Inferno that Max Muller spoke of
Sept 2002
Now I realize that I knew practically nothing of Islam for 50 years of my life. I went inside the mosque at Sharjah and sat for prayer with my driver Malik (a Pakistani national) and I ate in the same huge plate with Hamoud (a Tanzanian-Omani national) at Sohar with his friends and relatives after attending his relative’s death ceremony and a visit to mosque with them. I did all this with due respect to another religion.
Until recently I had remained under the mistaken belief that all religions are equal, they all advocate love and peace, and I thought, if there were any deviations, it were because people did not follow their religion properly. I was in for real-time surprise when I learnt that truth could be very opposite, that a religion teaches hatred and enmity, and if there is any deviation it is because people did not follow its hatred filled teachings properly. We will not speak empty words; we will quote from scriptures of Islam and from records maintained by historians of Islam and let you be the judge.
Lecturing at Cambridge University in 1882 Max Muller had said:
“When you read the atrocities committed by the Mohammedan conquerors of India … to my mind, is how any nation could have survived such an inferno, without being turned into devils themselves. As to modern times, and I date them from about 1000 after Christ, I can only say that, after reading the accounts of the terrors and horrors of Mohammedan rule, my wonder is that so much of native virtue and truthfulness should have survived. You might as well expect a mouse to speak the truth before a cat, as a Hindu before a Mohammedan judge. If you frighten a child, that child will tell a lie – if you terrorize millions, you must not be surprised if they try to escape from your fangs. Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our life – and happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very childhood. It may be easy enough in our days, and in a free country, like England, never to tell a lie – but the older we grow, the harder we find it to be always true, to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Islamic Evidence of Suppressed Historical Facts
Suppressed Historical Facts – Islamic Evidence presented below is from the book of Dr. Arun Shourie. He presented these and much more exposing history rewriting, on purpose, by Prof. Satish Chandra and others who assure Grade 11 students that “Despite the pressure of a section of the orthodox theologians this policy of broad toleration was maintained during the Sultanate.”
Let us see a few examples of what Prof. Satish Chandra hides under beautifully worded “Broad Policy of Toleration”. This is a live example of their attempt to whitewash Islamic history and with that as we will see later, their attempt to blacken Hindu history on purpose. Throughout this book we will see ample evidence of politicized scholarship and academic frauds of different kinds and of different magnitude carried out by these eminent historians of close-knit Marxist-Muslim combine.
1. Sultan Shamsu’d-Din Altutmish (AD 1210-1236)
“…He uprooted the statue of Bikramajit together with all other statues and images…and brought them to the capital where they were laid before the Jami’ Masjid for being trodden under foot by the people.”
[Source: Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi of Yahya bin Ahmad bin Abdu’llah Sirhindi with reports to the same effect in Tabqat-i-Akbari, in Muntakhabu’t-Tawarikh and in Tarikh-I-Firuz Shahi]
2. Sultan Jalalu’d-Din Khalji (AD 1290-1296)
Jhain (North-Western State of Rajasthan): "In the year AH 689 (AD 1290), the Sultan led an army to Ranthambhor…He took…Jhain, destroyed the idol-temples and broke and burned the idols.."
Vidisha (Central State of Madhya Pradesh): “…The idols were laid before the Badaaun gate for true believers to tread upon…”
[Source: Tarikh-I-Firuz Shahi of Ziau’d-Din Barani (b.1285-86) with reports to the same effect in Nizamu’d-Din Ahmad bin Muhammad Muquim al-Harbi and in Tabaquat-I-Akbari]
3. Sultan Alau’d-Din Khalji (AD 1296-1316) Somnath (Mid-Western State of Gujarat):
“…And the idol…was carried to Delhi where it was laid for people to tread upon”
[Source: Tarikh-I-Firuz Shahi with reports to the same effect in Tabaquat-I-Akbari and Mulla Abdul Quadir Badauni’s Muntakhabu’t-Tawarikh, the latter also mentions that at the site of the temple a mosque was constructed]
As we see above they all considered it a matter of pride that Hindu gods must be walked over by Muslims. These are not the accounts of hostile historians of later years. These are the documented records of those days and by their own historians. They also do not fail to mention that Hindu temples were broken and Muslim mosques were raised in their place. Today there is so much attempt by these Marxist-Muslim combine that there existed no Raam Temple at Ayodhya before Babri Mosque despite huge amount of archeological evidences available, which our elite Courts of Justice refuse to look at. We will present evidence of all those in this book itself.
4. Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (AD 1351-1388)
Puri (Mid-Eastern State of Orissa): “…There was a stone idol which infidels called Jagannaath…. Sultan Firoz, in emulation of Mahmud Subuktigin, having rooted up the idol, carried it away to Delhi where he placed it in an ignominious position…”
Jajnagar (Mid-Eastern State of Orissa): “…Victorious standards set out…destruction of idols, slaughter of the enemies of Islam…wherever there were temples and idols in that area, they were trampled under the hoofs of the horses of Mussalmaan…”
[Source: Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi of Shamsu’d-Din bin Siraju’d-Din, a courtier of Firuz Shah]
“Allah, who is the only true God and has no other emanation, endowed the king of Islam with the strength to destroy this ancient shrine on the eastern seacoast and to plunge it into the sea and after its destruction, he ordered the nose of Jagannaath to be perforated and disgraced it by casting it down to the ground. They dug out other idols…for being laid in front of the mosques…and stretched them in front of the portals of every mosque, so that the body and the side of images may be trampled at the time of ascent and descent, entrance and exit, by the shoes on the feet of the Muslims.”
[Source: Sirat-Firuz Shahi] Now let us see what Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq himself writes about his noble deeds.
These are from his memoirs not from another historian’s records. There is so much evidence around and these eminent historians of Marxist-Muslim combine want to ignore them and fabricate their own version of history. In Futuhat-i-Firuz Shahi written by Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq himself, he records how he decreed that…idol-temples had been demolished and mosques and pulpit built and exalted…On the steps he took for erasing idolatry in Delhi and its surroundings, Sultan Firuz Shah records:
“The Hindus and idol-worshippers had agreed to pay the money for toleration (zar-i-zimmiya) and had consented to the poll tax (jizya) in return for which they and their families enjoyed security… [Note: It sounds like Hindus lived in a Mafia State goverend by Muslims!] Under divine guidance I destroyed these edifices and I killed those leaders of infidelity…until this abuse was entirely abolished. Their women and children also went out in palanquins and carts. There they assembled in thousands and performed idol-worship…when intelligence of this came to my ears my religious feelings prompted me at once to put a stop to this scandal and offence to the religion of Islam. On the day of the assembly I went there in person and I ordered…put to death…I destroyed their idol-temples and instead thereof raised mosques…where infidels and idolaters worshipped idols, Mussalmaan now, by God’s mercy, perform their devotions to the true God…I sent some persons there to destroy the idol temple and put a stop to their pernicious incitements to error.”
About neighboring Gohana, Firuz Shah narrates:
Gohana (Northern State of Haryana): “Some Hindus had erected a new idol-temple in the village of Kohana…I ordered that…put to death… I also ordered that the infidel books, the idols…publicly burnt…no zimmi could follow such wicked practices in a Mussalmaan country.”
The point may be noted here that Sultan Firoz Shah himself records that he considered it a matter of religious dictate that he should destroy Hindu places of worship and kill Hindus for he documents that he did it all under divine guidance. This is all about Jihad but today they have fabricated a new definition of Jihad, which is to fight against inner evils. But as we will proceed through the pages of this book we will see that those who are promoting this new-found definition have no real desire to follow it, instead they are busy in engaging themselves in more of evil. Adharm, indeed, manifests itself in many ways and being aware of the need to recognize and resist such adharm is the need of hour for which Arjun must rise to the occasion.
