Then Guru Ji came to Eminabad. At that time this place was known as Saidpur Sandyali. The Pathans were the rulers and administrators here. Their population was quite large. The town was hustling bustling and it was a trading centre. A fort was there. The rulers here were under the command of Sikander Lodhi, the Pathan ruler at Delhi. Many Sayyads and Muslim saints lived here. Hindu population was also large. Hindus also occupied some government posts.
Malik Bhago was a government official here on whose invitation Guru Nanak Dev Ji did not go for the feasting and when he was asked to come under an order, then he held a loaf of course grain from Bhai Lalo Ji's house in one hand and a fried bread from Malik Bhago's house in the other hand and squeezed. Milk squeezed out from Bhai Lalo Ji's loaf of coarse grain and blood from the fried bread from Malik Bhago's house. Then he said: See, the milk is honest earning and the blood is earning by taking bribes by threat and force.
After that, he travelled far and wide to allay the suffering of the people.
Now, again he came to meet the honestly earning man, the beloved Bhai Lalo Ji who was now dyed in the love of the Lord. The tyranny, that he had pinpointed and preached the path of love of the Lord to the people, had not diminished. The Lodhi king at Delhi was not so strong that he could establish strong domination all over India. So, in most of the states the rulers had become independent and their allegiance to the rulers at Delhi was in name only. Instead, they fought some wars with them. That is why they treated their subjects with cruelty. The officials and their subordinates were cruel and took bribes and gave suffering to their subjects. This was the plight that was talked in every house and was a cause of worry. The west noticed it and some groups of rich and poor even sent emissaries to ask other kings to help.
Now, when Guru Ji came to Eminabad (Saidpur Sandyali), then one day Bhai Lalo Ji narrated the sorrowful state of India and said: O true Guru Ji, there is so much tyranny. Even in Saidpur there is so much oppression.
Then the true Guru Ji said: People have no religiousness in them. They are in ignorance and forgetfulness of the Lord. When it becomes too hot a dust storm comes. That also shatters the trees and plants. Then sometimes it rains also.
In the evening, Lalo Ji came back from work. Some more holy people also came to listen to the divine songs. Guru Ji was sitting immersed in the love of the Lord in wondrousness. His 'more beautiful than lotus' face was radiant with love of the Lord but there was a slight frown on his forehead as if he was in a merciful mood. Everybody bowed and sat down.
Now, his eyes opened, he smiled and said: O Lalo Ji, I am saying as the Lord's will. The tyrant will come from Kabul and spread tyranny. No one whether a Hindu or Muslim whether a man or woman will be spared. Blood will spill and women will be treated shamelessly.
When, people heard this, they trembled. Lalo Ji's heart shivered. But Guru Ji, without any fear, prophesied what was likely to happen. The intuition had come from the heavens. In clear words he said: I have got this message from the Lord's palace. O Lalo Ji, I have narrated the same. That message of what is likely to happen is that Babar will start from Kabul with his troops and guns and ask for charity by force. Charity means wealth that he will want by force. The wealth of this land, the greed of which has always brought invaders from foreign lands. When some foreigner invader comes, what will happen? Shame and religion will hide themselves. The troops of the foreigners, the ruffians and the hooligans will create anarchy shamelessly. Women will be treated with viciousness.
The question arose that the invader are Muslims and here the present rulers and the rich are also Muslims. At least the Muslim women will be respected. Then Guru Ji said: No. Even the Muslim women whether rich or poor and who read the scripture while sitting at home in a veil and are pious will be treated viciously. They will shout O God, O God but nobody will listen.
Then the question arose that the Mughals have to forcibly take control of the territory, so they may be strict to them but the Hindus have to become their subjects, so, they might be merciful to them.
Then Guru Ji said: If we make anybody to suffer, he feels bad. Similarly if somebody makes us suffer, we feel bad. So, why make anyone to suffer. Like, when a marriage party comes one sings songs of happiness and sprinkles
saffron. In a similar way, the sin army will come and use the sword and spill blood. Every house will sing the songs of sorrow.
Nanak is singing the praises of the Lord. He is telling this in his human form. But the Lord who has created the world and put everybody in the wheel of deeds, he himself un-paralleled and unblemished is seeing everything.
The Lord is truth. His justice is truth. He will do justice according to the deeds done by everybody and He will be considerate.
The bodies will be cut like the cloth is cut. Whatever, I have said, everybody will see that it would be true. This army of sin will come in seventy-eight and go in ninety-seven. A disciple of Guru Ji will become victorious.
Nanak is telling the true words from the Lord. People will know that it is true, when it happens.
These words of Guru Ji became well-known in the circle of Guru-disciples but even other people came to know of it People were amazed and worried. One Brahmin brought a tray full of fruits, kept it in front of Guru Ji and said: O image of the Lord, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, you pray that what you have said should not happen.
