भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

of our discussion of the perverted Hindu sense of virtues in paragraphs 405
to 471.
588A. In the first or the second decade of the seventeenth century, the
tenth Guru of our Hindu-Sikhs, Dharmveer Shree Govind Singh found it
impossible to continue the war with the Moghuls. He was at last besieged in
the fort of Chamkaur along with his sons. Overcome with terror, some of
his sworn disciples from the Sikh army conspired to desert their Guruji,
renounce their Sikh religion and left the fort secretly. Two elder sons of the
Guruji were killed before his eyes in the battle. At last, in the face of such
grave danger, the Guruji advised all to leave battle and run for life,
wherever they could. Finding a suitable opportunity, he made good his own
escape. But in that confusion, two of his sons, of a tender age of 12 or
below, missed the way and fell into the Muslim hands. How did the
Muslims treat them according to THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS CODE?
589. The Letter of Haripant Phadke referred to above shows how kindly
and sympathetically, according to THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS CODE, the
Marathas treated the two sons of Tipu, when they came into their hands.
590. On the contrary, as soon as the brave cubs of Guru Govind Singh fell
into the Muslim hands, they were taken straight to their war council and
asked: “Are you willing to be Muslims? If so, you will be given your life
and everything you want. Otherwise nothing!” The children answered: “We
won’t be Muslims even if our life is not spared!” Immediately, the diabolic
Muslim justice decreed that the two small children be forthwith built alive
in a brickwall! While they were thus being built in, they were asked, as
each brick was placed on the wall, “Do you become Muslims?” The two
brave Hindu cubs would reply again and again: “No, we won’t be
Muslims!’ The last brick was laid on the heads of both the young martyrs
and they ceased to breathe! Then today, a true Hindu enters the vicinity of
that scene of martyrdom, he will very likely hear the words reverberating
the whole atmosphere there: “I won’t become a Muslim: nay, not at all! I
am a Hindu, I am a Sikh! I bravely court death!”
591. Supposing that by an adverse turn of events, two children of our
Peshwas were to fall in the hands of Tipu or any Muslim ruler—what then?
He would not have fed as the Hindu-hearted Haripant Phadke did, the two
tender-aged children and returned them to the Peshwa! Such a behaviour
would have been considered sacrilegious and cowardly, according to the
Muslim religious belief; they would most probably have been built up alive