One of these Islamic scourges, who descended on Hindusthan like a plague toward the close of the 14th century, was the congenital monster, Tamerlain alias Taimurlang alias Timur, the lame. It is from this brute of a Timur that the rapacious Moghuls, the last link in the Muslim dynastic relay that plagued India, descended on one side.
The weird dance of this Muslim devil on the stage of Hindusthan had its appropriate setting of a decade of utter confusion. Firozshah Tughlak, who has been fraudulently painted as a veritable angel, scholar, inventor, savior and what not, had died in 1388 A.D. His inventive genius may be gauged from his ingenious recipe of liberally mixing the fragments of the broken stone idols of the Hindu temple of Jwalamukhi in Nagarkot with the beef of freshly slaughtered temple cows and hanging this mixture in nosebags round the necks of Brahmins and forcing them to eat it.
Firoz's son Mohammed Tughlak II remained on the throne from 1390 to 1394 A.D. Throughout his reign brave Rajputs and Muslim fief holders challenged his authority. The disillusioned sultan in impotent rage ordered the wholesale massacre of thousands of Hindus whom his father had already reduced to serfdom. The deed justified his parentage. Logic defines man as a rational animal. But both Mohammed Tughlak II and his father Firozshah Tughlak lacked the rationality of a human being, never mind what the mentally handicapped historians of India say about them. To call sadists like Mohammed Tughlak II and his father as noble is intellectual perversion, and most Indian historians, bribed by the GoI, play the game.
Mohammed died in 1394 A.D. His son Humayun alias Sikandar succeeded him. He died in suspicious circumstances even before the end of 1394 A.D. He was succeeded by another Mohammed. Dissensions and revolts had now reached their peak. Bengal, Lahore, the rest of the Punjab, Gujarat, Malwa and other regions broke off from the Delhi sultanate and became independent. The matter became so ridiculous that at one point while Mohammed held court at Delhi, his cousin Nusrat Shah set up a sultanate of his own in another part of the same city of Delhi.
It was during such a chaos that Timur descended on Hindusthan like plague in 1398 A.D. He devastated north India with his depredations, leaving behind him a litter of neo-converts, burnt farmsteads, slaughtered cows, ravaged temples turned into tombs and mosques and mangled bodies. This self-styled recruiting agent for Islam, terrorized a great number of Hindus into Islam.
Timur was a Turk born in a Muslim family which held the fief of the Kusha region. He was born on April 9, 1336 A.D. in Kusha town. The name of this town was derived from the name of Shri Rama's second son, Kusha. There is some controversy on Timur's ancestry. Some claim that Timur's father was a descendant of the rapacious Chengiz Khan while others maintain that Timur's father was a poor shepherd, who eventually blossomed into a capable man- slaughterer. Timur's father's name was Amir Turghai. His mother was Takina Khatoon. Timur showed great promise since childhood and blossomed into a champion killer, who outdid even his father on many instances. Timur became the ruler of Turkistan at the early age of 25. However, deeply hated he had to flee the kingdom and seek shelter in the forests of the Middle East. In 1369 A.D. Timur conquered Samarkand and proclaimed himself king.
With his newly acquired royal status, Timur launched a treacherous attack on Amir Hussain, the king of Khorasan, slew him and had himself proclaimed as the king of Balkh in 1390 A.D. Balkh is the corrupt form of the Sanskrit word Valhika. The name of this country is mentioned in ancient Indian scriptures. The Sanskrit inscription on the famous iron pillar (wrongly called the Kutub Minar) in Delhi, describes how an ancient Indian king had conquered the Valhika region. Muslims have deliberately obliterated records of Hindu rule over ancient Afghanistan, Turkey, Khorasan, Balkh, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The ancient scripts of Arabia and Turkey were based on Sanskrit phonetics and lettering before being replaced by the worm-like and unscientific Arabic script.
In his 69-year-long life, Timur conducted 35 major campaigns and terrorized a region extending from Haridwar in the east to Cairo in the west. One after the other, he subdued Kandahar, Iran and Iraq. Timur, like the prophet Mohammed was illiterate. His records were kept by sycophants. His memoirs are known as Malfuzat-i-Timuri or Tuzak-i-Timuri. There are many versions of chronicles on his reign. Sir H.M. Elliot collectively calls them "an impudent and interested fraud."
Sharfuddin Yazdi, the author of Zafarnama (Book of Victory), describes the way in which a record of events of Timur's reign was kept at his court to establish the veracity of his work; Zafarnama was written some 30 years after Timur's death.
