Murad was born on 7 June 1570 in the house of the saint Shaikh Salim Chishti, at Fathabad (Fatehpur Sikri), Agra. Murad was born barely nine months after the birth of his older brother and heir apparent, Prince Salim. In the year 1581.
He was first educated by Abu-l-Fazl and, as from 1580, by Jesuit priests Antonio de Montserrat[4] (as tutor) and Francisco Aquaviva, who were called up by Akbar himself to teach Murad Portuguese and the basics of Christianity.
Murad became the first Mongol ruler to be educated by western Jesuit priests or, as Dr. Oscar R. Gómez points out, the first person to be educated in the paradigmatic model driven by Murad’s father Yalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, the 3rd Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso, and Jesuit Antonio de Montserrat, which resulted in the current existentialist model.[5]
Hence, Sultan Murad Pahari has become the first person resulting from the amalgamation of Tibetan tantric Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity (Din-e-Ilahi).[6]
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