Alai Minar

"Whether an incomplete dream looks like this?", is the question one faces while walking around Alai Minar- an incomplete tower of victory.

Allauddin, after successful campaigns in Deccan & South India, had accumulated abundant wealth and wanted to build the finest architecture, so he undertook the ambitious project of expanding Quwwat ul mosque. He wanted to make a tower double the size of Qutb Minar, that will transcend time and narrate the glory of his victory till eternity. But he died before it could get finished. The merciless Karma was completing its circle. 

Allauddin reaped what he sowed. He treacherously killed his uncle Jalaluddin who loved him like his own son, similar to the fate Allauddin faced. During the last phase of his life, he was suffering from Dropsy. He also faced several rebellious attacks, according to one popular theory it was his close companion Malik Kafur who killed him. The man who built his empire by plundering and destroying structures wanted to build something in his name, but fate did not allow him, and he died during the initial phase of construction. The cycle of Karma was finished.

Today his Alai Minar, an incomplete tower of victory, is standing with rough edges, with no roof, under the shadow of the complete tower of victory- Qutb Minar. Allauddin left no inspiration behind like Qutb-ud-din Aibak, to finish his incomplete task. Thus his monument stands for 800 years as a manifestation of an incomplete dream.