At Dina in what is now Moga district, Guru Gobind Singh Ji was sheltered by three brothers, Shamira, Lakhmira and Takht Mal, grandsons of Rai Jodh, who had served Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji.
It was here that he dictated the Zafarnama, the epistle of victory, a letter in Persian verse addressed to Aurangzeb. Bhai Daya Singh Ji and Bhai Dharam Singh Ji carried it to the Deccan and delivered it.
The letter accuses the emperor of perjury for the broken oath at Anandpur, defends the resort to arms when all other means have failed, and does not ask for anything. It is the only document in Indian history in which a religious leader who has just lost his four sons and his mother addresses the emperor responsible as an equal.
It is 111 couplets. It is included in the Dasam Granth.
Gurdwara Lohgarh Sahib at Dina marks the place. The village is small and the road to it is not signposted from the highway.
Aurangzeb is recorded as having summoned the Guru to the Deccan after reading it and as having died before any meeting could take place. Whether the letter reached him at all rests on the Sikh account.
The Guru was sheltered at Dina by three brothers of the Phulkian line after Chamkaur and Machhiwara.
The gurdwara at Dina Kangar marks the place. The letter it produced is one of very few documents written by a Guru that survives as a text.