‘Ghoda Tarp’ which is still a witness to the bravery of Khwarazm Shah

When our Prime Minister went to Uzbekistan in the past few days, he also claimed in his address that he knows the history of Uzbekistan more than Uzbekistan. He visited the mausoleum of Sheikh Bahauddin, the founder of the Naqshbandi dynasty in Bukhara, visited the tomb of Amir Timur in Samarkand and also visited the mausoleum of Imam Bukhari.

Perhaps they think that the history of Uzbekistan is just that, but if they were wise, they would know that the tourism trail that they inaugurated in Qila Nandana last months and missed the achievements of Al-Biruni while standing there, is also Al-Biruni in Uzbekistan. were residents of Khiva is a city in Uzbekistan on the west bank of the Amu River. This city gave the world three great personalities. One is al-Khwarizmi who is the founder of Algebra, the second is al-Bayruni who measured the diameter of the earth and the third is Jalal al-Din Khwarazmi who would not have been a wall built in front of the Tatars, and if the Tatars had turned to the Arabian Peninsula, some human force would have made them the holy places of Muslims. Could not force respect.

It was Jalal-ud-Din Khwarazmi who fought the Tartars for years with his modest force and did not allow them to advance towards the Holy Hijaz. Genghis Khan once in his life defeated the general who was none other than Jalaluddin Khwarazm Shah.

The historic battle fought between the two greatest warrior rulers of the world, Genghis Khan and Jalaluddin Khwarazmi, was fought at Nilab in Attock and this is the historical place Ghoda Tarp where Jalaluddin Khwarazmi Shah after four days of bloody battle. He surrendered his horse to the waves of the river Indus. On this, Allama Iqbal said:

We did not even leave the plains and the rivers
We ran the horses in the sea of ​​darkness

If the Prime Minister knew this history, he would have narrated these events in Uzbekistan.

It is said that if the Tartars, who had covered the regions from China to the Caspian Sea in the first year of their invasion, would have stopped by hitting the iron wall in the form of Jalaluddin Khwarazm Shah. If it had not gone, in the next two to four years, not only Africa but also Europe would have been hit by this storm up to its last limits.

If great generals like Jalaluddin Khwarazm Shah had not been killed by robbers at the age of 32, the geography of their conquests might have been different. Jalal-ud-Din Khwarazm’s continuous victories had crushed Genghis Khan’s pride. Many famous Tatar chiefs had been killed and it was almost that the story of Genghis Khan was also over, but it happened that Jalaluddin Khwarazm Shah’s army split.

In the battle of ‘Pran’, the Sultan’s soldiers got a lot of booty, including a beautiful and expensive horse. A dispute started between the Sultan’s two chieftains, Amin-ul-Mulk and Saif-ud-din Agraq, about the right of this horse. Swords came out between the supporters of the two chieftains. Aminul Mulk’s brother was killed. It became difficult for the Sultan to control the situation. Amin-ul-Mulk was also Jalal-ud-Din’s father-in-law, which made Saif-ud-Din suspicious of the Sultan’s intentions. He decided to break away from the Sultan’s army and left for Nangarhar in the dark of night, accompanied by his army and several nobles.

When Sultan woke up in the morning, Lashkar Gah was deserted. When Genghis Khan learned of the split in the Sultan’s army, he gathered his army and pursued Khwarizm Shah like a whirlwind because he wanted to avenge his defeat at all costs.

The Sultan also sent ambassadors to his supporters to help them against the Tatar army, but when none came, the Sultan marched from Ghazni to India.

The Sultan moved away from Peshawar to the Indus River to cross the river to gain the support of the Muslim king Shamsuddin al-Tamish. Genghis Khan knew the Sultan’s intentions so he wanted to block the Sultan’s route before the Indus River at any cost. The vanguard sent by Genghis Khan in pursuit of Jalaluddin was ambushed by the Sultan’s troops and killed most of them.

Genghis Khan was alarmed by this news and started to pursue with lightning speed. The sultan was accompanied by an army of thirty thousand, while Genghis Khan was following him with an army of two hundred thousand. The river Indus was flowing at full capacity and it was not possible for an army of thirty thousand to cross the river in a short time. On the other hand, the Tatar army had come to the head. Due to which the Sultan decided to assemble his army across the Bagh Nilab in Kala Chatta Pahar and fight. On the banks of the Nilab is a verdant plain about five miles wide and twelve miles long.

