs were very few in numbers as they were fighting
against the Mughal emperors. At that time, Nadir Shah raided Delhi in
the year 1739 and looted Hindustan and was carrying lot of Hindustan
treasures and nearly 2,200 Hindu women along with him. The news spread
like a fire and was heard by Sardar Jassa Singh who was the Commander
of the Sikh army at that time. He decided to attack Nadir Shah's
Kafila on the same midnight. He did so and rescued all the Hindu women
and they were safely sent to their homes.
It didn't happen only once but thereafter whenever any Abdaalis or
Iranis had attacked and looted Hindustan and were trying to carry the
treasures and Hindu women along with them for selling them in Abdal
markets, the Sikh army although fewer in numbers but were brave
hearted and attacked them at 12 o'clock midnight and rescued the
women.
After that time when there occurred a similar incident. People started
to contact the Sikh army for their help and Sikhs used to attack the
raiders at Midnight, 12 o'clock. Nowadays, these "smart people" and
some Sikh enemies who are afraid of Sikhs, have spread these words
that at 12 O'clock, the Sikhs go out of their senses. This historic
fact was the reason which made me smile over that person as I thought
that his Mother or Sister would be in trouble! and want my help and
was reminding me by saying 'Sardarji Barah Baj Gaye'
Pease don't make fun of religions. Every river is different but they
all flow into the ocean. "Its easy to joke on a Sardar, but it's too
difficult to be a Sardar"
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