Timur Shah, son of Ahmad Shah Abdali: When the queen of the Mughal dynasty poisoned the king-loving slave girl with her own hands

 

She was a slave but very gorgeous as well as bright and because of these qualities she ruled the heart of the king. The king often met his concubine in the garden, which made her look like a thorn in the queen's side.

 

The queen, the king and the maid were distressed by this relationship and then a cup of poison was carried so that this relationship could be ended forever.

 

This is about two and a half hundred years ago today when the Durrani Empire ruled in Peshawar, northern Afghanistan and India. The Bala Hissar fort in Peshawar was the dwelling of Durrani king Timur Shah, where he used to stay in winter and move to Kabul in summer.

The maiden's name was Bibi Jan, whose tomb is still contemporary in the Wazir Bagh area of Peshawar. The locals know it as 'Beju di Kabar'. The tomb was constructed in the 18th century.

The love of a king and a maid

 

The story starts after 1772, when Timur Shah, son of Ahmad Shah Abdali, established the kingdom.

 

Archaeological Department research officer Bakht Mohammad told that only the most precise information about the Durrani period was accessible at the moment, as most of that period had not been documented.

 

According to him, the love story of Timur Shah and Bibi Jan and the story of the retaliation of the queen also occur in the form of tradition and it is told in folk tales because there are steady and authoritative writings or books on it.

 

Ahmad Shah Abdali, also known as Ahmad Shah Durrani, ruled over parts of Afghanistan and Iran, as well as parts of northern India, including Peshawar. The Mughal emperors were in authority in India at that time.

 

After Ahmad Shah's death, his eldest son, Timur Shah, became king, living in Kabul in the summer and in Peshawar in the winter.

 

Citing his research on accessible information, Bakht Mohammad said that Timur Shah Durrani was married to a Mughal family and his wife, the Queen, was the daughter of the Mughal emperor Alamgir.

 

According to Bakht Muhammad, Bibi Jan Timur was a slave of the king and was very beautiful and smart. Timur often consulted Bibi Jan about consecutively the empire and upholding relations with the Mughals.

 

"Their love stories were ordinary and the queen knew them too."

 

According to Bakht Muhammad, the king lovingly called Bibi Jan "Bebo". The king's close connections, including the queen, who did not like Bibi Jan, ironically called her (Bibi Jan). Beju is called a primate in Persian.

The queen's trick

According to Bakht Muhammad, the queen of the Mughal dynasty and her friends were jealous of Bibi Jan because of her intimacy to the king, and so it was planned to remove Bibi Jan from the path because people in the court did not want That Bibi Jan should give information to the king.

 

One day the queen called Bibi Jan and started conversation. During the conversation, the queen asked Bibi Jan if she would give him some instructions, would she follow. To which Bibi Jan said that your order is on the head and eyes.

 

The queen asked Bibi Jan to drink from a cup. That drink was really poisonous. Bibi Jan was conscious of the condition and knew that the queen was telling her to drink poison. After some supposed, Bibi Jan said that she required to meet the king once, but the queen did not allow Bibi Jan to meet the king, after which Bibi Jan drank a cup of poison and died.

 

According to Bakht Jan, there are also civilizations that the queen cleverly and deceitfully gave Bibi Jan a cup of poison.