All the wars by Indian Muslim rulers had nothing to do with Islam or Muslims and only were battles for a tussle for power and throne where lakhs of Muslim soldiers were killed
Babur was born in Andijan (today’s Uzbekistan) in Central Asia and was a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur. It was his dream to establish a massive Sultanate leading to his first attack on Muslim rulers of Central Asia. Babur had defeated the Muslim armies of Samarkand and Fergana before attacking India.
With the help of Iran’s emperor Ismail Safavi, he captured Turkistan and Shibanyan (today’s Kazakhstan) and killed the Muslim rulers there. However, he lost Samarkand (there are norecords of the number of Muslims Babur killed in these battles) but despite the defeat in Samarkand, Babur had made a plan to uproot the Lodhi rule in India. One can observe the craftiness of Babur that while he was attacking the Muslim ruler of the Lodhi dynasty, he was asking to recruit soldierspretending he was going to do jihad against the infidels.
Many people believed that Babur was instigated by the ruler of Mewar, Rana Sangram Singh (RanaSanga) to attack IbrahimLodhi. Definitely, this war had nothing to do with Islam. When Babur attacked India, the Lodhi dynasty had weakened considerably and crossed Sindh and Punjab and came to Panipat near Delhi. Lodhi countered Babur’s attack with a large army, but Babur’s army had strongartillery, which could not compete with Ibrahim Lodhi’s Indian army andin this war more than one lakh Muslims sacrificed their lives fighting against Babur.
Babar was heavily criticized and some people to give a communal color to the war report thatBabur killed lakhs of Hindus, whereas history says that from Central Asia to India, Babur shed the blood of lakhs of Muslims.
The Mughal Rule
After the end of the Lodhi dynasty in the hands of Babur, India was ruled by the Mughals in 1526, which lasted in one way or another till 1857. After Babur, his son Humayun sat on the throne, but he was overthrown by a Muslim fighter Sher Shah Suri and forced to leave the country.
Sher Shah Suri made Sasaram (Bihar) his capital. He was the first to build the road from Kolkata to Kabul. He introduced a currency called Rupee, but he was also far ahead in destroying the cities and forts built by the rulers before him. Sher Shah Suri defeated the Mughal army in the battle near Kanauj in 1540 AD, after which Humayun had to flee to Iran to save his life and lived as a fugitive there for 15 years. Later, he joined the Suri dynasty with the help of Shah TmaspSafavi of Iran. After finishing it, in 1555 AD, he could sit on the throne of Babur again.
None of the wars had religious connections
All these wars had nothing to do with Islam or Muslims and only were battles for a tussle for power and throne where lakhs of Muslim soldiers were killed.
Humayun died in 1556 after falling from the steps of the library in an old fort.
The Tomb of a Mughal emperor and the Tomb of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
Those who accuse the emperors of levies of Muslims should take a trip to theMathura Road in Delhi. On the left side of this road is the tomb of a Mughal emperor and on the right bank of the same road is the tomb of a Pir, which the world remembers as Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. You will note a huge difference between both the tombs, tourists visit with tickets to see the beauty of a tomb, but never put even a flower on the tomb of the emperor where flowersare customarily laid, while on the other side of the road every day hundreds of sheets of flowers are offered at the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin. Thousands of people come to bow their heads and you will find an astonishing mix of Hindus as well as Sikhs as well as Christians as well as Muslims in the crowds.
While no Muslim goes to pay homage to the tomb of a king and there is a crowd of Muslims at the tomb of a spiritualPirwho wisely teaches to love humans. This powerful difference in ideology strikes a deep line of contrast between the mentality of those who term Indian Muslims as the sons of conquering cruel Babur and the actual Muslims who are taught love and humanity.
In Humayun’s War, Muslim Soldiers Shed Blood, Not Hindus
Once again, it has to be recalled that when Humayun attacked India and assumed power again, the blood of Muslim soldiers were shed fighting for the Suri dynasty, and he did not kill Hindus because onlya Muslim army was in front of him.
This once again validates the fact that none of these battles was a fight between Hindus and Muslims, but a war for powerand rule.
In the next section we will talk about Akbar.
(To be continued)