Guru Nanak Chamatkar (Part 2)-Bhai Vir Singh English ... - Vidhia.com

GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART - II
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 ofDelhi
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 brinhring 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 ofSaidpur closed the gates of
the fort and banned hriving 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 ofBabar'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 hrive their gold and jewelry that
they were wearing and all wealth that was in their houses. There r,emained no
safety oftheir 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 undeq,rround 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
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