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

women and men, and to massacre others, to burn, devastate and demolish
the Hindu capital cities, their temples, the idols of their Gods, to reduce to
ashes their libraries of religious books and do all sorts of wrongs to them
were all the ‘holy acts’ of the Muslim Gazis—the defenders of the Muslim
faith! All these ‘holy’ acts were done to chastise the kafirs strictly
according to the Muslim religious and ethical code, for their inexcusable
(unpardonable) sin of being kafirs! When the kafirs call these holy acts
atrocities, they must be plainly told that they were not atrocities at all!
They were all righteous and virtuous acts! It is the bounden duty of every
faithful follower of Islam, that he must thus chastise the kafirs whenever,
and to whatever extent, he might be able to do so.
913. “But for the Hindus to call our religious chastisement atrocities and
to retaliate against our holy religion as a reaction against our so-called
cruelties, to burn our pure masjids because we have burned their temples—
it is simply diabolic!—atrocious in the extreme!”
914. It is because the Muslims had this perverted conception of their
religious duty that they marched upon Vijaynagar primarily as it was a
Hindu State, and as the Hindus stubbornly refused to become Muslims.
Even if the Vijaynagar armies had not invaded the Bahamani Muslim
States, as they often did, and even if they had not retaliated with equal
vehemence against the usual Muslim atrocities by burning their masjids
and houses and plundering their property, all the Muslim Sultans would
have attacked Vijaynagar Hindus simply for their fault of being Hindus.
They would have committed the same inhuman atrocities, even if the
Hindus of Vijaynagar had not done them any harm, had they but got an
opportunity to do so!
Why did the Muslim Armies go back after the Pillage of Vijaynagar?
915. The underlying reason why the Muslim armies drew back after
pillaging Vijaynagar and did not pursue the fleeing Hindus is that they
dared not do so; for the state of Vijaynagar had broken away from the old
Hindu tradition of meek submission and tight-lipped endurance and had
begun to reciprocate atrocities with counter-atrocities and reprisals with
super-reprisals!
916. As has already been told above, Ramrai’s brother, Commander
Tirumalrai, had already left Vijaynagar with his army into the South and
was re-forming his forces for another knock. Had the Muslims advanced
further they were bound to meet with strong opposition from Tirumal’s