History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c48.s4.5

v3.c48.s4.5

(M.A. 154.) But such attempts at retaliation were futile. Soon a leader appeared among the Sikhs who organized the sect into the most efficient and implacable enemy of the Mughal empire and the Muslim faith. Govind Rai, the tenth and last guru (1676—1708) and the only son of Tegh Bahadur, was a man of whom it had been prophesied before his birth that "he would convert jackals into tigers and sparrows into hawks." He was not the person to leave his father's death unavenged. All his thoughts were directed to turning the Sikhs into soldiers, to the exclusion of every other aim.