'Shah Jahan' of Umerkot who erected a 'new Taj Mahal' in memory of his wife

It is wide believed that the mausoleum, designed by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, is that the greatest image of affection within the world.

 

There is little question that this monument of affection may be a distinctive and charming expression of a husband's love for his partner.

Be it the house owners of 5 star hotels or the transnational firms merchandising tea leaves, the rice traders or the confectioners WHO have opened sweet outlets in tiny and large cities of Asian nation and Pakistan, of these ar named when the mausoleum and also the eternal story of affection attributed to that. ۔

 

Whether it is the historians WHO wrote books on this white marble building or the administrators WHO created films on this story, the poets WHO created the mausoleum the topic of their poetry, or the failing lovers WHO sighed at their poems, they were all fifth within the Mughal Empire. The monument designed by prince Shahabuddin Mohammad Shah Jahan appearance beguiled.

But now, four hundred years later, another 'Shah Jahan' has erected a brand new 'Taj Mahal' within the desert of Sindh, regarding 800 klick from that celebrated monument at urban center.

 

Let's attend Dhibo village in Umerkot district of Asian nation to fulfill Shah Jahan on this 'Modern Day'.

 

Shah Jahan of Umerkot

 

If you raise any passer-by during this village wherever the person WHO designed the Taj Mahal lives, nobody can verify you in feeling.

 

Everyone here is aware of 65-year-old Abdul Rasool Prakrit with a protracted white beard. By the way, he's the biggest possessor within the space and owns nine,000 acres of land, however his real reason for fame is that the building he has inbuilt the village land site.

The dream of the Taj Mahal

In terms of education, Abdul Rasool, a lawyer, landholder by profession and a person of heart, initial visited Asian country in 1980. once he reached city, he asked his Indian friend to go to the mausoleum.

 

The loyal friend brought the Pakistani guest to the front of the world's most famed building on the banks of the Jumna watercourse. Abdul Rasool was therefore entranced by the white marble building that he couldn't get out of it for an extended time.

 

When he came to Omar Kot, he started dreaming of mausoleum in his sleep. Mentioning his married woman, the naive village girl aforementioned, "You have come back to visualize the mausoleum, that's why such dreams square measure coming back."

Twenty two years difference

Abdul Rasul Pali was married once he was eighteen and his better half Maryam was forty years previous. Despite the age distinction between the 2, their 'arranged marriage' was a 'love marriage' in an exceedingly few days.

Maryam didn't browse however knew the recitation of the Qur'an. She additionally browse Urdu and Sindhi books. She, like most rural ladies, ran the house, stitched and roasted.

The style of their delicious roasted food remains on the tongue of Abdul Rasool.