Yazdi tells us that the accounts written by the many hangers-on and sycophants at court were "brought into the royal presence and were read to the emperor, so as to insure confidence by the impress of his approval." The reader need not be told that Timur, who could murder hundreds of thousands of human beings throughout his life, could as easily murder truth. His so called memoirs are a blatant concoction and therefore must be very cautiously studied.
Sir H.M. Elliot observes: "The events recorded and their succession in Malfuzat and Zafarnama, are identical and leave no doubt that Yazdi translated or wrote over again in an ornate style that history which had been compiled under Timur's direction. As an example of the wishful thinking that has gone in the compilation of these chronicles may be mentioned the attempt to prove that Timur was a Sunni although there is the strongest evidence that he was a very bigoted Shia." (Pg. 393, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson)
Having swallowed a large part of west Asia, "there arose in my heart", says Timur, "the desire to lead an expedition against the infidels and become a ghazi; for I had heard that a slayer of infidels is a ghazi. But I was undetermined in my mind whether I should proceed against the infidels of China or the infidels of India. In this I sought an omen from the Koran and the verse I opened said: 'O Prophet, make war upon infidels and unbelievers and treat them with severity.'" Timur's son Mohammed Sultan alias Shah Rukh gives out the thievery motive when he told Timur: "Hindusthan is full of gold and jewels."
Timur called his gang leaders and henchmen and told them: "My object in the invasion of Hindusthan is to lead an expedition against the infidels that, according to the law of Mohammed we may convert to Islam the people of that country and purify that land from the filth of infidelity and that we may overthrow their temples and idols and become ghazis and mujahids." (Pg. 397 ibid).
Timur, like all Muslim conquerors and marauders in India has honestly stated his purpose to be thievery and slaughter and forced conversion of Hindus to Islam through terror. He gathered a huge army of killers and proceeded toward India. He started from Samarkand in the year of 1398 A.D.
He crossed the Indus near Katak on September 24, 1398 and massacred all the residents of Tulumb. He appropriated all their wealth and provisions. A part of the wealth went to Mecca for the upkeep of the destitutes there.
The ruler of Kashmir was frightened. He made an abject peace with Timur. He allowed Timur to seize peacefully whatever he wanted. Timur then proceeded to a city he called Shahnawaz (when there could be no such city in Hindusthan with that Muslim name!). There Timur looted all the grain in that great agricultural center, retained as much he could carry and burnt the rest so that the escapees from his massacre had no food left for sustenance. Men were killed, women and children carried away for sale abroad or cut to pieces.
Timur then proceeded toward Delhi by way of Fatehabad, Rajpur, Multan, Bhatnir, Dipalpur, Sarsuti, Ahruni, Kaithal, Samana and Panipat. In every city Timur perpetrated his typical atrocities. In most places, the Hindu residents had to burn their wives and children and then fight to the last man and die.
Never in human history has any creed or dogma inflicted such agony, misery, havoc, bestiality, rape, mayhem, blinding, branding, sodomy and manslaughter as Islam.
Of his march on Delhi Timur tells us in his memoirs called Malfuzat-i-Timuri, "I dispatched the baggage from Tehana; I marched into the jungles and wilds and slew 2,000 jats. I made their wives and children captives and plundered their cattle and property...The people of Samana, Kaithal and Aspandi were all heretics, idolators, infidels and misbelievers (who setting) fire to their houses had fled with their children and property toward Delhi, so that the whole country was deserted." Such was the Muslim plague that ravaged our country for a thousand years!
In deserted Panipat, Timur found ten thousand maunds of wheat stored in the fort. That fort has since been pulverized. His army encamped at a village Kanhigazin. "on the morrow," says Timur, "I ordered a plundering excursion against the palace of Jahannuma, a fine building on top of a hill by the banks of the Yamuna." Timur's detachments "plundered every village they came to, killed the men and carried away all valuables and cattle."
