Can you imagine relation between Mathura and Islamabad?
Hindu Human Rights
Can you imagine relation between Mathura and Islamabad?
From “Hindu Masjids” written by Praful Goradia
Repeated destruction of Mathura.
The richly jeweled idols taken from the pagan temples were transferred to Agra and there placed beneath the steps leading to the Nawab Begum Sahib’s mosque, in order that they might ever be pressed under foot by the true believers. The city’s name was changed to Islamabad. Can you guess the name of this unfortunate place? We can tell who published those words. He was Vincent A. Smith ICE, the famous historian.
If you cannot guess, it was Mathura, the birth place of Sri Krishna. Most of the idols were from the just destroyed Kesava Deva Mandir, built at the spot where the popular avatar was believed to have been born some 3,400 years ago. If Mohmud Ghazni was a jaahil or a barbarian, one might have been inclined to overlook his outrage and excuse him. But both AL-Beruni and Utbi, who were chroniclers and lived in Ghazni’s times, certified that Mahmud was devout and built beautiful mosques in his Ghazna. For the author it is difficult to do unto others what he would dislike others doing unto him. It is not easy a conscience to live with double standards. The author is not a regular worshipper and yet he can appreciate what puja, prayer or ibadat means to others. He would hate to disturb them. So much for sentiment. Beyond that of course is the Hindu in him which tells him that every karma leads to bhagya, every deed goes to shape destiny. Every action has a reaction, equal and opposite.
This reasoning must have been alien to Mahmud Ghazni in 1017 AD, although his forefathers must have been Hindu or Buddhist, or possibly, pagan (there was no Islam until the seventh century). Do you think that the misfortunes of the Afghan people, especially since the Soviet invasion in April 1978 are the Bhagya resulting from the karmas of isonoclasts like Mahmud? He was not the only blood thirsty invader. There were a series of them from Afghanistan. The last big vandal was Ahmed Shah Abdali of the 18th century. What was perpetrated at Mathura, is unthinkable in any context of civilization…
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