The true Guru Ji said: I have not said anything from my own. I have told you what is destined from the Lord. The sin that has spread in the country, the wand of sin for its own punishment is coming in the image of King Babar. The sin will fight sin and the people will suffer. This is the will of the Lord as per the deeds of men. So this has to happen. This is inevitable. If you wish your own safety, then you along with your family go and settle at a pond that is a few kilometers from here. You will be saved.
Time passed and the time came when Babar with his army of sin arrived. The Pathan king, Lodhi, did not send his troops to stop him at Jamrod or Peshawar or Attuck or Rohtas or Jehlum. He moved un-hindered. The people in the country were lifeless due to lack of education and tyranny of centuries. The rulers in all states were intoxicated in luxuries and in sucking the blood of the poor. There was no unity amongst the people. People were divided and separated amongst themselves. There was no united organization. The Pathans were carried away by pride and the Hindus were plunged in slavery. Who would go to stop? It was misfortune for the villages and towns that came on Babar's way. If they accepted his authority and gave ration, then they would feel afraid that when Babar's troops go away after looting the country like Taimur, then the ruler at Delhi would punish them. If they don't give, then Babar's troops will create hell for them. But most of the rulers bowed down. Those who did not bow down suffered a lot.
The Saidpur ruler was also in this dilemma. It was an important base and a strong fort of the Pathans between Lahore and Attuck. The officials and the people also debated whether they should fight or bow down? The Hindus wished to bow down and avert the fight but the Muslim saints for whom this town was a fortune said that they would make him run away with their supernatural powers and the Pathans said that they will shoot them with their arrows.
In these debates Babar and his troops arrived. The rulers of Saidpur had thought that if they did not fight, then after Babar leaves, Lodhi ruler of Delhi would punish them. So, it might be better to fight and be victorious. Seeing the totality of the situation it was better to fight. But they did not know that Babar was bringing a new weapon. In the west, guns were being manufactured and that was a new weapon. Babar had brought this new weapon with his troops. The Pathans in India possessed arrows or horse-riding troops and lancers or elephants or chariots. So, the Pathans of Saidpur closed the gates of the fort and banned giving of rations to Babar's troops. The troops with their bows and arrows climbed rooftops to shoot arrows. The Muslim priests and saints sat in mosques and used their supernatural powers to get rid of Babar's troops. The Hindu priests were asked to sit in temples and pray. The Pathans were confident that our Muslim priests and saints by their supernatural powers would make the guns of Babar silent.
Babar and his troops camped on the outskirts of the town and started firing bullets with their guns. Then they were able to break the wall of the fort and enter. The Pathans who fought back were killed in large numbers. Then the troops entered the city. There they committed so much massacre and barbarous oppression that they established domination in brutality. They looted the neighboring villages and ruined them. Hindus, Pathans, Muslims all were treated in a beastly way. They tore clothes of Hindu and Muslim women, dragged them in the market holding their hair. They put ash in their mouths and beat them mercilessly and forced them to give their gold and jewelry that they were wearing and all wealth that was in their houses. There remained no safety of their respect, honor and chastity. In their brutality they had no mercy for the old or child or a woman. Even, the princes and rich landlords were not spared. Muslims, despite the fact that they had the same faith were not spared. Rarely anybody could save himself by hiding in underground basements or behind stacks of wheat chaff.
Now, Babar's troops collected gold, silver and rupees worth millions and tied the women with ropes to carry the plunder. Those who were saved were
now made prisoners to carry the looted material to their camp. Princesses and rich women with clothes torn, body covered with dust and ash, wounded and injured, molested and raped, tied with ropes were made to carry the materials on their heads.
At this time, Guru Ji had again come to Saidpur. Guru Ji and Mardana Ji also became prisoners. Mardana Ji was told to escort a horse of Mir Khan, an army officer. Guru Ji asked Mardana Ji to leave the horse and sing the divine songs while walking.
With the other prisoners, Guru Ji also walked dyed in the love of the Lord. It is written that he was also asked to carry one item on his head but the item remained a little above his head and went along as if carried.
Guru Ji saw the suffering of the people. The women were pushed around and were walking tied to ropes as slaves. The town was devastated, looted, people killed and blood spilled. It was calamity. At this time, Mir Khan, army officer, while on duty came to the place where Guru Ji was walking. When he became attentive to see, what he saw was that two Indians who were in captivity were exceptional. The weight being carried by one of them was being carried about six inches high from the head and was going along. The other was playing the rebeck while walking and the horse that he was supposed to escort was following him without being held by a rope and he was singing a divine song that was enthralling.
Now, all the prisoners including Guru Ji who were walking towards the camp of the invaders reached the camp. There, the prisoners were put on different jobs. Grinding wheels were put in front of Guru Ji and Mardana Ji and they were told to grind wheat.
