Saga About Construction of Qila
It is widely believed – and this yarn has been spun by the people of the town that when ever the Sikh Maharaja thought of constructing the fort and started constructing the fort it kept on dilapidating intermittently. An eminent sorcerer told the Maharaja that when any Muslim will be immolated at the threshold of the fort then it will not dilapidate any more. Meanwhile, a saint, Baba Balaq Shah Walli told the Maharaja that if he will drop one drop of blood at the place of fort, instead of the immolation of a Muslim, then it will also not dilapidate. It was witnessed that when the saint dropped one drop of blood from his finger at the threshold of the fort, afterwards it never dilapidated. A shrine of that saint was built near that fort. Fatima Sultan Syed, a journalist, a mother, an activist, prolific writer in the World Pulse Emagazine from Indian-administered Kashmir, also mentiones in her story, My Life In Kashmir, that she stayed in Qila Sobha Singh.
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