Lehna Singh refuses offer of Governorship of Lahore from Ahmad Shah Durrani.

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 In 1767 during his eighth invasion of India, Ahmad Shah Abdali also known as Durrani :


“wrote a letter to Lehna Singh, offering him the Governorship of Lahore. As a show of courtesy he also sent him some dry fruits of Kabul. Lehna Singh who was at Amritsar, however, declined the invitation on the grounds that it was not commensurate with the guiding principles of the Khalsa to confer with an invader and thus, as his reply he returned the dry fruit along with a sample of gram, along with his own letter that contained the following words; “fruit is the food of the kings: I am an ordinary soldier and can well sustain myself on a simple meal. In regard to the offer of Governorship, I am a soldier of the Panth, which would spurn even the gift of ruler ship of the three worlds, except when it came from the Guru Gobind Singh.” In this manner Lehna Singh turned down the offer saying that to accept an offer from an invader was against the policy and honor of the Khalsa.” 


Long may history remember our relation Sardar Lehna Singh Kahlon, for his bravery fighting against the foreign invader alongside the other brave warriors of Punjab and his wise rule of the City of Lahore for 32 years from 1765 to 1797…and may it awaken my fellow Kahlons from villages Kahlwan to their glorious history, and also our mother village Mustfapur and our original home and jathera village Saidowal to their own history which is also ours - too long were we warriors who could not read or write down to my fathers generation but only wield swords, but now it is the time of the pen and for the youngsters to shine a light on our history!


I hope that others from our clan will join in remembering him and his nephew Sardar Gujjar Singh Bhangi…for their glory cannot be taken by anyone else…it belongs to them, and it is up to us to let the world know who they were - for glory it truly was!

https://www.ijmra.us/project%20doc/2019/IJRSS_JUNE2019/IJRSSJune19DalbirGr.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Cev1n0lyEQ7jhNNfh5qSJvM985Hc6kCW7kBFiELvu4r6VACPTJktlpG8

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