Here, Mir Khan went and told Babar that two saints have come as prisoners but they are walking in delight and their faces are lustrous. The weight is being carried six inches high from the head by itself and the horse is following without being held by the rope and they are singing some divine songs.
Babar said: Alas! If there was a saint like this in town, why did we attack?
Saying this, Babar himself came to the camp. Here he saw that Hindu, Muslim and Pathan women were grinding wheat and very wealthy people were doing hard jobs. Then he walked ahead and saw that two saints are sitting but the grinding wheels are moving by themselves. Babar was amazed to see that Then he wished to talk to Guru Ji but Guru Ji was in wondrousness in meditation. He opened his eyes after sometime and sang a song in praise of the Lord. The effect of the melody and tune of the song was such that Babar
and his courtiers were enthralled. When the song finished, Babar said that this saint is an image of the Lord and it is written that Babar kissed Guru Ji's feet and all Mughal courtiers bowed to him.
Babar said: O beloved of the Lord, you forgive me and accept some gift from me.
Then the ocean of forgiveness and mercy said: I have no desires. If you wish to give a gift, then you release these prisoners and return their belongings. Babar, immediately, released all the prisoners and returned their belongings. But they said that our saviour should accompany us. Then with great respect he asked Guru Ji to accompany the released prisoners. He allowed the prisoners to go to their homes. He lifted the blockade of the town and ordered that no troops should harass anybody. They are freed now.
Now, the bestowal of freedom, who himself went into captivity and got the prisoners freed, came to the city along with the freed prisoners. Here again he saw dead bodies and blood spilled all over.
It became known all around that the beloved Guru Nanak Dev Ji has got the prisoners freed in Saidpur. This news spread in no time. The people who had run away from Saidpur returned. People cried and wailed for the dead relatives and in suffering of their houses destructed and looted. Those, who came back after release from the barbarous troops met each other with extreme warmth. People started cremating or burying the dead and started life afresh with whatever was left.
Now, Guru Ji came to know that there were still many people in Babar's captivity. The troops of Babar are still taking people as prisoners. The troops have taken many beautiful women as prisoners. Many people from the neighbouring areas are still in captivity. They have been detained at a distant place. Some people whom the families thought have died or killed are still living but in captivity and they are being put to hard labor. The benevolent Guru Ji again went towards Babar's camp and again sang a divine song.
When the heart-piercing melody went into Babar's ears, then he sent for Guru Ji and made him sit with great respect and asked what is it that you are singing? When he understood the meanings of the words, then he felt ashamed and became humble and offered hashish to Guru Ji.
Guru Ji did not accept his offer of hashish and sang another divine song. Then Babar was delighted and he said: You stay as my guest When he insisted much, then Guru Ji agreed and stayed there for three days. But all the three days he was looking at the prisoners with merciful eyes. On the third day Guru Ji while singing a divine song went into a wondrous trance. Babar thought that Guru Ji's soul might leave this earthly body but after sometime the magnificent Guru Ji became alert His face showered heavenly radiance and there was a dazzle on his forehead. Babar could not bear the dazzle and asked him forgiveness.
Then Guru Ji said: If you wish forgiveness, then you release all the prisoners.
Babar said: Whatever you order, I will do but you bless that my kingdom should remain.
Guru Ji said: Your kingdom will remain if you become Indian in India. Treat Hindus and Muslims as equal, do justice without bias. Do not encourage wine and gambling, respect the saints and Muslim priests, be merciful to the losers, otherwise, kingdoms do not remain forever.
Justice is the sun and kingdom is its shade. If justice goes, the kingdom goes. On listening to the words of Guru Ji, Babar freed all the prisoners. Then he asked Guru Ji to embrace Muslim religion but no Muslim intellectual could come up to the spirituality of Guru Ji.
Then Guru Ji sang a divine song and Babar was impressed.
Guru Ji got all the prisoners freed from Babar and then he departed for Pasrur. It is written that Babar also went back from here.
It is written that this happened in 1521 A.D.
How much benevolent Guru Ji has been to us while dyed in the love of the Lord? How much calamity fell on Saidpur that is now called Eminabad?
The tyrant Babar's troops were so cruel to the people of Saidpur. But how Guru Ji allayed the suffering of the people in distress by his divinity and by putting himself in captivity? How, he himself got imprisoned? How he faced the most merciless king and how he freed the suffering people?
Not only this, then he put the people of Saidpur on the true path of 'recitation of the Lord's name with love'. In the old biography, it is mentioned that most people in Saidpur became Guru-disciples. This love and blessings of Guru Ji tie our souls to Guru Ji as a personal relationship. His love makes us indebted to love him and fills our heart with love and gratitude and makes us pray to him in endearment May I be a sacrifice to you?
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