ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>ABDULL&#256 BH&#256&#298</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="ABDULL,BH*"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279'ABDULL&#256, BH&#256&#298, Abdul according to some Sikh chroniclers, was a Muslim minstrel who recited heroic balladry at Sikh congregations in the time of Gur&#363 Hargobind (1595-1644). Abdul was born in the village of Sur si&#7749gh, now in Amritsar district of the Punjab. He first came to Amritsar in1606 at the time of the installation ceremony for Gur&#363 Hargobind at the Ak&#257l Ta<u>kh</u>t. According to <i>Gurbil&#257s Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>, he and his companion, Bh&#257&#299 Natth&#257, sang the stanza on the occasion :</p> <blockquote class="C1"><p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Throne everlasting</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Has by the Holy Gur&#363's presence become haloed,</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indescribable is its splendour,</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How may I sing its glory!</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Seeing the Gur&#363,</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Both the sun and the moon were shamed.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So sat on the throne the Holy Gur&#363 to</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the remembrance of the Lord God attached.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Abdul and Natth&#257 have composed verse</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;to sing his praise.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</blockquote></p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Both Abdul and Natth&#257 remained at Amritsar thereafter and recited poetry extolling chivalrous deeds of past heroes.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As B&#257b&#257 Gurditt&#257, Gur&#363 Hargobind's eldest son, got married, he was taken round by the Gur&#363 to Ak&#257l Ta<u>kh</u>t and Harimandar S&#257hib to make obeisance. The Gur&#363 then invited Abdul to recite a panegyric.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Abdul and Natth&#257, as reports <i>Gurbil&#257s Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>, accompanied Gur&#363 Hargobind when he left Amritsar for K&#299ratpur in the &#346iv&#257lik hills. As his time came, Gur&#363 Hargobind asked them to return to their native Sursi&#7749gh.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"><i>Gurbil&#257s Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion. </i> Oxford, 1909<BR> <li class="C1"> Gupta, Hari Ram, <i>History of the Sikhs</i>, vol. I. Delhi, 1973<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Bhagat Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>