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NO Mansi, I don't agree with you on this honesty part. True even I am happy thet he realised that Jodha's gift ws the best for a king and at the same time Ruqaiya had given him the standard outfit which fits to his caliber of a Badshah. to compare and distingush the value of the gift was like comparing the love of ones mom & wife. A man can be loved both his wife and mom together immensly but the same can't be compared publicly and exclaim, all along I was under the impression my mom's love a great and now I know my wifes love outbeats my mom's love. NOWAy that can be done or comparable as both are at different wave length. If one is in FM, the other will be @ RM.Originally posted by: skanda12
Ela, even we all have that dilemma all the time, na? Honesty versus diplomacy? How many times do we find even in our lives a question mark as to whether to tell the truth or to be sensitive and diplomatic?I am personally glad he chose honesty yesterday, because he had to show Ruq at some point that she cannot be assuming he was her "property" and he should only be loyal to her and her gifts and her wishes and her needs of him. She needed a reality-check, which he gave her inadvertently, so that was a good thing from one angle.The principle of being diplomatic is good overall, but so difficult to live up to!
However happy I may be for Jodha, but I feeling sad for Ruqaiay the more. It was an open insult to her as he mearcilessly told the crowd that earlier he had said that no gift can equal to Ruqaiya's gift but Jodha's turned out to be the best. rather he ould have said, he was wrong in that statement as Jodha's gift proved that there is an equal. Added to that he invited Jodha to sit next to him while that place was for the chief Begum on all occasins except for few where the other Begum is the reason for celebration.
If I were in her position, I swear, I would have felt the same pang if not more. Though I mioght ot have broken anything out of rage, for sure I would ahve locked myself in some room till I till shed all my grief.
True, one has to be honest but your honesty should not hurt others. There is a saying" Sathyam bruyath, priyam bruyath, na bruyath sathyam apriyam" means, tell the truth, tell the happy news but never tell teh thruth which migt cause hurt and unhappiness".
he could have spared his vocal appreciation of Jodha's gift by degrading Ruqaiya's. When he could not comment anything about his mother's gift, Salima Sultan's gift, what was the necessit to comment on these 2 ladies's gifts?. Does that mean teh taveez which was given by Hamida is less important than the golden outfit or the love of his praja. NO, so why to be too expressive when it was not required.
Ok on a lighter note, how come Jalal was left alone on his birthday night? 😉 Despite having a full harem, the poor guy was sitting alone and thinking. Did all his begums thought only to make his day best one and forgot about his night altogether?😕😕😕 If this is the importance his wives give to his nighs, there is no wonder why he was adding additional ladies to the harem every now and then and even tought of Daasi's at times😆😆😆
btw did you know that he had an Harem full of 5000 ladies / wives (both offical and unofficial put together) and yet had only few kids of his own😊