In his Tarikh-i-Firishta, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Firishta gives an account of Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq at Nagarkot, Kangra in Himachal Pradesh:
“…Name of Nagarkot…changed to that of Mahomedabad…broke the idols of Nagarkot, and mixing the fragments with pieces of cow’s flesh, filled bags with them and caused them to be tied round the necks of Braahmans…he sent the image of Nowshaba to Mecca, to be thrown on the road, that it might be trodden under foot by pilgrims…”
They knew it very well the reverence amongst Hindus for cow and yet they did it because they wanted to humiliate Hindus and Hinduism. They were not here to conquer the nation; they were here to eliminate Hinduism from the face of the earth. The same thing these Marxist-Muslim combine eminent historians have been doing for past many years but in a very subtle and cunning manner that will gradually open up as we reach the chapter on Vedic time Hindus eating Beef towards the end of this book. We also see that they took Hindu god images to Mecca in Saudi Arabia and threw them on road so that Muslim pilgrims for Hajj can crush them under their foot. This is not human civilization that we are speaking of but aasuric culture.
5. Sultan Alau’d-Din Mujahid Shah Bahmani (AD 1375-1378)
Vijay Nagar (South-Western State of Karnataka): “…He broke down many temples of idolaters and laid waste the country…after which he hastened to Beejanuggur…on which stood a temple…it was much venerated by the Hindoos…the King considering its destruction a religious obligation ascended to the hill and having razed the edifice…”
[Source: Tarikh-i-Firishta]
As the historian records, the Sultan considered it his religious obligation. This is not fiction. We will see later in this book what Quran says about it and what live examples Prophet Mohammed himself left to his followers.
6. Sultan Nasiru’d-Din Mahmud Shah Tughlaq (AD 1389-1412)
“…Got founded a city named Muhammadabad…at a place known as Kalpi which was a home of accursed infidels and he got mosques raised in place of temples for the worship of Allah.
[Source: Tarikh-i-Muhammadi of Muhammad Bihamad Khani]
7. Sultan Ahmad Shah I Wali Bahmani (AD 1422-1435)
Vijay Nagar (South-Western State of Karnataka): “…Wherever he went put to death men, women and children, without mercy, contrary to the contract made between his uncle and predecessor Mahomed Shah and the Rays of Beejanuggur. Whenever the number of slain amounted to twenty thousands he halted three days and made a festival celebration of the bloody event. He broke down, also, the idolatrous temples and destroyed the colleges of Braahmans. During these operations, a body of five thousand Hindoos, urged by desperation at the destruction of their religious buildings and at the insults offered to their deities, united in taking an oath to sacrifice their lives in an attempt to kill the king, as the author of all their sufferings”
[Source: Tarikh-i-Firishta]
Look at the religious fanaticism where a contract has no value and where human lives have none at all. They were not killing Hindu soldiers but Hindu civilians, old men, women, children, and they were celebrating the occasion as the count reached 20,000. This is Prof. Satish Chandra’s “policy of broad toleration”. Academicians can also turn liars, is something we must learn from these exemplary historians of eminence and we will see enough examples as we proceed. The beauty is that these are the people whom we respected. We must not forget that when we worship false virtues we turn to adopt those false virtues and imbibe them in our life, thoughts and action.
8. Sultan Mahmud Khalji of Malwa (AD 1436-1469)
Chittaurgarh (North-Western State of Rajasthan): “…He started laying waste the country…he started constructing mosques after demolishing temples…
[Source: Tabqat-i-Akbari]
9. Sultan Mahmud bin Ibrahim Sharqi (AD 1440-1457)
“…To Orissa with intention of jihad…and laid them waste, and destroyed the temples after demolishing them…
[Source: Tabqat-i-Akbari]
10. Sultan Muhammad Shah II Bahmani (AD 1463-1482)
Komdapalli (South-Eastern State of Andhra Pradesh): “The king having gone to view the fort, broke down the idolatrous temple and killed some Braahmans, who officiated at it, with his own hands, as a point of religion. He then gave orders for a mosque to be erected on the foundation of the temple… Khwaja Mahmood Gawan now represented, that as his majesty had slain some infidels with his own hands, he might fairly assume the title of Ghazy, an appellation of which he was very proud. Mahmood Shah was the first of his race who had slain a Braahman…”
[Source: Tarikh-i-Firishta]
Here we see the incentive to sultans for slaying Hindu priests with his own hands for it entitles them the honorable Islamic title of Ghazy. For 50 years of my life I have never known that a religion can ask humans to become barbarians.
