SUNDRI by Bhai Sahib Bhai Vir Singh

Translation by Bimal Kaur

PART XIX
When they reached the camp, Sundri and Dharam Kaur made a bed under a tree with dry straw and leaves and spread a sheet on it. Then they placed the wounded man on it.

Meanwhile Sham Singh and Baiwant Singh came up and when they saw the man was a Mughal soldier, they were very upset.

"We know our religion orders us to show pity and be helpful to those in trouble, but we must be extremely careful when we deal with the enemy. Their one aim is to remove us from the face of the earth, and we cannot expect any sympathy from them," they said.

Under these circumstances we must first see to our security before we let the enemy into our midst, however desperate his condition may be", commented Sham Singh. "We cannot and must not compromise the safety of the Jatha!"

Sundri replied: "Virji1 forgive me for my hasty act. In future I shall be more careful. But now that he is here, please let me nurse him. If he dies that will be Wahequru Ji's 'Hukam', but if he survives we will blind-fold him and lead him far away from the camp." Reassuring her brothers, Sundri became busy with her chores.

After finishing her work, every day she would bandage the man's wounds and bring him food from the kitchen. A month passed and the young Mughal became fit enough to be able to walk.

Sham Singh ordered a couple of Sikhs to follow the man all the time in case he left secretly and gave the location of the camp to the Mughal army.

One day the man said to Sundri, "I can't ever repay you for saving my life but I am very grateful. I had always thought that the Sikhs were tough and uncompromising, and I am astonished how they can be warriors and yet have such soft hearts. I am quite well now and would like to go back to my family."

Sundri gave the message to Sham Singh1 who ordered a group of Sikhs to tightly blind-fold the Mughal and leave him by a roundabout way as far away from the camp as possible. But in his heart he had a sense of unease and foreboding.

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