King Akbar

Guru Amar Das made the langar system started by Guru Nanak with only twenty rupees customary. Wherever Guru Amar Das accumulated religious congregation he also started the custom of pangat (row) and announced that who so ever comes to the darbar of Guru should first take food at langar (community kitchen)
Mughal King Akbar was an open hearted and virtuous king who respected all the religions. He was highly troubled and sad because he had no offspring of his own. When various appeals and prayers in Dargaahs and Temples bore no fruits, then he tought of appealing in the darbar (hall of audience) of Guru Amar Das. When Guru Sahib came to know about his arrival, then he ordered that according to the norms of Guru’s darbar, whether a man is a king or a pauper, he should first sit in pangat and take langar before coming to Guru’s darbar. King Akbar did not feel low or ashamed and without any discrimination of any type, he sat in pangat and took langar before coming to Guruji. Then, he went to Guruji with his appeal and asked for his blessings. Guruji was much pleased with him and he blessed the king.
King Akbar requested Guruji that he wanted to donate some of his land for langar. Guruji replied that langar is run with the devotion and honest earnings of people and so he did not want his land. But King Akbar’s heart was so much full of love for Guru that he transferred some land on the name of Guruji’s daughter Bibi Bhani. Later, Guru Ram Das Ji bought a land of rupee 800 and established Chak Rampur (Ramdaspur) where he flourished the city of Amritsar and established first Sarovar (holy lake) named Baani Simran. Then Guru Arjan Dev Ji established Sri Harmandir Sahib at that place. After some years, Guru Hargobind Ji established Akal Takht Sahib.
This was the devotion, love, faith and respect of a great Mughal King for Sikh religion.