11. Sultan Sikandar Lodi (AD 1489-1517)
“Sultan Sikandar led a very pious life…Islam was regarded very highly in his reign. The infidels could not muster the courage to worship idols or bathe in the (sacred) streams. During his holy reigns idols were hidden underground. The stone (idol) of Nagarkot, which had misled the (whole) world, was brought and handed over to butchers so that they might weigh meat with it.”
[Source: Ahmad Yadgar’s Tarikh-i-Shahi]
So now we learn a new definition of religious piousness. A person is pious if he uses Hindu god images for weighing animal meat. How much more examples do we need for aasuric culture?
Mathura, the birthplace of Shri Krishn: “He got the temples of infidels destroyed. No trace of infidelity was left at the place in Mathura where the infidels used to take bath…if a Hindu went there for bathing even by mistake he was made to lose his limbs and punished severely.”
[Source: Shykh Rizqu’llah Mushtaqi’s Waqiat-i-Mushtaqi]
Mandrail (Central State of Madhya Pradesh): “The Sultan got the temples demolished and mosques erected in their stead…and then…he led an expedition towards the fort of Udit Nagar…he got the temples demolished and mosques constructed in their stead…”
[Source: Tabqat-i-Akbari]
Mathura (Birthplace of Shri Krishn) Mathura (Northern State of Uttar Pradesh): “He was so zealous a Mussalmaan that he utterly destroyed diverse places of worship of the infidels and left not a vestige remaining of them. He entirely ruined the shrines of Mathura, the mine of heathenism…their stone images were given to the butchers to serve them as meat-weight, and all the Hindus in Mathura were strictly prohibited from shaving their heads and beards, and performing their ablutions…
And then at Dholpur (Madhya Pradesh): …Erected a mosque on the site of an idol-temple…”
[Source: Abu’llah’s Tarikh-i-Da’udi]
Oxford Dictionary describes, “Heathen as a chiefly derogatory term, a person who does not belong to a widely held religion (especially one who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim) as regarded by those who do.”
This means at one side we have heathens like Hindus and on the other side we have great religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Thus, on one side we have Surs and on the other side we have Asurs for, if we know about Christianity’s barbaric activities in the name of Inquisition we will understand well of their character hidden to Indians. Of Judaism I do not know much except that I read extreme hatred filled teachings of Moses in Deuteronomy 12.2; 13.6,8,9; 32.24-25.
[Note: later I studied Judaism and wrote well acclaimed book 2004 Judaism Christianity Islam Secularism Hinduism]
12. Babur, Ghazi (AD 1525-30)
“For Islam’s sake, I wandered in the wild, prepared for war with unbelievers and Hindus, resolved myself to meet a martyr’s death, Thanks be to Allah! A ghazi I became.”
[Source: Mrs. A. S. Beveridge reproduces from Tarikh-i-Babari in her book Babar Nama, Delhi 1970 reprint, p.574-575, as reproduced by Dr. Koenraad Elst]
Here we see Babur documenting in his memoir that he did it meaning as mujahid, though it is often used in the more precise sense of one who has effectively killed infidels with his own hands.
Oxford Dictionary describes “Babur (1483-1530), first Mogul emperor of India c.1525-30, descendant of Tamerlane; born Zahir ad-Din Muhammad. He invaded India c.1525 and conquered the territory from Oxus to Patna.”
13. Akbar Jalalu’d-Din Muhammad Akbar Padshah Ghazi (AD 1556-1605)
“And black cows, to the number of 200, to which they pay boundless respect, and actually worship, and present to the temple, which they look upon as an asylum, and let loose there, were killed by the Mussalmaan…through their zeal and intense hatred of idolatry they filled their shoes full of blood and threw it on the doors and walls of the temple…”
[Source: Muntakhabu’t-Tawarikh]
Is it not interesting that Akbar of whom we read so many laurels in our history books happened to have carried the honorable Islamic title of Ghazy, which he could only have acquired by slaying Hindus with his own hands and particularly Hindu priests? As his historian records he got 200 cows killed and had cow blood filled shoes thrown at Hindu temples.
