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Guru Arjan Dev's subject to torture by the Mughals.

On the 16 June of every year since 1606, the Sikh have commemorated the martyrdom of their first martyr, the fifth Guru, Guru Arjan Dev. This is what Emperor Jahangir wrote in his diary called the "Tuzuk-i-Jahagiri": "In Gobindwal, which is on the river Biyãh (Beas), there was a Hindu named Arjun, in the garments of sainthood and sanctity, so much so that he had captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners, and they had loudly sounded the drum of his holiness. They called him Guru... ...I ordered them to produce him and handed over his houses, dwelling-places, and children to Murtaza Khan, and having confiscated his property commanded that he should be put to death." Read more .....