ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>A&#7788AL R&#256I B&#256B&#256 (1619-1628)</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="AlAL,RI,BB,Person,Person"> <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">&#65279A&#7788AL R&#256I, B&#256B&#256 (1619-1628), son of Gur&#363 Hargobind (1595-1644), was born to M&#257t&#257 N&#257nak&#299 at Amritsar on 23 October 1619. He died at the tender age of nine years. The circumstances of his death, as narrated in<i>Gurbil&#257s Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>, were most extraordinary. A&#7789al R&#257i had a playmate, Mohan, who was the son of a local businessman, Suin&#299 Sh&#257h. One day as they played with ball and sticks far into the evening, the forfeit was upon Mohan. During the night Mohan was bitten by a snake and he died. When he did not turn up for play the following morning, A&#7789al R&#257i went to his home to find the members of his family wailing and lamenting. B&#257b&#257 A&#7789al R&#257i innocently walked up to where Mohan was lying under a sheet spread over him, and spoke: "Why do you sleep so soundly, dear friend? It is not time for sleep: and, remember, you owe us the forfeit. " Saying these words, he touched the boy with his stick. The boy stood up. The story that A&#7789al R&#257i had raised a dead body swept through the town. Gur&#363 Hargobind was not pleased when he heard this. "<i>kar&#257mat qahar hai</i>-miracle-making is violence. None should attempt to intervene in the Will of the Lord, " he told his son. A&#7789al R&#257i took the admonition to heart. Making a respectful bow, he quietly retired from the Gur&#363's presence. After ablutions in the sacred pool of Amritsar and having recited the <i>Japu</i> on the bank of Kaulsar, he lay down on the ground with the stick underneath his head and went to his eternal repose. This happened on 13 September 1628. A 9- storey octagonal edifice in Amritsar commemorating the 9-year-old S&#257hibz&#257d&#257 (Gur&#363's son) is also popularly known as B&#257b&#257 A&#7789al after him.</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"> Santokh Si&#7749gh Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1926-37<BR> <li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u> Gur&#363 <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257</i> [Reprint ]. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, M. A. , <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurnek Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>