Oxford Dictionary describes “Akbar Jalaludin Muhammad (1542-1605), Mogul Emperor of India 1556-1605, known as Akbar the Great. Akbar expanded the Mogul empire to incorporate northern India and established an efficient but enlightened administration.”
So we now know how great people work.
Sita Ram Goel records: “Mahmud of Ghazni robbed and burnt 1,000 temples at Mathura and 10,000 in and around Kannauj. One of his successors, Ibrahim, demolished 1,000 temples each in Hindustan (Ganga-Yamuna Doab) and Malwa. Muhammad Ghuri destroyed another 1,000 at Varanasi. Qutbu’d-Din Aibak employed elephants for pulling down 1,000 temples in Delhi. Ali I Adil Shah of Bijapur destroyed 200 to 300 temples in Karnataka. A Sufi, Qayim Shah, destroyed 12 temples at Tiruchirapalli. Such exact or approximate counts, however, available only in few cases. Most of the time we are informed: Many strong temples which would have remained unshaken even by the trumpets blown on the Day of Judgment were leveled with the ground when swept by the winds of Islam.”
Having presented voluminous evidence about the destruction of temples, Sita Ram Goel remarks:
“Starting with Al-Biladhuri who wrote in Arabic in the second half of the ninth century, and coming down to Syed Mahmudul Hasan who wrote in English in the fourth decade of the twentieth, we have cited from 80 histories spanning a period of more than 1,200 years. Our citations mention 61 kings, 63 military commanders and 14 Sufis who destroyed Hindu temples in 154 localities, big and small, spread from Khurasan in the West to Tripura in the East, and from Transoxiana in the North to Tamil Nadu in the South, over a period of 1,100 years. In most cases the destruction of temples was followed by erection of mosques, madrasas and khanquahs, etc., on the temple sites and, frequently, with temple materials. Allah was thanked every time for enabling the iconoclast concerned to render service to the religion of Muhammad by means of this pious performance.”
“In an entire chapter – Chapter 16 of his book – Goel recalls instances after instances set out with great pride by the biographers of the Prophet, describing the destruction of temples by the Prophet himself. What the Prophet did, is by definition the Sunnah – along with Quran, it is one of the two principal sources in accordance with which every believer must order his conduct… In a word, what was done was no fortuitous ‘error’,” writes Dr. Shourie.
Oxford Dictionary describes Sunna as the traditional portion of the Muslim law based on Muhammad’s words and acts, accepted (together with the Koran) as authoritative by Muslims.
“Allah had decreed that the houses of worship of other religions be destroyed. The Prophet had carried out the command at every occasion on which it had been necessary and prudent to do so. And, what the Prophet did is the Sunnah, which, along with the Quran, is the model on which believers are to order their conduct. That is what these rulers, invaders, and ‘saints’ did. That is what they and their historians said they were doing. And that is precisely what our eminent historians conceal,” writes Dr. Shourie.
Examples presented above happen to be only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Aurangzeb and his deeds will need many more pages and there are other notorious ones whose names have not featured here. Shourie exposes large-scale history rewriting by a close-knit group of several eminent historians on purpose. We will later see what the game plan of these historians was. Shourie picks-up factual data from the meticulous and unimpeachable study by Sita Ram Goel presented in Hindu Temples, What happened to them, Volume II, The Islamic Evidence, 1991, 2000. Goel, well versed in several languages, painfully collected the data as recorded through centuries by many Mohammedan historians and few Sultans themselves wherever he was allowed access to such records.
What happened to Hindu Society?
These are glimpses only. The total story is much more frightening. We have seen a constant and consistent behavior pattern, not driven by whims and fancies of few individuals intoxicated by their power, but a mission called Jihad driven by an ideology, which sprang from the teachings of a religion.
