1/n In “Hindu Temples - What happened to them - Vol 1” Shree Sitaram Goel provides a revealing insight breaking the myth of the true “liberalism” of the Sufi sect of Islam which is regarded by many Leftist historians & apologists as secular & peace-loving towards Hindus
2/n He provides citations from the books Miftah-ul-Futuh, Tarikh-i-Alai & Ashiqa
by Amir Khusru (1325 CE) the “saintly & spiritual” disciple of Shaikh Nizamuddin Awliya, who is celebrated as a Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar.
3/n Khusru is hailed as the father of a composite Hindu- Muslim culture & the pioneer of secularism. These “peaceful” excerpts show how happy Khusru was to praise Jalaluddin Khalji, Alauddin Khalji & their military, as he describes their terrible destruction of Hindu temples.
4/n “1. Jhain: Next morning he (Jalalud-Din) went again to the temples and ordered their destruction. While the soldiers sought every opportunity of plundering, the Shah was engaged in burning the temples and destroying the idols.
5/n There were two bronze idols of Brahma, each weighing more than a 1000 mans. These were broken to pieces & the fragments distributed among the officers, with orders to throw them down at the gates of the Masjid on return (to Delhi)
6/n 2. Devagiri: He (Alaud-Din) destroyed the temples of the idolaters and erected pulpits and arches for
mosques
7/n 3. Somanath: They made the temple prostrate itself towards the Kaaba. You may say that the temple first offered its prayers and then had a bath (i.e. the temple was made to topple and fall into the sea)
8/n He (Ulugh Khan) destroyed all the idols and temples, but the biggest idol to the court of his Godlike Majesty so that in the ancient stronghold of idolatry, the summons to Muslim prayers was proclaimed so loudly that they heard it in Misr (Egypt) and Madain (Iraq)
9/n 4. Delhi: Alaud-Din ordered the circumference of the new minar to be made double of the old one (Qutb Minar). The stones were dug out from the hills and the temples of the infidels were demolished to furnish a supply.
10/n 5. Ranthambhor: This strong fort was taken by the slaughter of the stinking Rai. Jhain was also captured, an iron fort abode of idolatry, & a new city of the people of the faith arose. The temple of Bahir (Bhairava) Deo and temples of other gods, were all razed to the ground
11/n 6. Brahmastpuri (Chidambaram): Malik Kafur heard that in Bramastpuri there was a golden idol. He then determined on razing the temple to the ground. It was the holy place of the Hindus which the Malik dug up from its foundations with the greatest care.
12/n And the heads of brahmans and idolaters danced from their necks and fell to the ground at their feet, and blood flowed in torrents. The stone idols called Ling Mahadeo, which had been established a long time at the place
13/n On which the women of the infidels rubbed their vaginas for satisfaction, these, up to this time, the kick of the horse of Islam had not attempted to break. The Musulmans destroyed the lings and Deo Narain fell down
14/n And other gods who had fixed their seats there raised feet and jumped so high that at one leap they reached the fort of
Lanka, and in that fright the lings themselves would have fled had they had any legs to stand on
15/n 7. Madura: They found the city empty for the Rai had fled with the Ranis, but had left two or three hundred elephants in the temple of Jagnar (Jagannatha). The elephants were captured and the temple burnt
16/n 8. Fatan: (Pattan): There was another rai in these parts, a Brahmin named Pandya Guru - his capital was Fatan, where there was a temple with an idol in it laden with jewels. The rai fled when the army of the Sultan arrived at Fatan
17/n They then struck the idol with an iron hatchet, and opened its head. Although it
was the very Qibla of the accursed infidels, it kissed the earth and filled the holy treasury
18/n 9. Malabar: On the right hand and on the left hand the army has conquered from
sea to sea, and several capitals of the gods of the Hindus, in which Satanism has prevailed since the time of the Jinns, have been demolished.
19/n All these impurities of infidelity have been cleansed by the Sultans. The destruction of idol-temples, beginning with his first holy expedition to Deogir, so that the flames of the light of the Law (of Islam) illumine all these unholy countries,
20/n The places for the criers of prayers are
exalted on high, and prayers are read in mosques. Allah be praised! “
This is the real story of how Islamic invaders sought to destroy the very foundations of Hindu society and culture is
21/n It is Leftist historians & later Bollywood who kept these insidious myths of the secular & peace living Sufis alive. The words of the champion of Sufism - Amir Khusru are enough evidence to show how much they enjoyed destroying Hindu culture for the sake of Islam.
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Talk about a nasty bag full of distortions and outright lies. That Shree Rama existed centuries before Buddha was even born is attested directly by authentic Buddhist sources themselves. I will methodically dissect and disprove every deceptive claim by fact checking it against authoritative and authentic sources. Please read all parts of the entire thread to the end including the screenshots which provide crucial evidence. 🧵
Claim # 1:
Ram is a mythological character, whereas Buddha was a real historical figure—there’s simply no comparison.
