The Lion king (Sher Shah Suri):
By Roman Khan.
Before to come to the main point of the of the topic of the lion king I have something to say and share :
The only one reason that I came up with the topic of the" lion king " sher shah suri is that to try to introduce and inform you about the great culture and history of the nation who have ruled their land independently across the history as well as times that ruled central Asia – Iran and India .
Very regretfully the nation now that is libeled and defamed by its strong enemies who great in power and have the power of media –economy –arms and politics first the Britishers – then Russians and now Americans and the nation that is specified as the warriors, terrorists, opium cultivators, killers and destroyers ,but to have a fair judgment we should not blame the very nature of this nation , we have other factors to blame that have been responsible for are imperialism –Arabism –plantation and exploitation that have been turning points in the adversity and backwardness of the nation pakhtun that Indians and the Balochi people call them pathan and the central Asians and Iranians have called Afghan. the great world powers as England and Russia invaded and campaigned the Afghans and called them a defamatory name accordingly, but were badly defeated and shamelessly returned their homes, but this time it is ridiculous with America and meanwhile dangerous terrorism –Osama the Arabic guest for the pakhtuns ,Taliban and terrorism an amazing "Arab American drama " there has been a good saying of my professor for the subject of world history in U.W.C college of America he said :
The problem with Afghanistan is that the Afghans made mistake that fought and campaigned the britishers and destroyed their army three times that made Britishers to prepare for a great revenge that first divided Afghans into two parts N.W.F.P or pashtunistan and Balochistan now in Pakistan and the other part Afghanistan –conspiracies and programs have been made to destroy the culture, language, history and reputation of Pakhtuns in the both sides in Pakistan by Pakistanis and in Afghanistan by their rivals at home that a man with mind and sense can better see and understand this reality No need for explanation .
And the professor added britishers found their great chance to inflict the pain and their revenge over the Afghans – when the Russians were repulsed and defeated the war that Afghans lost what they had, fighting the great super power of the world as Russia brought about the massacres and killing of the three million people, the full and destruction and ravage of the country and on the other hand no one would believe that the Muslim brother country Pakistan would turn around and stab the injured Afghanistan on the back by intervening and then training the most beautiful (ugly) gift of the history Taliban in religious camps of Islamabad, Karachi and Quetta that America paid dollars for it, that contained the Arab and Chichin and the terrorists from around the world and made every Afghan to wear this necklace of shame called terrorism the word that we don’t even know its meaning and doesn’t exist our language .
And so now a destitute nation now not even having clothe, shelter and food only a begging hand in the talons of England - America and Pakistan to give any kind of defamatory shape out of it and to anticipate whatever of their future and to introduce them to the world terrorists –cultureless –weak and against civilization the people whom England and America brought the holy democracy for and to show the world that Afghans were not the nation and people who put a stump of the shame on the face of the glory of the English empire in 19th century by defeating them three times that no one had carried out this from Australia to Alaska and from 2001 till the moment where ever this triangle " England American and Pakistan "see Pakhtun they bombard them in the name of the Taliban and terrorist, one should say me if this is not revenge then what is it ?
Prior to the invasion of Russia we had democracy in the long term kingdom of the last king and prior to him we had king Aman-ullah Khan who wanted to transform Afghanistan into a liberal and secular society but failed because of the factor Arabism the man who lived around hundred years ago in 1919 the time that no one had such a personality in Asia and personalities priory who are great part of our culture as prince Wazir Akbar Khan who was responsible for the destruction of the English army and did not let a single English soldier to return from Afghanistan, we had Malalai the young girl in Maiwand war of Kandahar who by her famous and historical poem provoked the youngsters of the country not to lose in the war against the enemy and raised the flag in the battlefield and we had Nazo Ana, the mother of the king Mirwais Khan who was a great poet, we had Rahman Baba the outstanding poet of the east, we had Khushal Khan Khattak the king –warrior and poet in whose name universities are made in Europe we had Saed Jamaluddin Afghan the scientific genius and political thinker, we had prince Shah Mahmood Hotak who by age 22 invaded Iran and Iraq and won two wars against the ottoman empire of Turkey and proved his bravery, we had many other kings who ruled the very heart of Asia, Iran and India and the Afghans who ruled India were Ghaznavis –Ghoris-Khiljis –Saedya Taraki –Lodi –Suri and Abdali , we have our national clothes, national dances and games and honesty –bravery –generosity –hospitalization –and manhood is our national character, anyway sorry to keep you away from the main topic, well I had to say them and now we are going with introduction of an Afghan that seems a touching story , Sher shah "the lion king"
