Thread by @Aabhas24

1/n Thread

While historians like Yusuf Ansari keep normalising Muslim Invasions Primary sources keep reminding us of atrocities.

Let’s check a few.

Qazi Mughisuddin's reply to Sultan Alauddin Khalji when he asks how to treat Hindus?

2/n Alauddin: "How are Hindus designated in the law, as payers of tributes or givers of tribute?

Qazi Mughisuddin: “They are called payers of tribute, & when the revenue officer demands silver from them, they should tender gold.

3/n If the officer throws dirt into their mouths, they must without reluctance open their mouths to receive it. By doing so they show their respect for the officer. The due subordination of the zimmi is exhibited in this humble payment & by this throwing of dirt in their mouths.

4/n The glorification of Islam is a duty, and contempt of the Religion is vain. God holds them in contempt, for he says, ‘keep them under in subjection.’ To keep the Hindus in abasement is especially a religious duty, because they are the most inveterate enemies of the Prophet,

5/n and because the Prophet has commanded us to slay them, plunder them, & make them captive, saying, 'Convert them to Islam or kill them, enslave them & spoil their wealth & property.'

6/n No doctor but the great doctor (Hanifa), to whose school we belong, has assented to the imposition of the jizya (poll tax) on Hindus. Doctors of other schools allow no other alternative but 'Death or Islam.’”

Source: Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi, of Ziauddin Barani (snippet in 2/n)

7/n So indeed as the Islamic Law as they (including Alauddin ) knew,Hindus were to be dominated, killed if not converted or made to pay Jizya.

There was absolute contempt for Hindus & they saw it as religious duty as dictated by the Prophet Md (pbuh).

snippet of 2/n again.

8/n He is so clear that Hanafi School is so generous that it lets Hindus escape death by paying Jizya.

Disgusting Muslim Invaders. I remember, once even @Javedakhtarjadu was praising this Khalji during debate with @TarekFatah

9/n Lets look further into the conversation between Qazi and Alauddin which goes more interesting.

I have put snippet from same source.

Here Khalji makes it clear that Hindus can't be dominated until they are made poor and his all attempts lies in doing so.

10/n Khalji:"(...)be assured then that the Hindus will never become submissive & obedient till they are reduced to poverty. I have(..)given orders that just sufficient shall be left to them(...)they shall not be allowed to accumulate hoards & property."
Full part in snippet above

11/n And the likes of Yusuf Ahmad Ansari would say that Khalji was a great economic reformer because of whom even Hindus grew bounds and leaps.

It is so disgusting that they are leading the academic realms.

12/n Ahmad al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī, the Hanafi jurist from Naqshbandī #Sufi order wrote a letter Shaikh Farid

(he was opposed to Akbar’s religious policy, & supported Jahangir’s accession after latter promised that Islam will be upheld in the new reign).

Letter's content:

13/n "(...)The abolition of jizya in Hindustan is a result of friendship which (Hindus)have acquired with the rulers of this land(…)What right have the rulers to stop exacting jizya?Allah himself has commanded imposition of jizyah for their (infidels) humiliation & degradation.

What is required is their disgrace, and the prestige and power of Muslims. The slaughter of non-Muslims means gain for Islam(...)"

Source: Maktubat-i-Imam Rabbani, Volume I

14/n Let us see some more of words of great Hanafi Jurist and Sufi Ahmad al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī.

Mind you, Lokesh Jindal keep crying that Hanafi school is not like what @ARanganathan72 portrays the "Deen" to be.

15/n "Fighting the unbelievers and treating them harshly is one of the requirements of religion.”

Whenever a Jew is killed it is to the benefit of Islam.”

“The honor of Islam is in the degradation of unbelief and the people of unbelief.”

16/n “The original aim of taking the jizya from (unbelievers)is for their degradation and this degradation (ought to be)to the extent that they cannot wear nice clothing for fear of the jizya(...)& that they are always fearful and trembling (...)”

Source: google.co.in/books/edition/…

17/n In the book mentioned above Harry S Neale has cited the primary sources.

Now look at this other excerpt from a letter written by Ahmad Sirhindi to Murtaza Khan on the execution of Guru Arjan.

Source: Maktubat-i Imam-i Rabbani, letter No. 193

18/n "These days the accursed infidel of Gobindwal was very fortunately killed. It is a cause of great defeat for the reprobate Hindus. With whatever intention and purpose they are killed – the humiliation of infidels is for Muslims, life itself.

19/n Before this Kafir (Infidel) was killed, I had seen in a dream that the Emperor of the day had destroyed the crown of the head of Shirk or infidelity. It is true that this infidel (Guru Arjun) was the chief of the infidels and a leader of the Kafirs.

20/n The object of levying Jizya on them is to humiliate and insult the Kafirs, and Jihad against them and hostility towards them are the necessities of the Mohammedan faith."

Such were opinion of #Sufi Sirhindi