Homosexuality was quite common in Isamic culture during the 15th century in South Asia. It was written by Sultan Mahmud Mizra, uncle of Babur in Tuzuk-i-baburi OR Baburnama(9) https://twitter.com/ajeetbharti/status/1291645737869008896
Sultan Mahmud Mizra writes:
“He took beautiful boys of his noblemen and admitted them into his “boys’ harem”. He surrounded himself with scores of beautiful boys. This practice became a custom throughout his kingdom and noblemen occupied themselves with this mode”.
“He took beautiful boys of his noblemen and admitted them into his “boys’ harem”. He surrounded himself with scores of beautiful boys. This practice became a custom throughout his kingdom and noblemen occupied themselves with this mode”.
In Page 120-121 of the biography he says that he was not much interested in his wife but was maddened by a boy named Babri.
“During this time there was a boy from the camp market named Baburi,” he writes.
He confesses that he had not loved anyone like he was mad for this boy.
“Even his name was amazingly appropriate. I developed a strange inclination for him – rather I made myself miserable over him.”
He confesses that he had not loved anyone like he was mad for this boy.
“Even his name was amazingly appropriate. I developed a strange inclination for him – rather I made myself miserable over him.”
He used to compose verses in love of the boy. For example: “There has been no lover except me who is so sad, passionate and insulted. And there is no one more cruel and wretched than my lover!”
“Before this experience I had never felt a desire for anyone, nor did I listen to talk of love and affection or speak of such things. At that time I used to compose single lines and couplets in Persian. I composed the following lines there:
‘May no one be so distraught and devastated by love as I;
May no beloved be so pitiless and careless as you.’
Occasionally Baburi, my young lover, came to me, but I was so bashful that I could not look him in the face, much less converse with him.
May no beloved be so pitiless and careless as you.’
Occasionally Baburi, my young lover, came to me, but I was so bashful that I could not look him in the face, much less converse with him.
In my excitement and agitation I could not thank him for coming, much less complain of his leaving. Who could bear to demand the ceremonies of fealty?”
“It happens to me for some selected individuals, I spent several speechless moments seeing him quietly, several sleepless nights thinking of him until I got him”
Once Babur was roaming with his friends when Babri came in front of him in a lane. Babur had loss of speech and could not even look at him due to excitement. He narrated:”I get embarrassed looking at my lover. My friends leer at me and I leer someone else.”
He writes, ”I used to get mad in excitement and passion. I could not think that lovers have to face this. I could not go away from you, nor can I stay with you due to high level of excitement. You have made me completely mad, O my boy lover!”
As noted Delhi based Islamic columnist Ziya Us Salam writes (3) based on his reading of a copy of Dilip Hiro’s Babur Nama, and during the course of a casual conversation at the South Asia International Centre in New Delhi with an LGBT activist:
By his own admission, he was infatuated with Baburi, a teenage boy, on seeing whom Babur composed a couple of couplets. “Nor power to stay was mine, nor strength to part; I became what you made of me, oh thief of my heart.” Indeed Babur pined for the love of Baburi …”
As per Islamic tradition Babri mosque does NOT look lyk a mosque. It was built by Babar’s Gen Mir Baqshi, who was a Hijra,who did NOT know much about Islam.Mughals did NOT build an UJU,for washing the body parts before namaz& there is no vast open space inside for people to pray.
@DrRizwanAhmed1 has done his higher studies in Islamic studies, He is a very well known patriotic citizen, He tells about the history of Babri mosque and who was Babri, in an interview with a Pakistani journalist, @Arzookazmi30