TIPU SULTAN
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TIPU SULTAN
ABOUT ME / TRANSLATOR'S BRIEF INTRODUCTION
I am Muhammed A. Hafeez B.Com from Hyderabad
India translator of Islamic books from Urdu to English.
My first article Owaise of Qarni is avaialable on Yahoo and Hotmail
web search and this article was published by Mr. David E. Rosenbaum of
New York Times on a famous website of U.S.A.
Now I am a publisher with YANABI E BOOKS for my following E books
which are translation work of episodes from Tadhkiratul Aulia (Muslm
Saints and Mystics ) from Urdu to English .
1. 05 MUSLIM SAINTS
2. 14 MUSLIM SAINTS
3. 20 MUSLIM SAINTS
4. 34 MUSLIM SAINTS
TOTAL MY 85 E BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE ABOVE WEB SITE.
The book Tadhkiratul Aulia (Muslm Saints and Mystics ) was written
by Shaikh Farid Al-Din Attar in Persisa.
Please note this book's translation is available in the U.S.A and in
some other countries but in which many chapters are missing but those
missing chapters are available in my above E books. In my translated
books some main important chapters are available and due to its
importance those chapters were written by the author in the beginning
of the book .
Thanks to Mr. David E. Rosenbaum of New York Times
The second chapter Owaise Al-Qarani was published on the following
web site by Mr. David E. Rosenbaum as he was the editor of the
below web site.
Mr David E. Rosenbaum's publication note
About the entry on Owasie Al Qarni.
Muslim Saints and Mystics is an abridgement, translated by A.J.
Arberry, of Attar's only known prose work: Tadhkirat al-Auliya (The
Memorial of the Saints), which he worked on throughout much of his
life and which was available Arberry's translation is an abridgement;
the entry on Owaise al-Qarani translated by Mohammed A.
Hafeez,B.Com., omitted in Arberry's text, is included at the following
link: Owaise al-Qarani.
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On the Friday night of Jan. 6, 2006 in Northwest Washington, when
New York Times reporter Mr. David E. Rosenbaum was beaten, robbed and
dispatched to his death.
But in the course of history of the book Tadhkirat Al-Auliya
( Muslim Saints & Mystics ) the name of Mr. David E. Rosenbaum will
be remembered always as he had published the above article with the
special note with the following details.
Some details about the life of Shaikh Farid Al-din Attar .
The details of the works by Shaikh Farid Al-din Attar .
He introduced also the translator ( Muhammed A. Hafeez B.Com. ) and
his work of translation of the second main chapter Owaise of Qarni
from the above book.
Kindly note in my E books one additional episode Tipu Sultan from
Nasim Hijazi's Urdu novel 'Aur Talwar Toot Gai' is added .
I request the readers to go through it for which I shall be highly
obliged to all for their kind reading of the episode TIPU SULTAN
from the following link .
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Translated from Urdu to English by
Muhammed A. Hafeez, B.COM.
H.NO. 16-11-16/1/21,
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Tipu Sultan
This chapter only describes the death scene of Tipu Sultan, the tiger
of Mysore. It does not cover his other great successes and war
victories which he fought bravely against the British kingdom. The red
flag on his tomb, over his grave in Srirangapatnam reminds every one
that the tiger's life of one minute is better than the jackal's life
of 1000 years. The future generations will remember this great martyr,
who is still living in the hearts of the people and will remain in
their heart always, as the martyr never die and remain alive always.
It is said that there is a divine help and food available for them.
Due to such greatness and martyrdom, daily great number of people are
visiting his grand tomb to shed their tears and to pay respect and
tribute to this great warrior of the world history.
Tipu Sultan reached the door of Fort of Srirangapatnam with his
bodyguards and troops on 4th May 1799 for the fourth Mysore war. Due
to his appearance there was a great encouragement for his soldiers who
were fighting inside of the north gate and outside of fort walls. They
attacked with great force on the army of the enemy. The Sultan got
down from his horse and joined the first line of the military group.
Immediately he was in the middle of many Mysorean military groups,
safe and protected. The soldiers were fighting without care of their
lives. By this time the British army had occupied their positions at
the fort walls. The firing from the upper side was causing
difficulties to the soldiers of Sultan who were fighting on the
ground. The officers who were treacherous were absent from duty on
that front, but this was not a problem for the soldiers of Sultan
because the leader of their respect and freedom was with them. They
forgot that the enemy had finished his journey of weeks and months in
the shortest possible time and they had entered Srirangapatnam due to
misdeeds of treacherous. So, it was not war but it was a treachery
against the brave pillar of India, who stood against the colonial
powers in India when all the local rulers had supported them. The
soldiers of Sultan forgot that there was a rain of bullets on them and
they also knew well that their great leader, who showed them the great
way in their lives for freedom and respect, was at the door of the
death. Sultan was wounded severally. The wounded soldiers of Sultan
were feeling happy with their wounds on their chests. They were
watching the brave face of the death. The blood of the Sultan was
falling on the soil of Srirangapatnam. When the second bullet hit the
Sultan there was weakness on the face of the tiger of Mysore, but he
was still fighting bravely and many of his soldiers were also fighting
with him without caring for their lives. Inside the trench there were
large number of dead bodies of the enemy. Thousands of British, who
were wounded severally, were dying. The firing from two sides on the
walls of fort was very severe. Regarding the Mysorean soldiers, number
of death crossed thousands. When the condition of Sultan became very
serious due to wounds, then his bodyguards told the Sultan, "His
Highness; now there is no other way except to surrender ourselves to
the enemy?"