Fact: False. This claim is disproven by the oldest & most authoritative Buddhist biography of Buddha’s life itself - Aśvaghoṣa’s (2nd c.) Buddhacharita. The Buddhacharita documents that Buddha belonged to the same Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty as Rama; it pays homage to Valmiki as the Adikavi and mentions Janaka too. After he renounces his family, Buddha’s father sends a wise advisor to the forest to try & convince him to return back home. The advisor tries to persuade him to return by mentioning Rama as an example - as someone from older times, who returned after penance in forests to protect his kingdom against evil. In response Buddha himself says he cannot do what Rama did & refuses to return. This clearly proves that Rama was already revered as an ancient historical personality to be emulated in Buddha’s times.
Claim # 2: Buddha was not a descendant of Ram because Ram never existed in reality.
Fact: False. Disproved by the very first chapter on Buddha’s Birth in the authoritative biography Buddhacharita which records that Buddha was a descendant of the Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty - from the same lineage to which Rama belonged millennia before him. An even older account of Buddha’s ancestral family tree is found in the Buddhist text Mahāvastu, a composite multi-life hagiography of the Buddha (2nd c. BCE) which details how the sons of Ikshvaku built Kapilavastu and were the forefathers of the Shakyas - the clan of the Buddha.
Claim #3: In fact, Buddha lived long before the Valmiki Ramayana was compiled.
Fact: False. We already know that Rama lived many millennia before Buddha from irrefutable evidence in the Ramayana itself & many other Hindu texts.Authoritative Buddhist texts like Mahavamsa also clearly record the Shakya clan as part of Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty with the line of succession from Rishi Sagara to Dasharatha & Rama who lived many generations before Suddhodana (Buddha’s father). Moreover Princeton historian, Robert Goldman's comprehensive comparative analysis of the Ramayana proves that the descriptions of history & geography of Kosala in the Ramayana clearly reflect an era BEFORE the Buddha thus dating it prior to 5th c. BCE (time of Buddha) even by Western standards. His work is considered the most comprehensive & authoritative Western analysis of Ramayana’s historicity. As mentioned before the Buddhacharita also testifies to Valmiki already being revered as the ancient Adi Kavi during Buddha's era.
Kamal Khan explaining Mughal history is like a chihuahua barking - ear-splittingly irritating, wildly off-key, but you can’t help but watch the spectacle.
Of course the Mughals didn't "harm any community", they just built Minars out of Kafir skulls to show how much they cared for all communities and considered all Indians equal.
These "loving community building" exercises started with Timur's first entry into Hindustan, when he attacked the Hindu kingdom of Kator extending from Kashmir to Kabul. In his autobiography “Tuzak-I-Timuri” Timur describes building tall towers of skulls of “obstinate unbelievers” after raping & enslaving women & kids & plundering towns to dust (May, 1398 CE). The Zafarnama of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi (Iran, 1425 CE) has a painting which shows how Timur took tribute from soldiers, while an Islamic Minar built out of dead Kafir’s heads looms behind him.
His Mughal descendants like Babur, Akbar, Shah Jahan kept up this grand tradition and built their own towers of Kafir skulls to show their caring loving hearts.
Read the full thread to know more.🧵
The next Mughal, Babur, practically salivated with delight at the prospect of killing Hindus & scattering them like “teased wool & broken bubbles on wine”. He built several Minars out of Hindu heads, during battles in the Doab, near Agra & Chanderi to name a few. So overjoyed was Babur with his bloody crimes that he waxed eloquent poetry about killing Kafirs in praise of God. After creating Minars out of their heads, he proudly declared himself a “Ghazi” as his official imperial title - a term which means “Victorious over the enemies of Islam”
You mention Birbal from the court of the Great “secular” Akbar, who occupied Delhi & Agra in true Mughal tradition by building towers of Hindu heads. He did the same in his conquest of Ahmedabad. He rewarded his commander Khan-i-Khanan (Bairam Khan), for building “8 sky high Minarets of Hindu heads” in Bengal. A painting in the illustrated Akbarnama shows Akbar at the 2nd battle of Panipat, in 1556 CE, where Bairam Khan & Akbar colluded to treacherously behead Hemu. It depicts “Ghazi” Akbar & his army stacking up heads of Hemu's soldiers into a tower/Minar of victory over Islam’s enemies.
Niccolao Manucci an Italian doctor who worked in Shah Jahan's Mughal court described his "lovin'" ways in his memoirs. He revealed that lover boy Shah Jahan shared his bed with 1000s of women besides Mumtaz, many of whom were his own courtier's wives!
