This bridge was built during the reign of #Mughal Emperor, Akbar, 450 years ago, and has been serving the people round the clock. When it was built at the order of Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, only bullock carts, carvans used it and elephants and horses crossed with their mounts. No one thought that huge cars and trucks would, one day take to it to reach their destinations. It has never cracked and never caved in.
Shahi Bridge or Munim Khan's Bridge or Akbari Bridge or is a 16th-century bridge over river Gomti in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. Akbar ordered the construction of the Shahi Bridge, which was completed in the year 1568–69 by Munim Khan. It took four years to complete the bridge. It was designed by famed Afghan architect Afzal Ali.
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“And spend in the way of Allāh and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]. And do good; indeed, Allāh loves the doers of good”
—Quran : 2:195
Sa’di Shirazi’s Gulistan:
A king sat in a boat with a Persian slave.
The slave had never seen the sea before or experienced the discomfort of a boat. He began to cry and tremble.
No matter how they tried to comfort him, he would not calm down, and the king was annoyed.
No one knew what to do. There was a wise man in the boat, who said to the king,
“If you so command, I know a way to silence him.”
“That would be the utmost of kindness and generosity,” the king replied.
Thereupon he ordered the slave thrown overboard into the sea.
He went under a few times, and then they grabbed him by the hair and pulled him over to the boat.
He clung to the rudder with both hands, and when he got on, he sat in a corner and calmed down.
The king was amazed and asked, “What was the wisdom in this?”
“In the beginning,” he replied, “he had not tasted the tribulation of being drowned, and he did not appreciate the safety of the boat.
Thus it is that only one who has experienced calamity appreciates well-being.”
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