Editing Shah Jahan (section)

===Birth and background===
[[File:Manohar. Emperor Jahangir Weighs Prince Khurram. Page from Tuzuk-i Jahangiri. 1610-1615, British Museum, London.jpg|left|thumb|Jahangir weighing young Prince Khurram by [[Manohar Das]] {{C.}}1610-1615]]
He was born on 5 January 1592 in Lahore, present-day Pakistan, as the ninth child and third son of Prince Salim (later known as '[[Jahangir]]' upon his accession) by his wife, [[Jagat Gosain]], a Rathore Rajput Princess from [[Kingdom of Marwar|Marwar]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Shah Jahan |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shah-Jahan |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=17 October 2023}}</ref><ref name="Findly 1993 125">{{harvnb|Findly|1993|p=125}}</ref> The name Khurram ({{langx|fa|{{nq|خرم}}|lit=joyous}}) was chosen for the young prince by his grandfather, Emperor [[Akbar]], with whom the young prince shared a close relationship.<ref name="Findly 1993 125" /> Jahangir stated that Akbar was very fond of Khurram and had often told him, "There is no comparison between him and your other sons. I consider him my true son."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jahangir |author-link=Jahangir |translator-last=Thackston |translator-first=W. M. |year=1999 |title=The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India |url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/30/mode/1up |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=30 |isbn=0-19-512718-8}}</ref>

When Khurram was born, Akbar, considering him to be auspicious, insisted the prince be raised in his household rather than Salim's and was thus entrusted to the care of [[Ruqaiya Sultan Begum]]. Ruqaiya assumed the primary responsibility for raising Khurram<ref>{{harvnb|Eraly|2000|p=299}}</ref> and is noted to have raised Khurram affectionately. Jahangir noted in his memoirs that Ruqaiya had loved his son, Khurram, "a thousand times more than if he had been her own [son]."<ref name=Tuzuk>{{Cite book |last=Jahangir |author-link=Jahangir |translator-last=Thackston |translator-first=W. M. |year=1999 |title=The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India |url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/46/mode/1up |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=46 |isbn=0-19-512718-8}}</ref>

However, after the death of his grandfather Akbar in 1605, he returned to the care of his mother, Jagat Gosain whom he cared for and loved immensely. Although separated from her at birth, he had become devoted to her and had her addressed as [[Hadrat|''Hazrat'']] in court chronicles.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kamboh |first=Muhammad Saleh |title=Amal I Salih |quote=During her stay at Fatehpur, the mother of Shah Jahan, Hazrat Bilqis Makani, a resident of Agra became ill. The treatment did not work. Finally, on 4th Jamadi-ul-Awal, she died and according to her will, she was buried at Dehra Bagh, near Noor Manzil.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Perston |first1=Diana |title=A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal |last2=Perston |first2=Micheal |quote=Although removed from his mother at birth, Shah Jahan had become devoted to her.}}</ref> On the death of Jagat Gosain in [[Agra|Akbarabad]] on 8 April 1619, he is recorded to be inconsolable by Jahangir and mourned for 21 days. For these three weeks of the mourning period, he attended no public meetings and subsisted on simple vegetarian meals. His consort [[Mumtaz Mahal]] personally supervised the distribution of food to the poor during this period. She led the recitation of the [[Quran]] every morning, and gave her husband many lessons on the substance of life and death, and begged him not to grieve.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lal |first=Muni |title=Shah Jahan |publisher=Vikas Publishing House |year=1986 |pages=52}}</ref>