A PRAYER TO ISHTA DEVATA JHULE LAL OF SINDHIS, HIJACKED BY SUFI SINGER BABA BULLEH SHAH FOR SUFI SAINT PIR SHAHBAZ QALANDAR- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
Lal meri pat rakhiyo bhala jhoole laalan
Ho Lal meri pat rakhiyo bhala jhoole laalan
Sindhri da sehwan da sakhi shahbaz kalandar
Dama dam mast kalandar, sakhi shahbaz kalandar, ali dam dam de andar
Ho laal meri, ho laal meri
Char charag tere balan hamesha
Ho char charag tere balan hamesha
Panjwan balan aai aan bhala jhoolay lalan
Ho panjwan balan aai aan bhala jhoolay lalan
Sindhri da, sehwan da sakhi shahbaz kalandar
Dama dam mast kalandar, sakhi shahbaz kalandar
Ali dam dam de andar
Ho laal meri, ho laal meri
Ucha roza peera tera
Ho ucha roza peera tera
Heth wagay darya bhala jhoolay lalan
Ho heth wagay darya bhala jhoolay lalan
Sindhri da, sehwan da sakhi shahbaz kalandar
Dama dam mast kalandar, sakhi shahbaz kalandar
Ali dam dam de andar
Ho laal meri, ho laal meri
Maanvan noon peera bachray daina ain
Bhainan noon daina ain veer mala jhoolay lalan
Ho bhainan noon daina ain veer mala jhoolay lalan
Sindhri da, sehwan da sakhi shahbaz kalandar
Dama dam mast kalandar, sakhi shahbaz kalandar
Ali dam dam de andar
Ho laal meri, ho laal meri
Chanan chanan teri nobat bajay
Ho chanan chanan teri nobat bajay
Naal waje gharyal bhala jhoolay lalan
Ho naal waje gharyal bhala jhoolay lalan
Sindhri da, sehwan da, sakhi shahbaz kalandar
Dama dam mast kalandar
Dama dam mast kalandar
Dama dam mast kalandar
Ho laal meri, ho laal meri
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O lord of Sindh, Jhulelal, and Sire of Shewan
The red robed God-intoxicated Qalandar, glory unto you!
May I always have your benign protection
Your shrine is always lighted with four lamps
And here I come to light a fifth lamp in your honor
Let your heroic name ring out in Hind & Sindh
Let the gong ring loud for your glory
O Lord, may you prevail everytime, everywhere
In the name of Ali, I pray to you to help my boat cross
(the river of life) in safety
When Khatri caste Hindu saint Guru Nanak died in September 22, 1539 at the age of 70 at Kartapur Ravi, Pakistan , the Muslims fought for his dead body.
The Muslims who were in power claimed that since Nanak went to Mecca the saint belongs to their faith. Finally they found the body was missing, with a basket of flowers in its place.
They divided the flowers and buried half of it, while the other half was cremated.
It is a shame that modern Sindhis do NOT even know that their patron saint is Jhulelal.
Why blame the Sindhis. They are the modern gypsies. They do NOT have a homeland. They are ridiculed in Bollywood movies ( papad ) .
Their homeland in Pakistan , the Sindh , was the spot of the most ancient civilization of mankind.
The story of Guru Nanak and the flowers , was written by the British.
The Brits just copied from Jhulelal's history.
When Jhulelal died at the age of 13 there was a fight between Muslims and Sindhi Hindus, as to how they would dispose off the dead carcass. The story of the flowers being divided happened with Jhulelal, NOT with Nanak.
In the song Harzat Shahbaaz Qalandar is also referred as Jhulelal. Both are NOT the same. One is a Sufi Muslim who died at the age of 94 , the other is a Hindu boy saint saint Jhulelal, who died more than a hundred and ten years before .
See how history is warped by a mere song writer.
Jhulelal had saved the Sindhis from sure death at the hand of the evil Muslim ruler Mirkshah –who told them "convert or die".
In so transpired that Mirkshah became his believer.
When he was about to kill Jhulelal, there was a sort of a tsunami ,when water entered his palace and fires broke out at the same time. The Muslim king begged for foregiveness and the rising waters receded like magic.
Below: Raja Dahir, the last Hindu ruler of Sindh.
There is a saying among the white men " First give a dog a bad name and then shoot it " .
This is what the Muslim historians did. They gave Raja Dahir the last Hindu ruler of Sindh who ruled for 32 long years , a bad name.
They charged this Pushkarna Brahmin king with marrying his own sister. No Hindu will EVER marry his own sister –this is just a big muslim lie..
They did propaganda that he raped a virgin from his kingdom every night. So to save the Sindhi Hindus ( SNIFF ! ) from such tyranny, Muhammad bin Qasim (an Arab general) from the Umayyad Caliphate, waged war and killed him in 712 AD .
Below: Muhammad Bin Qasim
Dahir's wife did Jauhar ( self immolation by burning genitals )- with all women to avoid their dead bodies being raped by the invading Arabs.
Sindh was annexed by Khalifa of Al Hilaj to his kingdom and was administered by his representatives. The Muslims spread Islam rather with deceit and the power of sword than the conviction of its being a better belief.
Today the Pakistanis has a sea port Muhammad Bin Qasim. Muhammad bin Qasim’s uncle was the of the governor of Iraq. The new caliph Sulaiman blinded Qasim –as per the amazing personal virtue of all the great muslim invaders.
