Hamida Banu: History

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the story of Emperor humayun and his beloved wife hamida banu (the parents of #Akbar the great)-----
Hamida Banu Begam , ' Maryam Makani' (1527 - 29 August
1604) was a wife of the second Mughal Emperor , Humayun , and the mother of Mughal Emperor ,Akbar.

Hamida met Humayun, as a fourteen- year-old girl and frequenting Mirza Hindal's household, at a
banquet given by Dildar Begum, Babar's wife and Humayun's stepmother in Alwar. Humayun
was in exile after his exodus from Delhi , due to the armies of Sher Shah Suri, who had
ambitions of restoring Afghan rule in Delhi .When negotiations for Humayun's marriage with Hamida Bano Begum were going on, both Hamida. there had call that a person hindal
wanted hamida though there is only circumstantial evidence for it. In her book, the
Humayun-nama, Hindal's sister and Hamida's close friend, Gulbadan Begum , pointed out that Hamida was frequently seen in Hindal's palace during those days, and often attended parties organised by their mother, Dildar Begum.Initially, Hamida refused to meet
the Emperor, eventually after forty days of pursuit and at the insistence of Dildar Begum, she
agreed to marry him. She refers to her initial reluctance in her book the Humayunama ,
I shall marry someone; but he shall be a man whose collar my hand can touch, and not one whoseskirt it does not reach."
The marriage took place on a day chosen by the Emperor, an avid astrologer, himself employing his astrolabe, at mid-day on a Monday in September, 1541 (Jumada al-awwal 948 AH) at
Patr. Thus she became his junior wife, after Bega Begum (later known as Haji Begum, after
Hajji ), who was his first wife and chief consort. after the marriage hamida understood humayun that he wasn't very clever and he wasn't most perfect but he had a most soft heart and a very much strong religious man that after rejecting of hamida he never ever disrespect or dishour this lady. he liked and accepted her marriage proposal with hamida. only one reason that was hamida was very much religious girl with a soft clear heart.she was full of purity. and hamida also found that the simplity. softer heart of humauyn emperor humayun was most religious,and soft
hearted,he always tried to forgive everyone. even he forgave criminal too,he thought that everyone should get 2 chances for become good,but one side it was good for as normal man but never suit for a ruler because some criminal get the light of goodness.though it wasn't good for a emperor,it us a symbol of a ruler most softness but hamida loved humauyn that foolish activities and that qualities created love in hamida's heart for his simple beloved husband humayun. humayun never understood the evils plans and didn't head for thinking about that things. he believed that we live for loving people and Almighty Allah (god) till
the time of oue death. he was very religious minded. but he son Akbar the
great got all best equal qualities. Akbar was his most youngest lil over qualityfull son...
Two years later, after a perilous journey through the desert, on 22 August 1542, she and
Emperor Humayun reached at the Umerkot ruled by Rana Prasad, a Hindu Sodha Rajput, at
a small desert town, and the Rana gave them asylum. Two months later she gave birth future Emperor, Akbar on the early morning of 14 October 1542 (fourth day of Rajab, 949
AH), he was given the name Humayun had heard in his dream at Lahore - the Emperor Jalal-ud-
din Muhammad Akbar In coming years, she took on numerous tough journeys to follow her husband, who was still in flight. First the beginning of the following December she and her new born went into camp at Jn, after traveling for ten or twelve days. Then in 1543, she made the perilous journey from Sindh, which had Qandahar for its goal, but in course of which
Humayun had to take hasty flight from Shal-mastan, through a desert and waterless waste.'
Leaving her little son behind, she accompanied her husband to
Persia, here they visited the shrines of her ancestor, Ahmad-e Jami and Shiites shrine, of
Ardabil in Iran, the place of origin of Safavid dynasty which helped them immensely in the
following years . In 1544, at a camp at Sabzawar, 93 miles south of Herat, she gave birth to
a daughter, thereafter she returned from Persia with the army given to Humayun by Shah
of Iran , Tahmasp I, and at Qandahar met Dildar Begum, and her son, Mirza Hindal. Thus, it
was not until 15 November 1545 (Ramdan 10th, 952 AH) that she saw her son Akbar again, thescene of young Akbar recognizing his mother amongst a group of
women has been keenly illustrated in Akbar's biography, Akbarnama. In 1548, she and
Akbar accompanied Humayun to Kabul.Meanwhile, Sher Shah Suri died in May 1545, and after that his son and successor, Islam Shah died too in 1554, disintegrating the Suri dynasty rule. In
November 1554, when Humayun set out for India, she stayed back in Kabul . Though he took
control of Delhi in 1555, he died within a year of his return, from a fall down the steps of his
library at Purana Qila, Delhi , in 1556 at the age of 47, leaving behind a thirteen-year-old lil most younger heir, Akbar, who was to become only one the best emperor of greatest emperors of the
empire history for all time. Hamida Bano joined Akbar from Kabul, only during his second year of reign, 1557 CE, and stayed with him thereafter, she even intervened into politics on various occasions, most notable during the ouster of Mughal minister, Bairam Khan , when Akbar came of age in 1560.She was buried at Humayun's Tomb after her death on 29 August 1604 (19th Shahriyar, 1013 AH ) in Agra , just a year before the death of her son Akbar and almost half a century after death of her husband, Humayun. Throughout her years, she was held in high regard by her son Akbar, as English traveler Thomas Coryat recorded, Akbar carrying her palanquin himself across the river, during one of her journeys from Lahore to Agra. Akbar shaved his head and chin only on two occasions, one at the death of foster-mother Jiji
Anga and another at the death of his mother.

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