<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Akbar, the Great (1542 - 1605)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can a man - all alone - foist a god upon his fellows<br>Even if it's only himself<br> And they his subjects</div><div style="margin:10px 0">G.. is Akbar! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does the muezzin from the minaret of Qoutoub-Minar<br>look up or<br>down to the illiterate savant emperor<br>whose newly-ordered cosmos<br>much as Tamerlane and Genghis Khan's blood<br>mixed gods<br>invented the Gysin-Burroughs cut-up and fold-in method<br>a cornucopian chimera</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> shi'ite-sunnite-kharidjites<br> hindu/buddhist-jain<br> confucian-taoist/zoroastrian<br> orthodox-christian/judaic<br> saivite-vaisnavite<br> mahayanist-theravadite<br> shintoist-zen-chan<br> agnostic-atheist</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A…. is Great! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the begining there was no VERB for him<br>In the end<br> from<br>'brahmana' Himalayas to the 'asurya' Deccan<br> from<br>Ghazna and Kabul to the spent chugged mouth of the Ganges<br>where bloomed the Allah-Upanishad</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One common language<br> One uncommon religion<br> One classless society<br> One mutually nourishing art<br> One scientific quest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the sweet music of friendly disputation<br>within then the world's vastest book and art collection</div><div style="margin:10px 0">though knowingly<br>took to wife an Hindu princess<br>chose his prime counsellor from among the Brahmin élite</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where within hearing distance lithesome nymphs bathed in scented milk<br>his victoriously wearied warrior limbs back from punitive expeditions<br> through Panipat Delhi Agra Punjab Gwalior Ajmer<br>Gujarat Bengal Sind Orissa Baluchistan Ahmadnagar Kashmir<br> Khandesh<br>to circumscribe the sub-continent<br>a Ceasar at the court of Fatehpur-Sikri</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Akbar is ___! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who would parse and complete or conclude the syllogism</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For « One » who dared abolish the jiziyah</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Note</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Akbar (1542-1605) , the third Mughal Emperor, edicted that muezzins should herald the rising of the sun by the call: Allah-u-Akbar! <br>The « jiziyah », a word of Arabic origin, meaning a tax levied on non-Muslims who wished to conserve their own property, and imposed by the Moghul sovereigns - on and off - in India, was abolished by Akbar in his seventh year of accession to the throne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(©: T. Wignesan, March 13,1992, Paris - from the sequence/collection: 'Words for a Lost Sub-Continent')</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=T.+Wignesan">T. Wignesan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523633" data-title="Akbar, the Great (1542 - 1605) de T. Wignesan" data-description="Can a man - all alone - foist a god upon his fellows Even if it's only himself And they his subjects G.. is Akbar! Does the muezzin from the minaret of Qoutoub-Minar look up or down to the illiterate savant emperor whose newly-ordered cosmos m..."></div> </div> </div>

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