Experience the Adventure As We Drive You to The Fifth City of Delhi
Every site can be viewed in vivid imaginations and every visitor in each visit adds unique colors to the site. And the way a writer perceives the place and its beauty, gets reflected in his narration! But certainly, I am not a writer, I am a traveler rather! And for this experiencing and feeling the warmth of the ancient memories, I am loitering in the live streets of the magnificent Firozshah Kotla!
The Mystery of Jinns
The fort, constructed by Firoz Shah Tughlaq around 700 years ago, is a bundle of fables!
Every inch and brick of the glorious monument screams about a numerous unveiled tales. One such thrilling story is the story behind it’s popularity as the “Fort of Jinns”. While digging the past, people around me unfolded the fort’s secret mystry; The Mystry of Jinns. It is believed that their lies around 450 Jinns inside the fort. This fact, although rumored, definitely gives chills down the spine! But what is more fascinating is the fact that, besides all horrendous haunted stories, the magnificence and beauty of the fort lures the visitors the most. Thus, the bizarre stories never stop one to dive deeper into the glorious history and they automatically get drifted to explore its beauty more and more!
Epitome of Aristocracy
Expanding his territory from old Indraprastha to Riz, Tughlaq made “Firozshah Kotla” his new capital. Thus, Tughlaqs left no stones unturned in adding all possible grandeur to this grand fort! Being a magnetic source of attraction, the two much appealing “pillars” present in the fort are live examples of this aristocracy. If stories are to be believed, these great pillars were specially brought from Meerut and Ambala. Tourists come and go, but a wanderer like me would just get stuck with a single touch of the mystical pillars. These enigmatic pillars will, undoubtedly, leave one with unsolved puzzles.
Collage of Faith and Superstitions
Not just one but a considerable number of people have faith in the magical power of the Jinns in the fort. Thus, every Thursday of the week, a huge mob of believers visit the talismanic fort; all with a written letter inscribing their plea inside it. Presuming that some mystical power would hear their prayers and would take away their pain and sorrows, they enlighten candles and diyas and leave the letters there itself. Believing this “superstition” seems a bit tough, but the eyes of the visitors sparkling with a ray of hope and relief compel you to develop an automatic “faith” in this “superstition”!
Myth, Faith and Belief
It is, thus, believed that Jinns fulfill all your wishes. This faith again has a history behind it! The myth was cascaded when after emergency a saint naming “Laddo Shah”experienced the mystical powers of these Jinns in reality while his stay at Firozshah Kotla. He then propagated this experience to his disciples and since then the “myth” started to be valued as an unquestioned “belief”!
Tales that take you to Tranquility
Now what would set you aback in the journey is our next encounter, i.e., Minar-e-zarin! As the sayings go by, this 13.1m-high Minar, which is surrounded by railings, is the home to the most famous Jinn of all times, Laat Vale Baba. This much believed Jinn is assumed to be the head of all the Jinns in the fort with the supreme powers of healing and peace. This strong belief seems live in people’s faith when they are seen making efforts just to have a single touch of the walls of the sorcerer minar in order to retain peace and tranquility in their hassled life! Science has definitely back aided and justified many phenomena, but what science should be applied here to decode this wizard mystery still perplexes me the most!
Trust or Mystery?
The black soot layered on the walls is often blamed as a black spot on the beauty of the fort; many opine that it is a proof that the fort is deteriorating. But to add-on to the queue of all such transcendental values, this soot also has some hilarious belief! When put as a “Kajal”, this magical black soot enhances the beauty of a women’s eye to an extent where the entire elegance of the fort seems to get imitated in those blue-hued eyes!
From Jinns to the Diyas and Letters, to Minar-e-zarin to the Soot on the walls, the myths are hard to believe. The believers find their full faith in it, though. Now, whether it is merely a mystery or largely a trust, take a drive to further decide!