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”.
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 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.
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
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