Pir Buddhu Shah and Guru Gobind Singh

Pir Buddhu Shah was a highly revered Muslim Sufi saint who lived in Sadhaura. He had immense love and spiritual respect for the Tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji.

Knowing the Guru needed an army, the Pir recommended 500 Pathan soldiers who had been discharged by the Mughal army. The Guru gladly employed them. However, when the surrounding Hill Rajas formed a massive alliance to attack the Guru at Bhangani, 400 of these Pathan soldiers betrayed the Guru, broke their oaths, and fled in the middle of the night.

When Pir Buddhu Shah heard of this betrayal, he felt deeply humiliated and responsible. Though he was a man of peace, he knew the Guru's cause was righteous.

To wash away the shame of the desertion, the elderly Pir immediately armed his four young sons, two brothers, and 700 of his devoted Sufi disciples. They rode swiftly to the battlefield of Bhangani and joined the Guru's heavily outnumbered forces.

In the fierce battle that followed, the Pir's forces fought with incredible bravery. Two of Pir Buddhu Shah's sons and hundreds of his followers were martyred on the battlefield, but the Guru's forces achieved a decisive victory.

After the battle, Guru Gobind Singh Ji embraced the grief-stricken but proud Pir. The Guru offered him rich rewards, but the Pir only asked for a comb (Kanga) holding a few of the Guru's fallen hairs as a sacred relic of their eternal bond of love.