The Taj Mahal represents the vow of true love. It all started with Prince Kurrham seeing the beautiful Arjumand at the bazaar. It was love at first sight, and with the Kings blessing the Prince Kurrham and Arjumand wed. The years together were fantastic. The two were inseparable and the empire was the best ever. The Princess bore many children and the Prince won many battles during their marriage.
Unfortunately one very unlucky day the Prince was messaged that the Emperor was ill and had died. He was the new ruler of India. Shah Jahan went to work right away, building up the empire making it even better. He consulted with his beautiful wife very often, asking her opinion regularly. After few years after the emperor had died; Shah Jahan’s wife announced that she was expecting another child. Shah Jahan was thrilled, but he soon found out that he was going to war. After weeks of pleading Shah Jahan regretfully took his wife with him. However weeks turned into months, the battle raged on. His wife was expecting in a few days everyone started to get anxious.
In the early morning he left to go to battle, during the day he got a message that his wife had a beautiful baby boy! Later that day he got an urgent message from his wife’s servant. He rushed to her side; she told him that she was going to die. With regret in his heart, his wife took her last breath that night.
When returned home, heartbroken, he was depressed couldn’t do anything but morn. After weeks of fasting and morning a dream told him to create a place that connected both earth and heaven together. A beautiful palace he decided. Upon dreaming this he summoned the greatest architects and calligraphers in the whole world to build a monument of his wife Arjumand. This monument stands her as a shrine of love between a young shopkeeper and a prince.
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