We may recollect that Ktesias the famous Greek physician (404 BC) dedicated a whole chapter “On the justice of the Indians”. And now these very Indian Hindus saw themselves being subjected to inhumane abuse of justice.
We may recollect that Hiouen-thsang, the most famous of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims, who visited India in 7th century, wrote about Hindus: “With regard to riches, they never take anything unjustly.” Now these very Hindus saw their everything property, wealth, women and children, their right to worship and observe religious rites, all taken away from them unjustly.
If we turn to the accounts given by the Mohammedan conquerors of India, we find Idrisi, in his Geography (written in the 11th century), summing up their opinion of the Indians in the following words: “The Indians are naturally inclined to justice, and never depart from it in their actions.” These very Indians now found them constantly and consistently subjected to actions of those who had no inclination towards human justice.
In the 14th century we have Friar Jordanus, who goes out of his way to tell us that the people of Lesser India (South and Western India) are true in speech and eminent in justice. These people of South and Western India found themselves abused constantly and consistently by human injustice.
In the 15th century Kamal-eddin Abd-errazak Samarkandi (1413- 82), who went as ambassador of the Khakan to the prince of Kalikut and to the king of Vidyanagara (about 1440-45), bears testimony to the perfect security, which merchants enjoy in that country but now these very Hindus who ensured security of all foreigners found themselves totally insecure.
We have known of atrocities over Jews by Nazis in an intense manner within a relatively shorter time frame. We can now see here the replay of the same in slow motion spread over a much larger time frame. The objective of this work is only to give indications of what kind of an inferno that Hindus were placed in and therefore, we have chosen to present only a few glimpses thereof; we have avoided giving complete account thereof. However, these indications may be adequate to reflect at the kind of torture Hindus were subjected to on physical and psychological level.
A journey of this kind over a prolonged period of thousand years can easily destroy the morale of any race, erode their moral values, denigrate their self-esteem, and corrupt their social structure, if not eliminate them totally.
It was not so much their lack of military strength but more so their magnanimity that eventually caused the fall of Hindu States. Legends of Prithvi Raaj Chauhaan, Somnaath Temple and many others are testimony to that. Hindus were described in words of 7th century Chinese traveler Hiouen-thsang: “they make even excessive concessions”…in words of Abul Fazl, 16th century Minister of Emperor Akbar: “their soldiers know not what it is to fly from the field of battle”…in words of subsequent British Warren Hastings: “less prompted to vengeance for wrongs inflicted than any people on the face of the earth”.
There was another reason. India was very prosperous and the people were happy (impoverished and unhappy people cannot present the picture drawn by all those foreign visitors over the centuries). Being happy and prosperous they did not need to pursue warfare with a vengeance. They were only concerned about protecting themselves. Once the invaders were defeated they were allowed to go away. They came back with renewed zeal and vengeance. One of them continued seventeen times, seventeen invasions, finally to win; and another took Prithvi Raaj Chauhaan captive on second invasion, I vaguely recollect. That loss was disastrous for the Hindu state. May be it was not farsighted of those who allowed repeated invasions; one might argue that invaders ought to have been crushed and totally destroyed after defeat not leaving the invader capable of return.
On the other hand armies of Islam were not only at war with armies of Hindus, they were at war with all non-Muslims. After they defeated Hindu armies they slaughtered Hindu civilians disregard men-women-children, forcibly captured women, enslaved men and children, they destroyed their culture, heritage, looted their wealth; they were at war with the Hindu society as whole.
What happened to Hindu Women?
Hindu society hardened and made itself rigid enough to survive. In Hindu society, women were respected and they had enjoyed freedom but now it became necessary to place them under purda system as followed by Muslims except for use of burqua. It came out of necessity to protect their women folk from Mohammedan conquerors who were at liberty to take Hindu women by force and convert them into Islam and then marry them as four wives were allowed to each Muslim, and use of force for such purposes was endorsed by their religion.
We have the legend of Padmini, the beginning of Jauhar, which was a voluntary act by Padmini to save herself from Sultan Alau’d-Din Khalji. Later this assumed the shape of an involuntary Hindu custom Sati Prathaa to protect Hindu widows from forcible capture by Muslim powerful ones.