The Sultan replied, "No, for me the tiger's life of one-minute is
better than the jackal's life of 1000 years."
After some time, the Sultan and his officers rode on their horses and
the Mysorean soldiers followed them. But when they reached the
northern gate of the Fort they saw that some of the positions were in
the control of the British enemy. A large number of soldiers,
children, old persons and women were trying hard to go out of the
Fort, but the British were pushing them inside the Fort with their
guns and were forcing them to go to the backside of the Fort. When
they saw the Mysorean army coming towards the gate, they started
firing them. The firing was also started from the walls of Fort and a
bullet hit the Sultan's horse. It died on the spot. The Sultan fell on
the ground and his turban also fell on the ground near him. But the
Sultan was very brave, he tried and with great difficulty he was
making himself stand when suddenly a bullet hit his chest. He fell on
the ground again. A British soldier tried to open the belt of his
sword but the Sultan was still alive and he did not allow the soldier
to take out the sword. It was an insult to the Sultan. He fought
bravely and hit the soldier with his sword with his full force, but
the soldier opposed with his gun. The Sultan's sword hit the gun and
it broke into two pieces. That soldier then raised his gun up, pointed
it towards his head and made the fire. The sun of Mysore, who had
shown the beautiful stages of freedom to the people of Mysore, had
set. After three hours of sun set the British army captured the city
of Srirangapatnam and its Fort. The army of Hyderabad then entered the
city under the command of Mir Alam. Inside the city, there were dead
bodies of about 12 thousands soldiers of Mysorean army, but the
success of the British and the Nizam's army was incomplete, because
they could not find the dead body of the great Tipu Sultan. They
searched each and every corner and place of the palace. With the help
of treacherous they searched the houses of the faithful soldiers and
friends of the Sultan. The young prince was frightened. The wounded
and helpless persons were asked about the Sultan. The soldiers of
Sultan who were on the different fronts were also asked about the body
of Sultan but they could not reply in this matter. The soldiers who
had seen their Sultan falling from the horse on the ground could not
reply them correctly even though they were offered money and wealth.
Some of the Sultan's soldiers thought that Sultan was alive and was
under the pile of dead bodies. They waited for the proper time to take
out the Sultan from it. Others thought that he was dead but they did
not pointed his dead body so the enemy could not find his dead body.
There were rumours that the Sultan was dead and his faithful followers
had taken away his dead body. Some believed that Sultan had not died
but he was wounded and disappeared and will come back again.He had
left Srirangapatnam after the first attack between British and
Hyderabad army troops and had reached prince Fateh Haider. He will
make his head quarter at saraya or chital durg and will continue his
attacks from there. These news not only created confusion among the
army troops of British and Hyderabad but also to the treacherous who
had sold the freedom of Mysore for the promises of land and wealth
from their foreign lords. They were very much worried about their
future when they had seen the fate of Mir Sadiq and Moin-ud-Din.
In the midnight, Mir Qamar-ud-Din, Pornia, and Badar-Uz-zaman were
sitting in front of the palace of Sultan and were talking with English
army officers. Some soldiers were around them and were holding torches
in their hands. At that time Mir Nadeem came over and cried, "Now I
got the correct information about Tipu Sultan that his dead body is
there in front of north gate of the Fort under the pile of other dead
bodies. So please follow me upto there." All of them followed him and
they reached that place where there were many dead bodies. On the
order of British officers, all dead bodies were checked one by one.
When they were doing so, one English soldier touched the hand of a
corpse when his hand hit with some hard metal and the turban from
corpse head had fallen down. The black long hair covered the face were
open. The English soldier explained the details to his officer. When
they brought the torches closer, they found a women's corpse who was
wearing golden bracelets in her hands. They found another women's
corpse, which was badly injured with many bullets. Pornia took torch
from the soldier, carefully watched that woman and recognised her. The
English officers asked him, "Are you able to recognise her?" Pornia
said, "Yes, she is an orphan Hindu girl and her father was died in the
last war. The Sultan had adopted her as his daughter." "And who is
another woman?", asked English Officers. "I do not know about her. May
be she belongs to the royal family.", replied Pornia. After some time
all the corpses were checked. When they saw the body of Sultan Tipu
they were silent. Sultan's dress was full of bloodstains but his face
was full of grandeur and grace. In his hand was handle of his broken
sword and his dress was same like his other army officers but his
turban was different from others. Sultan's turban fell down from his
corpse. Badar-uz-Zaman had taken that turban. One English officer
asked him, "Is this Tipu Sultan?" Mir Qamar-ud-Din replied in low
voice, "Yes, congratulations for the victory." One English soldier
cried, "He is alive." So some persons pointed their guns towards the
body of Tipu Sultan. One English officer came forward, checked the
pulse of Sultan, put his hand on the chest of Sultan and said, "He is
dead." Badar-uz-Zaman looked at the Sultan's turban, touched it to
his eyes with great respect and said, "We are his murders and not all
of you. We had murdered him and our coming generations will put
flowers of respect on his grave." The English officer told Qamar-ud-
Din that they are grateful to him and asked him to do arrangement to
send the corpse in palki to the palace. He informed General Harris.