When the Sultan reached this place, he realized that there was no better field to face the flood of Tartars. Here the river Sangni joins the river Indus. The Tatar armies also fell into line. The sultan knew that there was no way to escape, with the river behind and the outnumbered Tatar army in front. As soon as the sun rose, the battle drum was sounded, the battle of Ghumsan continued for two days and the soldiers of Khwarazm Shah continued to give praise even though they were less in number. On the third day, Sultan Jalal-ud-Din devised a strategy to kill Genghis Khan, as this was the only way to dislodge the opposing army, but it was not an easy task as Genghis Khan was surrounded by an army of 10,000 men. . But the Sultan’s sword tore through the opposing ranks and reached Genghis Khan.

The Sultan thought that Genghis Khan would fight seeing him, but when Genghis Khan’s horse was killed by the Sultan’s soldiers, Genghis Khan changed his horse and ran away because he knew that he would not be able to withstand the sword of Jalaluddin Khwarazm. .

Seeing Genghis Khan fleeing, his army also trembled. Before Jalaluddin Khwarizm could formulate a new strategy, Genghis Khan’s army attacked from the other side of the mountain. Since the bulk of Khwarizm Shah’s army was following the strategy of killing Genghis, the army at the rear was small in number. On this sudden attack, Khwarazm Shah’s army started retreating and Jalaluddin’s commander Aminul Mulk was killed.

Now the target of Genghis Khan’s soldiers was Jalaluddin Khwarazm Shah, whose army was cut off one by one. When Jalal-ud-Din Khwarazm Shah, after a retreat of about five miles, reached his tent, only seven hundred men remained around him. However, they continued to fight, like wounded lions, they were still turning the enemy’s ranks upside down.

He got the news that when his seven-year-old son was presented before Genghis Khan, the tyrant cut the innocent man in two with his sword. On the other hand, Jalaluddin was worried about his mother and wife and children, so he entrusted them to Darya and thus the entire family was taken in its embrace by Darya, but Sultan did not even have time to shed tears. The Sultan was fighting furiously and Genghis Khan was watching the scene. He knew that in a little while the game would be over and Sultan would be arrested and before me.

At the same time Sultan’s maternal uncle took the bridle of his horse and brought him out of the enemy’s hold with all his strength. When Sultan climbed the rocks on the river bank and looked back, the enemy’s train was increasing like a flood. On the other side, the river Indus was raging. The waves were so strong that they could disintegrate anyone in moments. The Sultan raised the slogan Takbeer and jumped into the river with his horse galloping. According to the author of Tarikh Khwarizm Shahi, the depth of the river at this point was 180 feet, in which there were scary rocks standing up.

As the Sultan’s horse fell into the river there was a thunderous sound. The water of the river rose several yards. For a moment, Sultan Jalaluddin Khwarazm was lost in the waves, but he emerged and sank several times. Others were seen moving towards the bank, fighting the waves of the river.

The icy water of November and the exhaustion of four days of fighting in place and the iron courage of Jalaluddin in place, the waves of the river gave way to the Sultan and the Sultan descended across the river. Genghis Khan was watching this scene helplessly. As soon as the Sultan reached the bank, he gave a loud laugh, which was proof that Genghis Khan, who had chased his enemy from the Amu River, could no longer spare him.

It was no longer in Genghis’s power to cross the border that the Indus River had drawn before death. Genghis addressed his sons Oktai and Chagatai and said that ‘Son is like this, the father is very lucky whose son is so brave, a young man like him will not be born in the world.’

The horse on which Jalal-ud-Din Khwarizm crossed the river became very dear to him, and it remained with the Sultan till the conquest of Tiflis, five years after the Battle of Indus. Because of this honor, he was not ridden. Historians say that if there were no Khwarazmi soldiers in Sultan Salahuddin’s army, Jerusalem would not have been conquered and Jerusalem would not have come to the Muslims.

The historic town of Bagh Nilab on the Attock Bisal Road still stands as a witness to the bravery of Khwarazm Shah and the place from where the Sultan jumped from his horse is still known as Ghoda Tarp.

When Khwarazm Shah left here, he stayed as a refugee for three years with the Khokhar Sardar Rai Russell in Qila Nandana. Roy Russell married his daughter to Sultan.

If Imran Khan had known this history, he would have talked about the cultural and cultural ties between Uzbekistan and Pakistan, but our Prime Minister, knowing everything, knows nothing.