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A father is so important in a child's life
This serial so well potrays this aspect. Akbar lost his father at age of 13-14. At 13 a child is in primary school 7th STD in these times. Akbar became an emperor at this age. And children of this age are highly impressionable. A child requires proper guidance till 16 years of age and that shapes the way a child behaves for rest of its life. Akbar's values, relationships, behaviour etc were shaped till 16years not under the able guidance of his father Humayun but his foster mother Maham and foster father Bairam Khan. That is because his parents especially father was in exile usually trying to save his life and family from enemies.
Bairam Khan and Maham took this opportunity to mould Akbar as per their whims and fancies. Where a humayun would have taught his son to forgive even dreaded enemies a Bairam Khan taught him to be ruthless and never forgive.
Where a Hamida would have taught him values of family, importance of a wife, treating all with respect etc a maham taught him to hate his own parents, she made him think his parents are his biggest enemies for having left him, she taught him that women are to be used for only pleasure, she taught him to treat only her and Adham more than fairly but all others with suspicion.
Maham sow the seeds of indebtness in him by repeatedly making him feel she had done him a favour by giving him her milk, taking care of him while in reality she and many other forster parents had been appointed to do exactly the same and paid and given more than deserving high positions to them all by Humayun. She never allowed ay of his other foster mothers, foster fathers to get close enough to him because she wanted to mould him as per herself so that in future he will remain a puppet in her hands. She went to an extent where she ensure even Akbar stays away from humayun and hamida after their exile and only go to her for everything. He had become a robot that she controlled with a remote of indebtness and hatred towards own parents. If Humayun had been around he would never have allowed these people to manipulate his son in such ways.
So from age of 3 months till 20 years Akbar grew up in the environment I mentioned above. But now suddenly he had many important new people coming in his life who started telling him how to modify his thinking. They brought new ideas, new thoughts, liberal views etc like Jodha who treated all equally, Salima who was practical not emotional in her decisions, Man singh who had a mind of his own and not scared to tell it to Akbar unlike other courtiers, Todarmal who had new ideas of reforms, Tansen who brought with him a new culture and art form. Slowly Akbar's vision broadened.
Even Atagha who was the few people who truly wanted Akbar's well being from childhood opened up and strated proving his views.
He no longer was dependent on only Maham for all advices. This made maham insecure, terrified of the prospect where Akbar was slowly becoming independent of her counsel and still successfully running his empire and endearing himself to his citizens and even enemies. She was slowly losing the remote of a robot she had assumed will dance as per her ideas. She forgot Akbar was an human not robot with a mind and heart of his own which will come to fore as he becomes big.
Akbar always had a sense of right and wrong as he would have got these from his parents Humayun and Hamida. But he was taught something else from birth. And with that his sense of gratitude and indebtness to Khan baba and Maham made him forget all their injustices and forgive Adham everytime. But what did that lead to actually it destroyed the very people whom he kept forgiving.
Khan baba was killed by his enemy and Maham on way to pilgrimage
Adham became so over ambitious by Akbar's repeated overlooking of his crimes he now assumed he can kill jalal and become emperor
And Maham well she killed his babies she tried getting to kill Akbar to make her son an emperor finally she lost adham her son only
This is called poetic justice
Now she curses Akbar saying that his babies will die. Akbar was a great son to Maham a great brother to adham and yet she cursed him. But that curse shall have no affect because Akbar has not done anything to her bad till date. A curse sticks if a person is truly grieved by you and the person cursing is a great human. Otherwise these curses are empty words.
So why did Akbar's all kids die till Salim. Some died as infant mortality was high, some were killed by maham and others may be by others. But curse was a definite no. And you never kknow God may want Akbar to grow mature and change before he became a parent. And it was true what a transformation it was from a ruthless dreaded warrior who was loved by none to a benevolent father to all his citizens, to a compassionate and forgiving person to his enemies, a person who united 4-5 religions together and treated all as one.
In jehangirnama jehangir says his parents over trust in people ensured his many siblings died. May be he was talking of Maham or other relatives and friends. Whatever it may be his birth was also a birth of a better Akbar a transformed Akbar a benevolent Akbar a compassionate Akbar. And its natural too when you see an innocent defenseless baby in your arms you realize that may be other humans are defenceless, may be they feel pain like your baby, may be they are scared as your baby, may be they need food like your baby etc When a father starts thinking all that he becomes not only a good father but a much better king. Mothers I usually say this many girls are born with these instincts not all but many. So its a man who changes most when he becomes a father. Jodha is already there almost as a mother but Akbar needs to get there. Its called self actualization or self realization.
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