After some time there were slogans of victory from all the corners of
the Fort and with great joy and happiness the English soldiers moved
to the houses of Mysorean people for plundering and looting. The other
groups of British army, who were searching the Sultan, also followed
them in looting and plundering the people's properties and killing the
innocent men and women. That night turned into a black night for the
inhabitants of the Mysore city. There were cries from thousand of
daughters of this nation but there was no reply for it. Due to the
misdeeds of Mir Sadiq and others, all such things happened. The
mother who had nourished with her milk to Mir Sadiq, the treacherous,
was also ashamed. No house of Srirangapatnam was safe and secure from
the brutality of the English army. The treacherous, who had helped Mir
Sadiq, Pornia, Qamar-ud-Din and Moin-ud-Din were then thinking that
they had not only sold away the freedom of Mysore but also they had
sold the respect and value of their daughters and women. The soldiers
of Sultan killed Mir Sadiq and Mir Moin-ud-Din before they received
their reward of treachery from their foreign lords. Their souls must
be watching the misdeeds of British army doing wrong in their houses
for whom they had made the way of entry to the city of Srirangapatnam.
Their daughters and women were in distress condition due to the
misdeeds of the drunkard soldiers. Those women cried and appealed as
follows.
I am wife of Mir Sadiq. I am his sister. I am his daughter. This is
the house of Mir Moin-ud-Din and he was friend of Lord Welsly. General
Harris knew him very well and you can see his corpse in the other
room. The people had killed him because he was a friend of the British
army, so you should not do harm to the families of the faithful
persons to East India Company and to the daughters and women of the
nation. I am son of Mir Moin-ud-Din and these are my sisters and this
is my wife, please take me to General Harris. But there was no reply
from the soldiers except their laugh and cruel misdeeds. The soldiers
of Sultan's army, who were disappointed with the result of war,
started protecting their houses against the cruel deeds of the British
soldiers who were drunk and were very busy in the evil deeds of
looting and plundering. There was stream of Blood in the streets and
bazaars of the city.
On the next day, at about four O'clock, the Sultan's funeral
procession started and was followed by prince, officers and four
companies of the British army. The faithful wounded soldiers of the
Sultan and other persons were ahead and were holding the sultan on
their shoulders. There was lot of fear and terror in the city due to
looting and plundering which took place in last night. Streets and
bazaars were vacant. When the funeral procession left the Fort all
men, women and children from all the communities joined it with heavy
heart. On the way the number of people increased and their fear and
terror decreased gradually. They were considering themselves as the
most unfortunate people and were thinking that the Sultan's corpse is
their guard. The men of Srirangapatnam wept loudly and women untied
their braids in the grief of the Sultan's death. When the funeral
procession left the Fort, the wind was very slow at that time and
there was too much humidity in the atmosphere. The people were
watching a dangerous storm on the horizon. After some time a black
storm covered the entire sky. When the procession reached Lal Bagh and
the qazi finished the funeral prayer, the corpse was placed
respectfully in the grave. At that time there was severe thundering in
the sky. People were very afraid of it. The British army was ordered
for the gun salute but the sound of the guns was not heard clearly
because of the thundering of clouds. It seemed that the sky was making
'arrangement' to welcome the soul of great Tipu Sultan.
The darkness in the atmosphere and the thundering of lightening
increased and due to this the houses and doors started shaking in the
city. General Meadows, Major Beatson and Ellen had descried this black
storm in their diaries in which they had written that lightening had
fallen on some parts of city of Srirangapatnam as well on the British
army camp of Bombay in which two soldiers were dead and a large number
of soldiers were severally wounded. The treacherous, who were in the
procession under the custody of the British soldiers, were very afraid
of this. Immediately after the funeral started the heavy rain and the
streets and bazaars of Srirangapatnam were full of water. After some
time some officers and soldiers of the Mysorean army noticed the flood
in the river Kaveri. An old army officer wept loudly and said, "I have
not seen such a flood in the river Kaveri in the first week of May
ever in my life. Oh! Treacherous of Mysore, you should have waited for
one more day as the God was willing to help us but you have missed
that chance. On that day if you had not opened the doors of
Srirangapatnam then we could have defeated the enemy without wasting
our single bullet." He then said, "Oh! My friends, for this day the
Sultan was waiting. How unfortunate we are that the clouds which would
have witnessed our success, they are washing the tears of our defeated
soldiers."
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Reference book :
Nasim Hijazi's Urdu novel 'Aur Talwar Toot Gai'.
Translated by:
Muhammed A. Hafeez, B.COM.
Email: hafeezanwar@xxxxxxxxx
Hyderabad-36, (India).
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