भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

remain unmolested in return for the obligation of the Hindus—even if it
were to tantalize the Hindu gullibility and simplicity? No! The Muslim
armies battered the Temple to pieces once again, and outdid Mahumud of
Ghazni in taking away the sacred idol and the slab inside this temple to
Delhi and made them fit nicely into the pedestal for a masjid there.
434. Once again, when Hindu power was established in the region, Hindu
temples rose up and once more, the Muslims like Sultan Ahmed Shah,
ravaged the land with their usual religious ferocity and harassed the Hindus
there with wholesale massacres, rapes, arson and other incendiary activities.
Thousands of Hindus were taken prisoners and were sold as slaves in
foreign countries. Somnath remained a heap of rubble, but the notorious
masjid grew in importance. Besides the old masjids, which were preserved
and raised to greater glory by the Hindu rulers, the Muslim rulers built taller
and more spacious mosques.
435. It was this confused religious thought, the distorted sense of virtues
and the blind religious tolerance, that culminated in the religious suicide of
the Hindus. How many more incidents may one cite, which came off
century-after-century at every place right from Kashimir to Rameshwaram,
in the face of Muslim aggression? Still, one more instance may be narrated
here to show the perversion of another virtue by the Hindus; generosity—
misplaced genorosity!
435A. Siddharaj Jaysinh (1096-1143 A.D.) was a valiant king of
Anhilwad in Gujarat. He had also a very keen sense of justice. But he was a
Hindu king! He was deluded by the absolute values, without any regard to
time, place or person of all the virtuous ideologies about justice and
injustice, according to his own and the alien religion and especially
generosity and large-heartedness! Once during his reign, there was some
dispute between the Hindus and the Muslims near Cambay (Khambayat).
Writes Muhammad Ufi—himself a Muslim writer—in his book Jami‘-ul-
Hikayat.
436. “In the reign of King Jai Singh, there was a mosque and a minaret
from which the summons to prayers was cried out. The fire-worshipers
instigated an attack on the Musalmans, and the minaret was destroyed, the
mosque burnt down and eighty Musalmans were killed...” A certain
Muhammadan, a Khatib or a reader of the Khutba, by name Khatib ‘Ali’,
escaped and fled to Nahrwala. None of the courtiers of the Rai paid any
attention to him or rendered him any assistance. Having learnt that the Rai