| Volume - IX |
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| Culture Course |
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AKBAR |
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Akbar was
deeply religious. He prayed four times a day. He slept sparingly and ate but once a day.
He progressively gave up meat although he continued to drink wine without however
becoming a sot.
In religious faith he was catholic. He held discussions with leaders of all religions and
sought to integrate all religions into a universal religion to which he gave the
name Din-ilahi, meaning Divine Religion, whose cosmopolitan character, however, did not
appeal even to his close associates. He endeared himself to non-Muslims by the revocation
of the discriminative Jazia tax.Man Sing, the Rajput
prince, was the trusted general of his army. These forward ideas did not catch, because
they were too early for the times. |
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