Timur then invested Leni Fort situated between the Yamuna and an ancient Rajput canal dug from that river and brought to a town called Ferozabad. Ascribing the canal to Firozshah is sheer thievery. "Many of the Rajputs placed their wives and children in their houses and burned them. Then they rushed to battle. Other men of the garrison fought and were slain and a great many were taken prisoners." (Pg. 433, Vol. III, Elliot & Dowson)
"Before my final assault on Delhi," says Timur, "it was brought to my notice from the time of entering Hindusthan up to the present time, we had taken more than 100,000 Hindu prisoners. They were all in my camp. I asked my courtiers for advice about the prisoners, and they said that on the great day of battle these 100,000 prisoners could not be left with the baggage. It would be entirely opposed to the rules of war to set these idolators and foes of Islam at liberty. I found these words in accordance with the rules of war, and I directly gave my command for the Tawachis to proclaim throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners was to put them to death and whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property given to the informant. When this order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death. Maulana Naasiruddin Umar, a counselor and man of learning, who, in all his life had never killed a sparrow, now, in execution of my order, slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus who were his captives." (Pg. 436, ibid). {And to think that Indira Gandhi, wife of Feroz Khan who later changed his name to Gandhi by an affidavit at the advice of the apostle of truth the older Gandhi, let go the 93,000 Pakistani marauders who had killed some 3 million Hindus of East Bengal and raped some 300,000 Hindu women; the act is even more preposterous when one discovers that all the Indian soldiers captured on the western front by Pakistan were murdered in captivity in contravention of the Geneva Convention! It must be mentioned here also that in the transportation of these nearly 100,000 Pakistani ruffians, who could not fight but fornicate, who could not face the enemy but flee, Catholic Bandarnaike's Sri Lanka had lent a hand. So had Turkey and Iran, by lending planes to Pakistan; but Indira Gandhi would not even lift a finger! A real Mussalmani could not do better!- Publisher}
This ghastly murder of Hindus before Timur's final battle for Delhi is a thing to remember and observe every year.
Mohammed Tughlak was then ruling Delhi. Timur's army encamped across the river Jumna and menaced the countryside. Skirmishes took place nearly every day. On 17th December, 1398 A.D. Timur's armies entered Delhi after finally defeating Mohammed Tughlak who ran out of one gate of Delhi while his commander Mallu Khan, ran out through another.
Timur celebrated his victory by holding a lavish court at which captive women were distributed for sexual gratification to drunken Muslim hoodlums. Christmas was approaching and Timur decided to celebrate it in right royal manner. A grandiose massacre seemed to be called for. The reasons which Timur gives (Pg. 445, ibid) as having led to that massacre are:
Timur gives graphic description (Pp. 446-447) of the ghastly scene that followed his high-handedness. "When the soldiers proceeded to apprehend the Hindus and gabrs, many drew their swords. The flames of strife were thus lit and spread through the whole city from Jahanpanah and Siri to Old Delhi, burning up all it touched. The savage Turks fell to killing and plundering. The Hindus set fire to their houses, burned their wives and children in them, rushed into the fight and were killed. The Hindus and gabrs showed much alacrity and boldness in fighting. On Thursday and all the night before Friday, nearly 15,000 Turks were engaged in slaying, plundering and destroying. When morning broke out on Friday, all my army, no longer under control, went off to the city and thought of nothing but killing, plundering and making prisoners. All that day, the sack was general (because that was a holy Muslim day to celebrate and what could be a greater celebration than slashing throats of infidels?). The following day, a Saturday, all passed in the same way and the spoil was so great that each man secured from 50 to 100 prisoners, men, women and children (and of course all their ornaments, bullion, gems and other jewelry). The other booty was immense in rubies, diamonds. garnets, pearls, gold and silver, ashrafis, tankas of gold and silver, vessels of gold and silver, brocades and silks of great value. Gold and silver ornaments of Hindu women were obtained in such quantities as to exceed all account. Excepting the Muslim quarter, the whole city was sacked. On the following day, Sunday, it was brought to my knowledge that a great number of Hindus had assembled in the Masjid-i-Jami of Old Delhi, carrying with them arms and provisions, and were preparing to defend themselves. Some of my people who had gone that way on business were wounded by them. I immediately ordered Amir Shah Malik and Ali Sultan Tawachi to clear the house of Allah from infidels and idolators. They accordingly attacked these infidels and put them to death. Old Delhi was plundered."
This is a clear admission that Old Delhi and its so called Jama Masjid existed even 200 years before Shahjahan was born. How could Shahjahan then have built the Old Delhi in his life time? Timur also tells us unwittingly that the so called Jama Masjid was a Hindu temple; that is why the Hindus had collected there. They were not there to protect the precincts of a mosque! None of these structures were built by the Muslims, never mind how many times the idiotic historians of India repeat the falsehood!
Now follows another Muslim confession. The Muslims were ignorant of the building art. The massive and magnificent Hindu forts, palaces, temples and river ghats evoked wide-eyed wonder from the barbarous Muslim invaders. "I had determined to build a Masjid-i-Jami in Samarkand which should be without a rival in any country. So I ordered all Hindu builders and stone masons, artisans and clever mechanics, who were masters of their respective crafts, should be picked out from among the prisoners and set aside, and accordingly thousands of craftsmen were selected."
