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

too. Although acceptance of any high office under a Hindu ruler was no
more considered contrary to the Muslim religious law, the staunch
moulanas and moulavis, however, looked upon such acts as necessary
exceptions and bore a secret grudge in their hearts that they were time
bombs laid under the Muslim political power! Never from the very
beginning, did the Hindus consider it contrary to their religious code to fight
in the Muslim army on the side of the Muslims! It was only the exchange of
food and women in marriage with the Muslims which endangered the
sanctity of their religion! How foolish and suicidal to think so!
786A. This Hindu Emperor did not rest with the mere declaration of his
adherence to Hinduism, but he fearlessly began to bring it into action in the
presence of the Muslims. Idols of Hindu gods and goddesses were
immediately installed in the holiest of places of Muslim civilization, the
Diwan-i-Aam and Diwan-i-Khas in the royal palaces of Delhi. All the
worships and all the religious rites in royal palaces began to be performed
according to the Hindu ritual. Loud chanting of Hindu mantras and singing
of Hindu devotional songs took the place of the ‘Ayats’ in the Koran! This
Hindu Emperor himself and the hundreds amongst his old Hindu battalions,
who had remained Hindus from the beginning and who were guarding the
royal palace, paid scrupulous attention to the protection and proper worship
of these new idols of Hindu gods and goddesses. The enthusiasm and
vigour of the Hindu citizens and especially of the Hindu soldiers in the
capital knew no bounds! Just as formerly the aggressive Muslims
completely demolished the godly idols in the Hindu temples and turned
them into Muslim masjids immediately after they conquered any Hindu
capital, so did these counter-revolutionary Hindus install new images of
their gods in every masjid as a retaliatory measure, and most ceremoniously
converted the masjids into Hindu temples and filled them with loud
chanting of mantras. It is only by this counter-attack of the Hindu Parias
that the fanatic Muslims could ever have had any idea of the pangs of
humiliation and grief that might have rankled in the hearts of the Hindu
community, which had grown feeble because of their malady of religious
tolerance, when the Muslims polluted the Hindu temples by cow-slaughter
and turned them into masjids.
787. It might be true that in the heat and excitement of this unheard of and
unprecedented religious revolution, the Muslim scriptures, some Muslim
writers charge, might have been exposed to ridicule or shame. But at least