Some clarifications on Muinnudin Chisti and claims of him beheading Prithviraj Chauhan and some even claim him taking his daughter some claim some other hindu raja's daughter to take as wife. Some claims are made by @BharadwajSpeaks while some more outlandish by @GemsOfBollywood
First of all we shall start with contemporary muslim and Hindu historians. All three contemporary muslim political historians Hasan Nizami, Fakhr i Mudabbir or Minhaj ul Siraj do not even mention Muinuddin let alone giving him some claim of any significance.
Neither Ziauddin Barani mentions him, another a little later historian Isami only mention one thing that Muhammad bin Tughlaq once visited his grave thats all. These are all muslim historians of the time. If he was living in Ajmer prior to battle of Tarain and
was some significant person as claimed by their so called sufi source then even contemporary hindu historian Jayanaka also failed to mention him. So no contemporary historian mention him at all, let alone showing him some significant person. Now come to Sufi sources
Unlike the sufi sources quoted by our friends ie Siyar al Awliya, these are more contemporary works. The contemporary sufi sources Fawaid ul Fuad and Khair ul Majalis also do not mention such a "significant man", even sufi sources. The later work called Siyar al Awliya by Amir
Khurd which our friends are all quoting is only made up of miracles done by their Sufi Saints including Muinuddin Chisti. Now this work has been said by historians to be based on forgery of malfuzat. The claim in this book that Muinuddin came to Ajmer even when PRC was ruling
is doubted by many historians and they agree he came to Ajmer long after Second battle of Tarain, although this is doubtful.
Anyway even if we consider this dubious work which is obviously never mentioned by contemporary and is based on forgery, still the Amir Khurd don't mention that Muinuddin took any hindu Raja's daughter as his wife. Yes their own source
do not say this. More surprise is they even twisted their source, Amir Khurd dont even say that Muinnuddin captured or beheaded PRC. Their so called sufi source only says that when Chisti settled in Ajmer and PRC's agent objected to that Chisti says we have caught
PRC and given him to army of Islam, then Ghurid army came toward india and in ensuing battle of Tarain, PRC was captured. This is the miracle Amir Khurd talking about that he made this happen, Amir Khurd doesnt say that PRC was captured by Muinuddin himself or he beheaded him
and of course no daughter of any raja, bs. This is called twisting of already doubtful source to suit the agenda. Its clear from contemporary works that Chisti was not even worth mentioning by anyone even Sufi contemporary works. The later book which contains a
the miracles of Sufi saint has a miracle mentioned as Chisti helping ghori by miracle. Such miracles are abundant in such sufi works, how Army of Genghis Khan was defeated by slave general of now dead Ghori by the help of sufi saint Bakhtiyar kaki, or how
Sufi curse brought down mongols on persia. Now on this basis can we say that Sufi destroyed Persian Khwarezm empire being at the head of Mongol army, lol. Who manipulate such miracle stories like that.
Now come to their actual source both bharadwaj and bollywood guy are not using Amir Khurd as they claim, or they would have known this. They are actually using Sita Ram Goel's book and Sita ram Goel is using citations from none other than PM Currie's book on Chisti.
Here is what PM Currie say about Chisti taking some daughter of Hindu Raja claim which btw is not in their so called sufi source and is denied as PM currie as later concotion. Thanks @yashasvipratap for the ss, i couldnt copy his tweet,will link below.
So to sum it up, No contemporay mention of Chisti even by Sufi source, later sufi based on forgeries only mention it as miracle of Chisti and not actual act. The still later tradition which is not based on history say that chisti took some hindu raja's wife, mind you
Even this highly insignificant claim do not mention it as daughter of PRC. Some idiots i believe even made it into Sanyogita, the PRC's wife all by themselves, because history making has become a good business these days.
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