Timur, like Mohammed Ghazni has, thus, left for us a clear record that far from Muslims designing and building forts, palaces, mosques and tombs in India, it was Hindu craftsmen and designers who had built all medieval monuments in Muslim lands from Afghanistan to Arabia. Thus, while there is no Muslim architecture in India, Hindu architecture traveled all over the Muslim lands. This necessitates immediate amendment of all Indian textbooks where they wax eloquent on the mythical 'Indo-Saracenic architecture'.
After the three cities (Siri, Jahanpanah and Old Delhi) had been so thoroughly plundered that "my mind was no longer occupied with the destruction of the people of Delhi," says Timur, "I took a ride round the cities. Siri is a round city. Its buildings are lofty. They are surrounded by fortifications, built of stone and bricks. Old Delhi also has a similar strong fort but it is larger than that of Siri. From Siri to Old Delhi, which is a considerable distance, runs a strong wall. Jahanpanah is situated in the midst of the inhabited city. The three cities have 30 gates, Jahanpanah has 13,Siri has 7; Old Delhi has 10."
Timur was in Delhi for 15 days which he "passed in pleasure and enjoyment holding court and giving grand feast," and of course slaughtering Hindus which is enjoined by the Koran. Mohammed Tughlak was in hiding all this time.
Seeing that there were no more Hindus to slaughter, Timur tells us, "I again drew my sword" to massacre Hindus in other parts of Hindusthan, seize their children and loot their wealth.
The real reason for Timur's abrupt abandoning of Delhi is that the people around Baghdad were up in arms against his henchmen there. On his way back Timur raided Baghpat, Meerut, Haridwar, Jammu, Nagarkot and many other important towns slaughtering almost all Hindu residents, raping their women, converting their small children by slicing off their foreskins. The wounded Raja of Jammu was on pain of torture forced to become a Mussalman. A cow was killed and he was forced to eat its flesh in company with other Muslim hoodlums. "When he had thus been received in the Muslim fold I ordered my surgeons to attend to his wounds." (Pg. 472)
Innumerable such Hindu Rajas and their subjects taken prisoner and bleeding from their wounds were in their physical agony tortured by the Muslims to augment the number of Muslims in the world. Timur took back with him immense wealth, murdered a huge number of Hindus, maimed and humiliated even a greater number. He was 63 years old at the time. On arrival in Baghdad he put down the revolt toward the end of February, 1399 A.D. He then planned to overrun Buddhist China. But Allah wanted not and Timur breathed his last on February 18, 1405 A.D.
A few words on Timur's chronicles. Sir H.M. Elliot points out that in both Abu Talib's and Muhammad Afzal's manuscripts "Timur is made to record his own death". Muhammad Afzal, the later writer, makes Timur say, "I arrived at the village of Atrar and died", but Abu Talib is more specific. In his chronicle Timur says: "At night calling upon the name of Allah I lost my senses and resigned my pure soul to the Almighty" (Pg. 394)
While having its comic side, this little detail of how Timur is made to say that he lost consciousness and died, vindicates Sir H.M. Elliot's appraisal that Muslim chronicles are "an impudent and interested fraud."
Prior to his death Timur had, in 1402 A.D. on a request from Greece insultingly ordered the Turkish emperor, Bayazid, to lift the siege of Constantinople. Enraged by this impertinence, Bayazid fell on Timur. But in the battle that ensued at Frijia in July 1402 A.D., Bayazid's army was routed. Bayazid was taken prisoner. He was put in fetters and confined to an iron cage like an animal. After this victory, Timur overran Egypt and massacred the people there and plundered their wealth.
Timur's beastly reign lasted for 36 years. He lies buried in Samarkand in an ancient Hindu palace. Inside his tomb on a wall is the royal emblem of the rising sun and a rampant lion. This figure is still known by its Sanskrit name mispronounced as 'Soor-Sadul'. The original Sanskrit phrase is Soorya-Shardul meaning 'the Sun and the Lion'. The local people, ignorant of Sanskrit confess their ignorance of the term though they mechanically and unintelligibly repeat its name as Soor-Sadul.
The Maharashtriya Jnankosh observes (P.T, 172, Vol. 15, Edition 1925) that in whichever town Timur stopped he used to sternly order the residents to surrender all their property. He then used to have them collected at a central place. From amongst them, he used to have skilled workmen, artisans and designers segregated. The rest he used to massacre and erect piles of their severed heads. This honorable and time-worn Islamic practice was faithfully emulated by Timur's descendant Akbar nearly 150 years later.