Sher Shah Suri whose real name is Farid Khan Suri belongs to the Suri tribe of the Afghans, originally from Ghor, Afghanistan , that is was very famous for its brave men and Farid Khan' is the descendent of Amir Kror Suri who was a fighting hero and the first poet of Afghanistan in Pashto ,where he is describing his heroism, Farid Khan's family had moved from Ghor Afghanistan to India when Lodi Afghan ruled India, during the Ibrahim Lodi reign who was fought by his Mughal arc-rival Babur, Babur and his Mughals scattered like insects in India that Afghans ruled for so long , Babur is known as the butcher of the Afghans before to attack India and put an end to the Afghan rule in India, he savagely invaded Afghan cities in Afghanistan and plundered Ghazni– kabul and east of Afghanistan, he was like a thirsty panther where he saw Afghans he plundered, killed and brought about the great massacres, after devastating great cities of Afghanistan, Babur targeted the last kingdom of the Afghans in India and Ibrahim Lodi who faced Babur in the first Panipat war lost against Mughals and was killed along with his army, Afghans shattered from the scene in Afghanistan and India , there were Mughals occupied and captured places, but still there was one small place under the independent Afghan ruler Bahar khan in Sassram of Bihar for the Afghans try to revive and as it is the classical character of the Afghans that let the enemy to satisfactorily occupy and then it is for the Afghans to give a satisfactory lesson in return, Farid Khan family who were the royal servants of the former king of the India, Ibrahim Lodi now living under Bahar khan ruler of Bihar, Farid Khan is said to be a sensitive boy his relation strained in the family he lift home in the very early age started getting education and then came to be a soldier under Bahar Khan and due to his loyalty - ability and talent Farid Khan became a royal Guard of Bahar Khan and it is said that once Bahar Khan went to jungle for hunting where he faced a lion that risked his life Farid still a young boy faced the lion with bare hands rushed toward the lion fought it and killed, since this Farid Khan was never called Farid as he got the title of Sher "the lion" from the lord Bahar Khan and later on Sher Khan was appointed as the deputy to minor son of Bahar Khan, afterwards Sher Khan relation with Bahar Khan strained too, he lift Bahar Khan for Mughal services, Babur the Mughal who had fully fed himself by blood of the Afghans now thought there was no Afghan lift to fight and enjoyed being master of India and his great empire, but seeing once Sher Khan at the royal palace Babur scared looking at the eyes of the young Afghan, Sher Khan found the Mughals strange and lift them and went back to be deputy to the minor son of the Bahar khan, after Bahar khan Sher khan became the ruler of Bihar as the son of Bahar khan was a minor, Sher Khan being a brilliant soldier and strategist was to rule and maintain the kingship of Bahar Khan, Babur the emperor felt this danger and sent his son Humayun against Sher Khan, Sher Khan invaded the governor of Bengal and captured Bengal as this region was very rich and fertile and strategically very important to him and the victory of Sher Khan over the governor of Bengal was a turning point on the career of Sher Khan at this time he was busy with capturing places around Bihar and Bengal that Taj Khan the governor of Chunar was killed by his riotous son and a younger widow of Taj Khan lady Malika came to Sher Khan and Sher Khan was given the fort of Chunar and Sher Khan married the young lady lad Malika and took over Chunar and after the delivery of the Chunar by lad Malika Sher Khan had a very quick emergence, Babur made many attempts and wars and sent his son Humayun again to vanish the Afghans in the east but the brave garrison of Sher Khan baffled all the attempts of the Mughals for six months and Sher Khan used this limit of time as a chance and captured Rohtas, Humayun invaded Bengal Sher Khan cleverly didn’t perform an open campaign against him instead he turned back and captured places in Bihar and Jaunpur at this time Humayun was kept busy in Bengal and when Humayun heard of the activities of Sher Khan he lift for Agra before his way should be cut by the Afghans, but was badly opposed on way by Sher Khan near Buxar, the Mughal emperor suffered a great defeat and most of the emperors soldiers were drowned and captured, unluckily Humayun was saved and then Sher Khan captured alot of regions around in the east and this shocked the stands of the Mughal empire and gave rise to the young Afghan who assumed the title of Shah the "king" now and turned a great factor for the destruction of the Mughal empire and the territories he ruled by now extended from Kanauj –Rohtas –Jaharkand and the bay of Bengal in the south , to legalize his rule he gained his strength of arms and strategy and he ordered KHUTBA to be read in his name and the coins to struck in his name, next year Humayun made another attempt in 1540 the mughals and Afghans met in Kanauj the Mughal army was destroyed in Ganges and Bilgrams, Humayun could manage to escape, the other war Sher Shah carried out was near Agra again the Afghan army destroyed the Mughals and Sher Shah captured 400 royal women of the Mmughals, from this time Humayun had to lead a fugitive life and a life of wandering, by now it was Sher Shah who owned empire of India and it was him who revived the Afghans back their glory, it was him who started from nothing standing against the vast and extensive empire of the Mughals and broke it into the pieces, all he started from Sassram Bihar the birth place of famous and great Ashoka, it was Farid Khan the young Afghan who first got the title of a "Lion " then the title of a "King" by grabbing the kingdom from the Mughals and he gave the Mughals a lesson that they cant succeed vanishing Afghans even there is one Afghan lift, it was him whom we learn from, even today and praise as the "Lion King " Sher Shah was a justice lover king who put an end to religious intolerance, he organized the police system to check and pave security, Nezam-uddin says one could have all his jewels and roam around with no feel of risk to it in the reign of Sher Shah, the royal judiciary decrees that Sher Shah passed even the royal member couldn’t spare from it, he connected most parts of his empire by establishing great roads, one is the grand trunk road from Bengal to Indus –Attok and Kabul another from Agra to Bharanpur, the other from Agra to Jughpur and Chitor and planted trees besides the roads built rest houses called Sarai for traders and passengers .
He struck coins on his name and formed Rupiya the first time and removed the unnecessary tax and started developing the country socially, economically and politically strong.
He used his great power –strength and arms for the check of the internal disorder and external treat, he possessed a large army of 150,000 cavalry 25,000 infantry -300 elephants and the garrisons were maintained at the deferent strategic points of the kingdom and country ,
And the man of all the bravery and manhood finally dies in short period of five years kingdom and his son made a great to tomb for him that has the second dome in India and his tomb comes under 8 famous historical heritages of India.
