Who was Sultan Mehmood Ghaznavi? (Complete Biography)
In the early days of Islam, during the Rashidah Caliphate, an Iranian king defeated the Muslims of Yazdgerd and went to Turkmenistan with his companions. This was the homeland of the Turks. Descendants were completely abandoned. A thousand years ago, a young Turk of the same family was taken as a slave. This slave was brought by a governor of Samania, the most powerful kingdom in Central Asia. Whose son we and you know by the name of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi, this humble slave of Turkish descent and how his son became unforgettable characters of history. In today's blog, we will tell you all about this. Due to his abilities, he became very close to his master, and he was the governor of the Samani Empire.
The empire was established 1200 years before AJ. But during the era we are telling the story of, the empire was disintegrating, Al-Patgin also had some trouble with the Samani ruler Abu Mansur, that's why Al-Patgin rebelled and established a government in the Ghazni region in Afghanistan and established his own He declared independence and benefited from this success. His slaves were Sabbatgins. It happened that Begin promoted this governor to a general and entrusted him with the task of conquering other areas outside the empire. After attacking the provinces, these areas were part of Raja Jaipal's kingdom. Batman had enslaved thousands of inhabitants from these areas and sent them to Ghazni.
When Anpatgin died, his son and successor also died two years later. Now the Ghaznavid Empire was in disarray and a capable ruler was needed to run it, so the army and the courtiers consulted and placed Subbat Gin, the son-in-law of Ultagin, on the throne of Wazni.
The eldest son Abdul Qasim, when Al-Qasim Mahmud was only six years old, history knows this child as Mahmud and Waznami. The focus was on giving his son Mahmud Ghaznavi both military and political training, perhaps he was preparing his son to become a future sultan, which is why Mahmud Ghaznavi was successful during his father's 20-year reign. He looked like a powerful young man of suitable height. According to the books, he was so powerful that the hammer and spear he used could hardly be lifted by others. He started to fight alongside his father on every front. The first major test of his life was in the battle with Raja Jaipal of India.
He attacked Raja Jaipal's kingdom in the air. Jaipal's army also fought hard but there was one problem with Jaipal's army that most of his soldiers were from Punjab and were not used to extreme cold so this weakness was used in a strange way. There is a story written in the old books and that is that Mahmud Ghaznavi was told by the people that the spring of water which is near Jaipal's army, if dirt is put in it, it will start getting severe cold and then the Punjabi army which is half of the cold season. No way, she will be left exhausted and will not be able to fight.
Therefore, on the orders of Mahmud Ghaznavi, the soldiers started pouring dirt into this fountain, now it is just Coincidence or something else, after some time clouds covered the sky, first it rained and then snow started falling from the sky, it snowed so heavily that cattle started dying in Jaipal's camp and soldiers also started getting sick from the cold. So Jaipal immediately requested Gain to make peace with the Raja by taking 1 million dirhams and 50 elephants. He had not yet made up his mind when one of the Raja's messengers reached him, warning the correspondent that if he did not make peace with the Rajputs, the Jabals, there would be disaster on both sides. It has been reported that it is a custom of the Rajputs that in such circumstances they kill their wives and children and burn their houses to enter the ranks of the enemy and drown themselves in the red storm of vengeance. Hearing this, Surat Gein agreed to peace, but Jaipal had something else in his mind.
At that time, he imprisoned the officers of Game and started preparing for a new war. This time instead of fighting alone, he asked for help from other states of the Indian region, Delhi, Ajmer, Shikhajar and Kannauj. Jaipal took an army of 100,000 and then reached Luqman. In response, Gharib also came out for the fight. He stood on a high place and surveyed Japal's army. It was a huge army, but Salukat Gin did not have a large army to match it, so he made a war manoeuvre. In order to find the weak points in Jabal's large army, then these 5-500 troops continuously attacked only those weak points. After this victory, Samit Gin also received a heavy ransom and added the entire region from Luqman to Peshawar to his Ghaznavid kingdom. Mahmud Ghaznavi had excelled in his military training in the battles with Jaipal, but his father had not trained him morally.
It is said that Mahmud Ghaznavi built a very magnificent house in his garden and on a very Af invited his father, but when Agin saw the house, he said to his son, "I have seen this house only as a toy, which can be built by any of my subjects through wealth. advised his son that it is the duty of a prince to build such monuments of fame as pillars of glory that will last forever. About a thousand years ago, Subgat Gin died in this city of Mulch. At the time of his death, he gave his kingdom to his son Ismail. Sitting on the throne in Ismail, he started returning wealth and wealth to his courtiers.
At the time of Gin's death, he was not in possession but was always crushing a rebellion against the Samani Empire in Pur. In this he sent a message to Ismail and offered that if Ismail left the rest of the kingdom, Mahmud Ghaznavi would accept him as the ruler of Balgh and Khorasan, but Ismail refused this offer of Mahmud Ghaznavi. Now Mahmud Ghaznavi revolted with the support of his uncle and younger brother. Mahmud Ghazni marched with his army and allies towards the fort of Ghazni to capture the treasury and the fort. Agree that Ismail was also in Ghazni at that time. He also ran towards Ghazni so that he could reach there before Mahmud and then see the coincidence of history that the two brothers reached near Ghazni at the same time and now the war started between the two for the possession of the fort of Ghazni.
Elephants were also included in Ismail's army and apparently his army looked heavy, but his army could not last long in front of a commander like Mahmud Ghaznavi. So Ismail entered the fort with his soldiers and took up a position there. Now the situation was that Ismail was in possession of the fort and the royal treasury of Ghazni, but Mahmud Ghaznavi was besieging them outside, but the problem with Ismail was It was that he could not use this treasure while staying inside the fort and he could not prepare a large army from outside using this treasure, so after some time he surrendered the keys of the fort and the treasure in despair.
Present to Mahmud Ghaznavi Now Mahmud Ghaznavi asked Ismail, tell me if you had won the war, how would you have treated me? Ismail was also imprisoned in Ghazgan fort near Mazar-e-Sharif. Here he was provided with every comfort but he was imprisoned and died here. Mahmud Ghazal sat on the throne at the age of 30 but Mahmud Ghaznavi also sent his ambassador to the Samani capital Bukhara to show his loyalty to the Samani Empire, but he could not remain subordinate to this weak empire for long in 999. He might have declared independence from the Samanids, the Samanids would have sent an army to crush his rebellion, but Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi benefited from the fact that Aynak Khan, a powerful ruler of Central Asia, invaded Bukhara and defeated the Saman Empire.
Mahmud Ghaznavi, who was erased from existence forever, married Aynak Khan's daughter and made her his ally. Now he was the first official sultan of his Sultanate of Ghazni.
