JIHAD BY ARAB MUSLIMS (638 - 980) While the Muslims invaded Persia in 634, they invaded Sindh in India on the orders of Umar, the second Muslim Khalifa in 638. But while Persia succumbed in seventeen years by 651, Muslims took seven hundred years to overrun India (today Sindh is a part of Pakistan that was carved out of Hindu India in 1947). And even after that they could not rule India in peace. Although the Arab Muslims on the orders of Caliph Umar, attacked India in 638, they were repeatedly defeated by the Rajas of Makara (Makran) and Sindh. Muslims ultimately captured the Fort of Deval (Debal near modern Karachi) by deceit, by kidnapping the three children of the chief guardsman of the fort of Debal, beheading one and threatening to behead the other two. With this blackmail, they forced him to leave one of the secret trap doors open, after they had feigned retreat. Due to this betrayal, the Muslims could finally sink their ugly claws into India under Mohammed-ibn-Qasim. The Hindus never forgot this treachery and eventually learnt from it. In this treacherous attack, the Muslims kidnapped two princesses of the King Dahirsen (Raja Dabir) of Debal. Qasim sent them as captives to the Khilafa (Caliph), as a gift with a message that they were royal virgins, meant to be ravished by the Caliph himself. But these princesses outsmarted the Caliph. The two princesses tore apart their hymen with their own hands and told the caliph that their modesty had already been violated by Qasim. The Caliph did not believe them, but when he saw for himself the ruptured hymens, he was convinced that Qasim had violated the modesty of the princesses and then sent them over to him. The thought that Qasim had fooled him so enraged the lecherous Caliph that he summoned Qasim to present himself at Baghdad. With Qasim in chains, the Caliph accused him of betrayal. Although Qasim pleaded his innocence, the Caliph, asked for Qasim to be locked in a barrel with nails stuck on the inside and had him rolled down a hill. Qasim died a cruel but a well deserved death. After Sindh, Muslims attacked Punjab, but were repulsed, then they attacked Rajputana, but were repulsed by Kings like Raja Bhoj, and when they attacked Gujarat, they were defeated by the Chalukyas (Solankis) of Anahilwada at the battle of Mount Arbuda (Abu). Thus the Muslims could not make any headway into India from their occupation of Sindh in 715, up to 980.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:05:53 +0000
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