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Two Muslim saints were executed by Muslim fanatics several hundred years ago. Aurangzeb was like a rabid dog. He executed great Hindu and Sikh saints. This is a story about a Sufi Muslim saint. His name was Sarmad.
He was a spiritual descendant of Mansur. Khalifa of Baghdad executed Mansur in 920 CE. The reason for this killing is that Mansur was going about the streets saying An- al – Haq (I am God= Aham Brahma Asmi in Upanishads).
Sarmad was his follower. After wandering about in search of God, in many countries of Asia, he came to Delhi in the days of Shahjahan and Aurangzeb. He was a Sufi saint and went about in the streets naked. God intoxicated he did not care whether he wore anything or not, shouting An -al- Haq like Mansur, from time to time.
Aurangzeb ordered him to be beheaded (circa 1690 CE). He went to his martyrdom with a sad smile of compassion on his face for those who ‘knowing no better’, slew him and song of triumph over Death on his lips, for instruction of future generations:
Long years have passed
since Mansur gave the world
his message ; and its holy influence
grows faint; I must revive it now, and give
fresh power to it with the help of these-
the headman’s binding ropes and block of wood!
Death gives a larger life to Sons of God
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Sarmad addressed the following quatrain to Aurangzeb, when the latter ordered him to death for going about nude in the streets of Delhi:
He who did place the dead weight of a crown
With kingship worries on thy sinful head
He gave to me the wealth of Poverty
Self-chosen free from all the cares of Wealth
He told the sinful ones to hide their shame
In many folds of clothing; but to those
Who have not sinned, He gave the beauteous dress
Of babies – Innocence of Nakedness.
Source book:-Essential Unity of All Religions, Bhagavan Das, Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan, 1932, (seventh edition 1990)
—subham—
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