Gurdwara Bhai Bir Singh Dhir Singh

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Gurdwara Bhai Bir Singh Dhir Singh or Theh Sahib Bhai Bir Singh ate Dhir Singh, a small room in the vicinity of Burj Baba Deep Singh, has recently replaced a platform (thara, in Punjabi) which marked the place where two Ranghreta Sikhs, named,

Bir Singh and Dhir Singh, both were brothers respectively, offered themselves as targets for the Guru to test a muzzle-loading gun presented to him by a Sikh. Baba Bir Singh Rangreta was given the leadership of 13 Soh Ghodh Swar Misl of his father, by Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Baba Dhir Singh Rangreta was called as ( Baaj Singh ) by Banda Singh Bahadur, as he was very swift and fast in his vision and actions in the battlefields. This Gurdwara has been constructed for the remembrance of these two brave and fearless Rangreta sikhs tales. This is constructed on the place were they have became target for the test for the first to face the bullet for the Guru Gobind Singh's new gun.

According to Bhai Santokh Singh, Sri Gur Pratap Suraj Granth:

Chaudhary Dalla once boasted about the loyalty and courage of his Jatt soldiers. Guru Gobind Singh asked him to provide a couple of his men as targets so that he could test the range and striking power of the new weapon. The strange demand stunned Dalla and his men out of their wits and none of them came forward. Chaudhary Dalla and his mens showed cowardness for the Gurus request, and they got astonish on seeing the loyalty and bravery of the Rangreta Sikhs for the Gurus demands and facing of the first bullet for Gurus demand. As per the Historians and incident, Dalla Chaudhary was making fun of Rangreta and other sikhs, and been biased for them and glorifying him and flattering about himself and his jatt sikhs. But after seeing this all, he got shamed on himself.

The Guru there upon called out the two Ranghreta Sikhs who were doing their assigned work for the khalsa. They came running, each trying to be in front of the other in order to be the first to face the bullet. Dalla, astonished at the Sikhs spirit of sacrifice, was humbled.

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