Like Babur , the Pakistanis honor another Muslim invader who raped their ancestor women.
Jhulelal’s birthday Cheti Chand which falls on the second day of the Chaitra month , is celebrated by few Sindhis who remember him .
Though Jhulelal died at the age of 13, he is represented as a bearded man sitting cross-legged on a lotus flower that rests on a pallo fish which is found in Indus river. He wears a golden crown with a peacock feather and wears regal clothes, and holds a 108 bead rudraksha mala in one hand. .
It is said that when the parents of the new born infant opened his mouth they saw a vision of Sindhu flowing and an old man on Pallo fish. A Punjabi astrologer in Nassarpur called the child Uderolal; Udero in Sanskrit means one who has sprung from river waters.
The day the child was born there was torrential unseasonal rain, as if to announce the birth of the new water Avatar.
Jhulelal was born on the New Moon of Month Chaitra 1007 AD, at a time when Muslims were persecuting the Hindus. The Divine child ( compared to Lord Krishna ) was born to Devaki and Rattanchand of Nasarpur.
The birth of the child was prophesies when all Sindhis fasted for 40 days and prayed to Lord Varun, for divine intervention as their lives were in danger from the Muslim tyrant king Mirkshah-- “ convert or die”.
Jhulelal died in 1020 AD..
After 40 days of Chaaliho, the followers of Jhulelal celebrate the occasion with festivity as ‘Thanks Giving Day’ even till today.
When the child was born and his mother put him on the cradle, it started swinging on its own , as a sign of divine intervention. The child was then named ‘Julelal’ - one who swings to and fro.
The Jhulelal prayer has been bestowed to Sufi Saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalander (1177-1274 AD ), the Red Sufi. He belonged to the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order. They neatly inserted a LAL in front of his name so that the song looks tailor made for him.
Shahbaz Qalander died in Sindh (Pakistan) where his dargah is worshipped even today. Thousands of pilgrims visit his shrine in Sehwan every year, especially at the occasion of his Urs. Sehwan was known for its splendour and sanctity as a sacred place for Hindus of Sindh. The earlier name for Sehwan was Shivasthan, the city of lord Shiva.
Below: Kafir-Qila, an ancient Hindu temple converted to a fort by Alexander the Great , at Sehwan
Below: Kafir-Qila, an ancient Hindu temple converted to a fort by Alexander the Great , at Sehwan
The Muslims claim that Shahbaz Shahbaz was the spiritual disciple of Mansur Hallaj, the tenth-century martyred mystic poet of Baghdad. He lived in the ruins of an ancient Shiva temple on the west bank of the Indus. He lived in a hollow tree trunk where he meditated . .
Below: Dargah of Shahbaz Qalandar at Sehwan.
Below: Dargah of Shahbaz Qalandar at Sehwan.
He encouraged his followers to dance like the whirling dervish as a way of achieving spiritual ecstasy, a tradition still followed at his dargah in Sehwan Sharif with the accompanying of dhamaal, the beating of drums.
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Shahbaaz Qalandar was born as Syed Muhammad Usman in 1177 AD in Marwand, Iran. His father Syed Ibrahim Kabiruudin was a Sufi dervish dancer.
Below: Sehr Sehwan Sharif-- once a glorious Hindu land.
Shahbaaz Qalandar was born as Syed Muhammad Usman in 1177 AD in Marwand, Iran. His father Syed Ibrahim Kabiruudin was a Sufi dervish dancer.
Below: Sehr Sehwan Sharif-- once a glorious Hindu land.
Muslims in Sindh were inclined towards the Qarmatian Shia rulers of Egypt. They are the ones who stole the black Shiva Lingam stone on the SE corner of Kaaba – 5 feet above the ground. The Qarmatians were half-Hindu and they looked upon Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed and fourth Khalifa, as the tenth avatar of Vishnu.
The Qarmatians survive today as Ismaili Khojas --- who, till 1937, were governed by the Hindu civil law . The Pakistanis still do NOT know that the father oftheir nation Mohammed Ali Jinnah and the Aga Khan were part of this sect.
The two main and highest ranked tribes of Sindh are: the Soomra - descendants of the Soomra Dynasty, who ruled Sindh during (970 - 1351 A.D.) and the second is Samma - descendants of the Samma Dynasty, who ruled Sindh during (1351 - 1521 A.D.). Both these tribes belong to the same blood line as well.
During my 40 years at sea, I have seen Sindhis all over the world. Lot of migrant Sindhis can be found in USA, Canada, Singapore and Hongkong.
The majority of the Sindhi Hindus are followers of Shaivite tradition. A common greeting among Sindhis is "Jhulelal Bera-Hee-Paar".
According to the census of India 1951, nearly 776,000 Sindhi Hindus fled to India—due to ethnic cleansing. As of the 2001 census, there were 2,571,526 Sindhi speakers in India. Sindhi is the only constitutionally recognised Indian language without a region.
Unlike other communities who choose to converse in their mother tongue, Sindhis speak in English or Hindi even among themselves. No bank holiday is declared on Cheti Chand Day. Rothschild agve away the entire sindh having a 7000 year old rich civilization and comprising of 55000 sq. miles --free to Pakistan.
Not even a sliver of homeland was left for the Sindhi Hindus. Today all are crying for Palestine and Kashmir.
THIS SONG MAST QALANDAR WILL REMIND THEM OF THEIR GLORIOUS PAST !
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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