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I was standing at Dadar Station when my attention
went towards a Sikh
youth standing near me wearing a Black turban having a
long beard and
wearing a Kirpan over his shirt looking similar to a
terrorist
(According
to the definition of the Central Government of India,
1980's). After a
while, one local train arrived, which was totally
packed.
The Sikh youth tried to board the train but failed to
do so.
Just then, a teasing voice was heard from the back
coach, "SARDAR JI
BARAH
BAJ GAYE" (Sir, it is 12 o'clock!). The young Sikh
youth looked at the
voice maker who was a young mischievous type of
person.
Instead of showing any anger, the Sikh smiled
pleasantly at him.
The smile was puzzling and it seemed some sort of
truth lies behind it.
Not able to resist my temptation, I walked towards him
and asked why
did he
smile back at the person who is tormenting him.
The Sikh youth replied, 'He was not teasing me but was
"ASKING FOR MY
HELP". I was surprised with his reply, and he informed
me that there is
an
important history behind that remark of - 12 o'clock,
which one should
know.
I was eager to learn and the Sikh youth Narrated:
During the 17th
Century,
when Mughals ruled India, the Hindu people were
humiliated and treated
like
animals.
The Mughals treated the Hindu women as their personal
property and were
forcing Hindus to accept Islam and even used to kill
the people if they
refused to do so.
At the time, our ninth Guru, Sri Guru Teg Bhadar Ji
came forward, in
response to requests by Kashmiri Pandits to fight
against these cruel
activities. Guru Ji informed the Mughal emperor that
if he succeeded in
converting him to Islam, then all Hindus would accept
the same fate,
but
should he fail to do so, he should stop all these
activities.
The Mughal emperor happily agreed to this, even after
unmentionable
evil
torture to Guru Ji and their followers, the emperor
failed to convert
them
to Islam. As the Mughals were unsuccessful in
converting them, Guru Ji
along with four of his followers were wickedly
tortured and
assassinated at
Chandni Chowk, Delhi, where now stands the 'SHEESH
GANJ GURUDWARA'
(They
were put on a metal plate, with sand and firewood
burning under it, the
hot
sand was then poured over their head). They sacrificed
their life for
the
cause, but did not convert. Thus, Guru Ji sacrificed
his life for the
protection of the Hindu people.
But, for the sake of whom Guru Ji had sacrificed their
life, none of
them
came forward to claim his body, fearing that they too
would be
assassinated.
Can anybody lay down his life and that too for the
protection of
another
religion? This is the reason they are still remembered
as "Hind Ki
Chaddar", (Shield of India.) Seeing this incident our
tenth Guru Ji,
Sri
Guru Gobind Singh Ji (Son of Guru Teg Bahadar Ji),
founder of Khalsa,
made
a resolution that he would convert his followers to
Lions, create such
fearless human beings, who would not hide themselves
and could be
easily
located in thousands, hence the relevance of the beard
and turban, so
that
they would face the enemy like men (presence of
beard). Whereas it was
observed that when the Mughals would attack villages
and kill Hindu
men, to
eliminate the Hindu religion from the face of the
earth. Whereas,
instead
of fighting back, the parents would put earrings on
male babies, so
they
wouldn't be identified as male. We see old aged people
still carrying
on
this tradition.
Sikhs were very few in number and were greatly
outnumbered as they
fought
the Mughal armies that had ten's of thousands of
soldiers. At that
time,
Nadir Shah raided Delhi in the year 1739 and looted
India. He carried
many
treasures and enslaved nearly 2,200 Hindu women along
with him. The
news
spread like fire and was heard by Sardar Jassa Singh
who was the
Commander
of the Sikh army at that time. He decided to attack
Nadir Shah's Kafila
at
midnight on the same day. He did so and rescued the
Hindu women who
were
safely sent back to their homes.
This not only happened once but regularly, and
whenever any Abdaalis or
Iranis attacked India, looting treasures and Hindu
women for sale in
Abdal
markets, the Sikh army Lion Hearted braves although
few in numbers
would
attack them at midnight, 12 o'clock and rescued the
Hindu women (so
they
are caught unaware).
Although the Mughals kidnapped Hindu and even Sikh
women, no Muslim
women
were harmed by the Sikh army. After that time when
similar incidences
occurred, people started to
contact the Sikh army for their help and Sikhs used to
attack the
raiders
at Midnight, 12 o'clock. When the raiders would be
attacked, to raise
the
threat, they would yell 'Barah Baj Gaye' ? the Sikhs
are attacking.
This
continued and became a known fact that at midnight,
nearly at 12
o'clock,
it is very difficult to fight against Sikhs as the
Sikhs get some Extra
Power to save Religion, Nation and Humanity. Nobody
can fight and win
against them at midnight, no matter what the odds. In
1799, amazingly,
again even though the Sikh army was greatly
outnumbered, Lahore was
taken
over by the Sikh commander Ranjit Singh and with that,
an end to the
Mughal
tyranny over India. Under his rule, there was
prosperity and peace
amongst
Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims.
The enemies, who were then afraid of Sikhs, have
spread the words that
at
12 O'clock, the Sikhs go out of their senses. We
always hear that Sikhs
are
hot tempered and violent but the truth is they have
the genes of
warriors
and they spent centuries fighting for not only their
own religion but
other
religions as well.
If it were not for the Sikhs, today India would be a
country belonging
to
the Arab world. The Pakistani and Middle Eastern
writers have confirmed
this in their writings.
Me being a Hindu, I realized that Sikhs are born
warriors, and true
Sikhs
are out to help others and they are very patriotic to
Humanity and
their
Land. The Sikhs today, are still the Steel Barrier in
the Indian
Military
build up, no one can argue that. We see their faces in
all frontline
postings as the MIGHT of Indian defense. But, what are
we all doing to
these great Saints and Soldiers?
Why are many modern Indian's forgetting the legacy
left by ancestral
Sikhs?
so the one whose mother or sister is in trouble calls
a sardarji and
tells
him "sardarji barah baj gaye.meri maa bhen ki rksha
karo.mein naa mard
hoon"