Part
I: Chapter 13
MIR
ALI HAMDANI'S ADVICE TO SULTAN SIKANDAR: AN
ATROCIOUS FALSEHOOD
As
a bare fact of history, it is not unknown that Mir Mohammad Hamadani as
a formidable proselytiser was squarely responsible for the blatant use
of force and sword against the Hindu masses of Kashmir. The pages of history
are teeming with the brutalities and savageries inflicted on them only
to coerce them to accept Islam. Sultan Sikandar proved their great tormentor
and the Hindus ran helter and skelter to safer zones and as per the living
memory of Kashmiri Pandits only eleven families stayed back and rest of
them were either brutally massacred or converted to Islam. Mir Mohammad
not only instigated Sultan Sikandar for the war waged against the Hindus,
but is also said to have quoted scriptures that the Hindu Kafirs were enemies
of Islam and could not be granted protection as Zhimmis and yet, to Bamzai,
he is a sufi saint, who looked upon the policy of his mentor with disfavour
and disapproval.
In his zeal
for being a Muslim apologist, he goes on to add that "Mir Ali Hamadani,
the great sub Sayyid, would not look with equanimity on this show of brute
force against the Brahmans (Hindus of Kashmir) and advised Sultan Sikandar
to desist from this un-Islamic practice. The Brahmans were allowed to pursue
their religion and occupation on payment of poll-tax or Jaziya."
Be it said
that what Bamzai has recorded is a sheer distortion of and violence on
facts of history. Mir Ali Hamadani as per authentic records had died in
1385 A.D. and was laid to rest at Khatlan and according to Bamzai, Sultan
Sikandar came to the throne of Kashmir exactly in 1389 A.D., that is four
years after Mir Ali's demise. As per hard facts, Mir Mohammad arrived in
Kashmir in 796/ 1393 and soon after Sultan Sikandar was regimented into
bigotry and embarked upon the extirpation of infidelity from the belts
of Kashmir. How Sultan Sikandar was asked and advised to stop his genocidal
war against the Hindus after Mir Ali's demise by Mir Ali himself is understandable
to Bamzai alone.
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