Once Jehangir visited a temple in Agra. He took his grandsons Dara Sikoh  and Aurangzeb along for the visit. While Dara had no issues visiting  the temple with their grandfather, Aurangzeb a young kid at that time  refused to enter the temple saying it will make him a Khafir “non  believer” and its blasphemy for him to enter a temple.  Jehangir tried  to convince the kid Aurangzeb to come inside the temple but Aurangzeb  simply refused and Jehangir left Aurangzeb outside and went inside with  his other grand kid to offer prayers. Jehangir had puja offered and than  went outside and Aurangzeb was waiting for him.

Jehangir was so angry at aurangzebs attitude during temple visit that he  came back and called Shah jahan, his son and complained about  aurangzebs behaviour in temple. But Aurangzeb never changed his attitude  and remained defiant and disliked anything to do with hindu or any  other religion. Shah Jahan himself was an orthodox muslim from a young  age. That was more to do with his being adopted and brought up by  Ruqaiah Begum, Akbars first wife than his own parents Jodha Bai and  Prince Salim. Akbar had handed over Prince Khurram aka Shah jahan to  Ruqqaiah for upbringing as a 4 days old baby. Only later on in his life  in his mid 40s did Shah Jahan become liberal and allowed Diwali and Holi  celebrations in Delhi fort. The change occurred because Dara Sukoh  showed inclination towards Hinduism and Sufism and even Sikhism.  And  Shah Jahan’s favourite son was Dara Sukoh, so father just had to become  more liberal to accomdate his loving sons interest in Hindu religion and  Sufism. Otherwise for most of his life even Shah Jahan remained  orthodox muslim rather than a follower of many religions like his father  Jehangir or grandfather Akbar.

Jehangir was born to a Rajputh Princess Hira Kunwari.  Although he  practiced Islam and to some extent  Din e Illahi his fathers Akbars  religion, he had no issues in participating in various other religious  practices or going to their temples. The British felt he was an aethist  because he had Jesus and Mary pictures in his bedroom and also had  Persian version of Bhagvad Gita in his bed room.  Thomas Roe felt he was  an muslim when required and hindu other times. Willam Finch wote that  he was a Christian sometimes.  Some felt he was a Jain other times  because he loved to hold discussions with Jadrup Gosain the jain muni in  his ant mound(in forest). Jehangir celebrated holi, diwali, raksha  bandhan and duseerha in agra fort. He also celebrated Christmas and  Easter with Christians in court and visited churches in Delh, Lahore and  agra. He celebrated the Parsee festival of nauroz with fervour in his  palace.  He was multi religious in celebrating various religious  functions in his palace. Indeed he was so impressed with Jainism as a  religion that he converted to Jainism and called himself jagat guru and  his chief consort Jodha Bai as Jagat Gosain.  Although converting to  Jainism did not stop him from following Islam and hindu rituals and  celebrating various religion  festivities.  Basically all the  ambassadors of other countries and his courters were confused which  religion he practiced or belonged to.