By Er Rajesh Pathak
There are no less Hindus visiting Mazars or Dargahs of the peers and fakirs supposed to be wielding the so-called godly or occult -power of granting wish and healing the miseries they suffered. Take a look at one instance of the history related to it: ‘Ghazi’ means – ‘The one who kills Kafirs’. One such Ghazi had been Salar Masood, the son of sister of Mehmood Ghaznavi. It was he who provoked Ghaznavi for the destruction of the Somnath temple. Later he himself took forward the Jihad in India from where Mehmood Ghaznavi left. Looking upon all the land to be the land of Allah, Masood when sent his commanders with the army to invade northern India what he said then, see- ‘I offer you all in the service of Allah! Show the mercy if Hindus adopt Islam, or else put them to sword.’ Fighting one after other battles Masood ultimately got killed on 15th June, 1033 in Bahraich of UP when shot by an arrow of the Great Hindu king Suhel Dev. Today in Bahraich lies the Dargah (Shrine) of ‘Gazi Sayyad Salar Masood’, where every year the Urs [Islamic gathering] is celebrated in which a great number of people gather to pay their tribute to ‘Ghazi’ Masood mian. Surprisingly, those coming here composed of more Hindus then the others. Forgetting the sacrifice of their ancestors, they go there to have their wish ‘fulfilled’, taking no pain to know how staunch a Jihadist, how sworn an enemy of Kafirs[Hindus] had been the one laid in the tomb. (Page- 9, 10; ‘Sufiyon dwara Bharat ka Islamikaran’ : Purshottam)
However, this year Yogi Adityanath has thankfully cancelled the permission of Urs to be organised in the memory of invader and destroyer of Sanatana Dharma, Salar Masood. Replacing it, Yogi announced to organise every year the three days event commemorating the victorious Maharaja Suheldev. The 40 ft high bronze statue of Maharaja Suheldev is also inaugurated near the bank of Chittora-Jheel. The medical college at Behraich is named after Maharaja Suheldev; so the hospital, after Balak Rishi, who was the guru of Suheldev. On this occasion Yogi said, what honour that Suheldev should have been bestowed with, that he did not get due to over paraded ‘secular’ polity of the country. The fanatic Salar Masood had continuously been glorified for years together simply to manage the votes of the 2nd largest majority. The days of displaying the dirty partiality with such brave Hindu personalities of motherland are over these seculars must learn, he added.
See , what the former editor of ‘Times of India’ , Late Girilal Jain, said – ‘Usually people fell a prey into illusion that whoever have been the Muslim Sufis or Fakirs they all should be held close to ourselves (Hindutva), considering them as liberals! This is the consequence of being ignorant of history. In my view the Sufis and Fakirs are none but the institutions for the admission into Islam.’
What Yogi did needs to be understood against the backdrop of what Girilal Jain said.
(The writer is an Engineer and a freelance columnist and can be reached at Mob: 9826337011/ 9755542841) Views expressed are Author’s own.
