An eye witness account of the Vaisakhi of 1699 by a spy of Aurangzeb

Below is an eye witness account written by one of spies of Aurangzeb, whose job was to send daily reports about SatGuru ji and what goes on in the Divan everyday to Aurangzeb. He too took Amrit after seeing the miraculous event with his own eyes. His name prior to taking Amrit was Abu-ul-Trafi, after he took Amrit, his name was changed to Ajmer Singh, who fought against the same government that he worked for, and attained Shahidi. The below was originally in Urdu, and has been loosely translated into English. This was his last report to Aurangzeb:


“On the day Guroo Gobind Singh Ji prepared Amrit in Anandpur, the
attendance in the diwan was about 50 to 70 thousand. The Mughals had
four thrones (seats of imperial power), Delhi, Agra, Lahore and
Kalanur. But the grandeur of Guroo Ji’s throne was in a class by
itself. The grandeur of this throne was out of this world.

Guroo Ji came to the diwan and, unsheathing his sword, spoke in a
thundering voice that he needed a head. No questions or hesitation at
all, Bhai Daya Ram came forward to Guroo Ji. Guroo Ji right in front
of all cut of his head from his body in one stroke. Every body present
was stunned. Then Guroo Ji again thundered and demanded one more head.
Right on Guru’s call, Dharam Chand got up, came to Guroo Ji, bowed his
head and said here is my offering of my head. Guroo Ji again, in one
stroke cut off Bhai Dharam chands head from his body.

Now there was a big commotion in the diwan. But Guroo Ji in his
thundering voice went on demanding heads, one after another. Himmat
Rai, Mohkam Chand and Sahib Ram got up and offered their heads. Guroo
Ji cut off the heads of these three also. Many from the congregation
went to Guroo Ji’s mother and narrated the whole happening in the
diwan to Mata Ji.

Guroo Ji cleaned up the blood from the five bodies and heads, and even
washed the floor, then the Guroo of these infidels stitched one head
with another body, one by one, this process took about three hours.
Then he covered these dead bodies with white sheets.
The Guroo of these infidels then took a cauldron made from stone and
put an iron wok (bowl) without handles on top of it. He then poured
water into the wok and started preparing “Amrit” (aab-e-hyat- elixir
of life). The infidel Guroo kept churning the water with his double-
edged sword and kept on reciting his kalma (Gurbani). This process
went on for 1.5 to 2 hours. During this time a lady came from Guroo’s
house and put something in that water. Now the Amrit was ready.
From the corpses he took the covering sheets off. First he sat on the
head side of Daya Ram and poured Amrit into his mouth, then poured
some into his head and then sprinkled some in his eyes, and then he
asked the dead body to say waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh.
As if on his Guroo’s command, Daya Ram got up and repeated in his bold
voice, Waheguroo ji ka khalsa, waheguroo ji ki fateh.
It appeared that in the entire congregation everybody was so stunned
that it seemed like no one was breathing. There was pin-drop silence.
All the present were mesmerised with their Guroo’s miracle. In the
same manner one after another the Guroo made the other four alive too.
Then he took all five of them into a tent. After a while Guroo Ji
along with the five came out. The five were now wearing new attire
(uniform, bana); those five risen from the dead were standing in a
line. Then their Guroo came in front of them and took bir rasan
(posture of the brave-kneeling on one knee) and asked for Amrit. At
this point, the five asked what are you offering to get this Amrit.
The Guroo said that “I will sacrifice my whole family for the sake of
the panth” then these five gave Amrit to Guroo Ji, and his name was
changed to “Gobind Singh” (from Gobind Rai). The word Singh was
attached with the other fives too, -Daya Singh, Dharam Singh, Himmat
Singh, Mohkam Singh and Sahib Singh.
(I was very remorseful and cried like a baby) After that, thousands
took Amrit. Even, I was attracted like a magnetic force and with
no regret fell on Guroo’s feet. I requested to the Guroo to give
me Amrit too. Guroo Ji already knew about my role as a spy and
traitor, put his hand on my back, gave me Amrit and changed my name to
Ajmer Singh. Just with this act, my sins of numerous lives got washed
away.

Where did you get that from?

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I believe this account has been proven to be false...there has never been a historic source attributed to it and it has been only found on the internet.

The above account has been taken from a book, and translated by some Singh into Hindi, Punjabi & English. Somehow, it ended up on the Internet for the benefit of the cyber Sangat. It was originally in Urdu.

It is also a well known fact that when the Khalsa was founded, the news were heard all around the world, this was the biggest event to ever occur.

It was first discovered by Bhai Raam Kishan Singh. It was in Persian originally. This account was referenced by Bhai Veer Singh in Devi Poojan Partal, Giani Dit Singh in Durga Parbodh, Macauliffe in his book Vol 5 and Sohan Lal Soori in Umdat-Ut-Twarikh Daftar 1. None of these sources claim the document lies in Aligarh University. I am skeptical about it being an eye witness account. Most probably it was written later in 18th century. Sri Gur Katha is definately more authentic. Guru Rakha

Thanks Veer Bijla Singh Ji, for some insight on authenticity.

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We're questioning Authenticity of the document - is there a need to ??
I would question the so called "tent" where the panj pyaree were taken" talked about in other versions too - as it doesn't make sense - None of Guru Sahibans did anything in hiding
from sangat did they??

Is it an eye witness account? So far I believed, it is. If we have started looking for the authenticity of this account or who is the author of this persion note or where do we find this note orginally; there is nothing bad in it. As readers of the sikh history, we are supposed to take interest in actual sources.

Above account is important, as it goes into detail. Eye witness is important in itself. Moreover, it has nothing against Gurmat viewpoint, I think. Fixing head of one with the body of other is a micro level detail. It seems to convey some meaning.

This Vaisakhi, I started telling this SAKHI to a young child. He threw me a question. Where did the blood go? This account answers that.