The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan’s own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

Aysha Taryam
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The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan’s own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion. When you read about the Taj Mahal, you will realize that for Shah Jahan, building the Taj Mahal was not just a passion but also something of an obsession. He had to build it in his lifetime and he did so with an unquenchable passion. He did this because he had fallen in love with his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died at childbirth. The world believes that Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal because of love but in reality he built it because of pain and sorrow.

Source: The Opposite Of Indifference: A Collection Of Commentaries

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