Lahore, Tomb of Asif Khan

    Asif Khan, Asif Jah's real name was Mirza Abu Al-Hassan Thaas. His father's name was Mirza Aghias Baig who became known as Etemad Al-Dawla. Asif Khan was the brother of Queen Noor Jahan and the father of Queen Mumtaz Mahal. Emperor Shah Jahan's right hand man was a general and a minister. Jahangir promoted him to various positions and made him governor of Lahore in 1625 and gave him the title of Sat Hazari caste and Sat Hazari Sipah and Asif Khan, while according to some historians he was given the title of Asif Jah.History is silent about Asif Khan's birth year. Historians are also divided on the date of Asif Khan's death. In Lahore, the date of death of Asif Khan is 1634, while the inscription on the tomb of Asif Khan by the Archaeological Department gives the date of death as 1641. Asif Khan's tomb is Jahangir's tomb. The tomb of Asif Khan divides the garden into four parts.Ponds and fountains were constructed in each section, of which only traces of ponds remain. While Asif Khan's mausoleum is an attractive haven for drug addicts and "couples" due to bribery and incompetence of Archaeological Department employees, the main entrance to Asif Khan's mausoleum is a few yards away from Jahangir's mausoleum. But the Archaeological Department closed it for unknown reasons inside the mausoleum, a narrow path leading to Asif Khan's mausoleum is reserved for tourists.

    Asif Khan was the one whose courage and resourcefulness enabled Shah Jahan to ascend the throne of India. He immediately imprisoned his sister Queen Noor Jahan after the death of Jahangir and made Prince D and Bakhsh the nominal King of India He sat on the throne so that no other claimants of the kingdom would be born. Because at that time Shahzad Khurram i.e. Shah Jahan was in Deccan. If Asif Jah had not done so, Shah Jahan would have had great difficulty in securing the throne of India. Shah Jahan was well aware of this so he was always grateful to Asif Khan and always respected Asif Khan like the elders.

    "The tomb of Asif Khan was built by Emperor Shah Jahan in a period of 4 years at a cost of Rs 300,000. This Asif Badshah made him the governor of Lahore as well as Multan." He increased the rank from seven thousand to eight thousand and after some time he gave the rank of nine thousand and nine thousand cavalry. At that time, no other prince or Timurid emir could attain this glorious position and power. In addition, Asif Khan was given a jagir of five million rupees annually. Asif Khan was the emir of this empire. His current salary was Rs. 1.5 crore per annum. His wealth was innumerable. All his relatives and sons held high positions and positions in the government. He used to tell the king that the purpose of collecting money was nothing but to make the life of children and family comfortable and since all my dear relatives are happy with Khusrawana, all my wealth and estate belong to the Holy Prophet. He bequeathed all his wealth to the king through a will. Asif Khan, like his father Etemad-ul-Dawla, possessed solid intellectual ability.

    But he had a keen interest in architecture. At a cost of Rs. This field is located outside the Nakhas Delhi Gate where today Sarai Sultan, Loha Bazaar, Linda Bazaar and Shaheed Ganj are located. Inside the mansion were mosques, baths, offices, ponds, cisterns, fountains, women's and men's palaces. After the death of Asif Jah, this mansion came under the splendor of the mansion and he started living in it. For this reason, the area is called Chowkdar Ashkoh. Among the living monuments of Asif Khan, Kashmir's Nishat Bagh is still famous for its beauty.

    This garden is located on the shores of Lake Dal, a short distance south of Shalamar Bagh in Kashmir. It has twelve terraces shaped like celestial towers. From the east shore of Lake Dal, the height of the mountain has gradually increased. Asif Khan died in 1641 and the king was deeply shocked. He sent condolences to Shaista Khan, the eldest son of Asif Khan, who was the Governor of Bihar, and ordered that Asif Khan be buried beside Jahangir. A garden should be built within a high wall around the tomb and a magnificent dome should be built on its tomb which is as high as its name. So the mausoleum of Asif Khan was built at a cost of Rs 2 million in a span of four years. Asif Khan's tomb is a great historical building in Lahore. But its form has been so distorted since the Revolution that no one, except for a few acquaintances, knows what was the state of its freshness before and what is left now. How lovingly and compassionately the builders made and decorated it, but how ruthlessly the spoilers ruined it. Asif Jah's tomb was made of white marble from floor to dome. The floor inside the tomb, the floor of the eight-sided platform outside, the amulet of the tomb, the edge of the pool and even the doorway of the elegant door were made of marble. The eight doors and eight thresholds of the mausoleum and the roosters outside were covered with red stone and its two attitudes. The tomb had gold and silver lanterns and expensive lanterns. There was a memorial room, a kitchen and a few other houses for Qur'an reciters in which the guards used to stay. When the Punjab government came under the control of the Sikhs, they demolished all these buildings in the lure of stone and looted gold and silver goods. Except for the tomb amulet on which the ninety-nine names of the Almighty and the Qur'anic verses were inscribed, not a single piece of marble remained on it.   

    

    The building was reduced to rubble and all pride was reduced to dust. Maharaja Ranjit Singh damaged this magnificent building during the construction of Baradari of Hazrat Bagh Lahore and Darbar Sahib Amr Tasar. An eight-sided canal circled around the tomb. In 1880, the Government of Punjab, under the supervision of Rai Bahadur Kanhiya Lal, Executive Engineer, carried out some repairs to the mausoleum, as a result of which this majestic and majestic building survived the collapse and is still facing accidents. Built during the Mughal period, the building is a symbol of the dignity of the man who bears witness to Asif Khan's greatness in the eyes of both the king and his subjects.