Read to the end 🧵
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Shah Jahan's courtiers Ja'far Khan & Khalil Khan's wives were his favorites. Ja'far Khan's wife was called Shah Jahan's "breakfast" & Khalil Khan's wife his "lunch". Ja'far's wife was Shah Jahan's sister-in-law & Khali's wife was his niece through marriage to Mumtaz. Ja'far's wife had to beg for her husband's life
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Asaf Khan was Mumtaz Mahal's father. Ja'far Khan was Mumtaz's aunt's son & his wife was her sister-in-law, while Khalil Khan was married to Asaf Khan's granddaughter who was Mumtaz's niece. One can imagine how much love Shah Jahan had for Mumtaz that he molested her own family.
As requested by some of you, I have compiled all the 9 + 1 digital images of Devi Ma which I created for Navaratri along with their descriptions for easy reference. You may use the images as you wish, provided you retain my watermark, treat Devi's image with respect and don't distort the images. Enjoy. 🙏
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वन्दे वाञ्छितलाभाय चन्द्रार्ध कृतशेखराम् ।
वृषारूढाम् शूलधराम् शैलपुत्रीम् यशस्विनीम् ॥
Day 1 of Sharadiya Navaratri is ruled by Devi Shailaputri, daughter of the Mountain lord, the pure, serene one who blesses devotees with self-restraint, patience, victory over difficulties & peace of mind.
वन्दे वाञ्छितलाभाय चन्द्रार्धकृतशेखराम्।
जपमाला कमण्डलु धरा ब्रह्मचारिणी शुभाम्॥
Day 2 of Sharadiya Navaratri is ruled by Devi Brahmacharini, the epitome of penance, who blesses devotees with purity, freedom from all disturbances and the radiance of wisdom attained by Tapas.
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Hidden deep inside the recesses of the Chhota Sona mosque located in Chapai Nawabganj district of Bangladesh, lie four walled up ancient Murtis of our Hindu divinities Varaha, Bhawani, Brahmani and Shivani. No one knows how ancient they are - likely more than a thousand years old. They are silent witnesses to the desecration of a grand ancient Hindu temple razed over and brutally reused to “build” the mosque. The location is in what used to be the Bengali kingdom of Gaur invaded by Bakhtiyar Khalji in the 13th ce. The advent of Islam after Khalji marked the beginning of a cultural holocaust of Bihar & Bengal where innumerable temples were razed, their broken portions brutally usurped to create incongruous “mosques” as markers of conquering Islamic fanaticism.
In 1786, a British amateur explorer Henry Creighton visited the ruins of Gaur & made drawings to document them. In 1817, his description & drawings were published in a short book “The ruins of Gour described and represented in eighteen views”. He described the Chhoti Sona mosque as one of the most beautiful monuments in the area & ascribed its construction in the 15th c. to Wali Muhammad under the reign of Allauddin Husain Shah. It is within the walls of the interior mosque that Creighton discovered these grand Murtis carved on large blocks of stone. Islamic decorations were deliberately carved on the reverse side of the Murti stones. The stones were purposely placed with the Murti facing inwards, blocked forever into the walls, never to be seen again.
Creighton’s drawings show a grand Varaha carving which closely resembles an awe inspiring Varaha Murti from Pala dynasty in 9th century CE., excavated from Nadiya, West Bengal - now on display at National Museum New Delhi. The stylistic rendering of the Varaha sculpture indicates that the temple destroyed to build the Chhota Sona mosque was likely from the same era of 9th c. CE.
Two other drawings of hidden Murtis embedded within the walls of the chhota sona mosque are labelled as that of the Devi consorts of the gods, Brahmani & Bhawani. Creighton's drawing of Brahmani also closely resembles another 9th c. Pala era sculpture of Brahmani. He also describes the image as Shiva in the form of Bhawani. It is an unusual & interesting depiction showing the deity riding atop a lion which is crushing a demon that is supported by an elephant. Creighton observed that the Murtis still had traces of being gilded with gold just like the roof of the structure, which is what gave the mosque the name of chhota sona mosque. The gilded golden roof must have made the temple an extremely attractive target for destruction to the Islamic attackers.
The last image which Creighton documents is labelled Shivani by him, although it does not look like a typical depiction of Shivani. It appears more likely to be some form of Brahma as the iconography depicts the Vedas & a Mala, while the deity with a fairly rotund belly is seated on a lotus.
Today the chhoto sona mosque is a major tourist attraction in Bangladesh & photographs on the internet still reveal remnants of its Hindu past through stray glimpses of Hindu motifs like kalash, & niches where Hindu murtis were chiseled out. Of course this means we will never be able to unearth, photograph, or see those grand ancient Murtis or remnants of the desecrated temple that it was built upon ever again. We will never even know how ancient it was or the full story of that sacred space.
As promised here is my graphic novel for inspiring Hindu readers of all ages. I dedicate my first creation to the fearless unnamed Hindu hero who avenged Somnath & taught Mahmud Ghazni a lesson he would never forget. This story is based on actual historical events. References from Islamic texts are provided at end of thread. Please read entire thread for whole story. Future comics will be available for purchase at a website to be announced soon.
All images & text for this graphic novel were created by me @mumukshusavitri & should not be reproduced without permission.