Few months ago I was told of a European impression that Hinduism had been oppressive of its women folk. Sure, this image would have been created by interest groups, who were either hostile to Hinduism or those who had to benefit by tarnishing the image of Hinduism, for Sir Thomas Munro wrote: “and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people – then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilization is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import cargo.”
Quotes from Quran and Hadis
Oxford Dictionary describes Akbar as Great. In schools we had been taught that he was Great but what we had not been told that he too held the title of Ghazi. When someone titled as Great could not resist the temptation to kill Hindu priests with his own hands only to earn the title of Ghazi, an honor in Islam, then what would be the case with lesser mortals than someone titled as Great! Such has been the extraordinary compulsion of religious dictates of Islam! Let us see what could have ignited such fervor.
Presented form the works of Dr. Koenraad Elst:
“Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion reigns supreme”. [Qur’an 2:193 and 8:39]
“Those who follow Mohammed are merciless to the unbelievers but kind to one another”. [Qur’an 48:29]
“Enmity and hate shall reign between us until ye believe in Allah alone”. [Qur’an 60:4]
Presented form the works of Dr. N. S. Rajaram:
“Surely the worst beasts in God’s sight are the unbelievers. O ye who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers and let them find in you harshness. Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender and pay tribute. Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush.” [Quran 9.123,29,5]
Presented form the works of Dr. Arun Shourie:
“Then, if they turn their backs, take them and slay them wherever you find them.” [Quran 4.91] This verse is in relation to those persons who, having accepted Islam went back to their traditional observances.
“Whosoever changes his Islamic religion kill him.” [Sahih Bukhari 84.57]
“The Prophet had them caught. He then ordered [Note: Prophet Mohammed commanded thus in respect of the members of the tribe Ukl, some of whom embraced Islam and then left Islam] their hands and legs to be cut off, their eyes to be branded with heated pieces of iron. He ordered that the cut hands and legs should not be cauterized so that they bleed to death. ‘And when they asked for water to drink’, records the Hadis, ‘they were not given water.’” [Sahih Bukhari 82.794-7 and Sahih Muslim 4130-7]
A Religion teaches Hatred and Enmity
This was most unfortunate revelation for until now I believed in the myth ‘mazhab nahi sikhaataa aapas me bair karnaa’ the popular song that I heard from my childhood days which meant ‘religion does not teach to hate each other’ and now I learnt that the very basis, the very foundation of this religion lied on hatred and enmity. Now I understand why in Muslim nations so often a person acquires power by killing the earlier one; we need not go far but look at our neighbors Bangladesh and Pakistan and simply peep into the history of Mohammedan rulers in India during medieval period. May be Quran preaches, “Those who follow Mohammed are merciless to the unbelievers but kind to one another” [Qur’an 48:29] but we cannot make the same individual inhumane and kind at the same time. Once the hatred goes into the psyche it is reflected all the time against unbelievers but it also instigates to kill believers in course of power struggle. Power struggle has been in the very essence of Islam where it promises after death the hoors of zannat (beautiful women of heaven) and before death the loot of war booty as reward to those who kill unbelievers.
It is then when I realized what was Aasuric culture in Hindu mythology. Asurs did not need to have horns on their head; all they needed was to have hatred in their heart, love for unjustly acquired power, passion for capturing other people’s women by force, and obsession for total destruction of those who were not one of them. Our thoughts and habits often reflect in the kind of company we keep. Hindu society could not have remained unaffected by constant company of a totally alien, hostile and inhumane ideology that enveloped this society for thousand years, not out of choice but out of compulsion. This was the most unfortunate period in the history of Hinduism; added by subsequent torturous Christian Inquisition in Goa, and after independence Marxist masterly manipulations in such a subtle manner that it is truly difficult to believe until exposed threadbare. Similarly, Muslims in India could not have remained unaffected by constant company of a highly tolerant and lovable Hindu culture of which non-fictional testimonies are available from foreign visitors to India through the course of 404 BC to as late as 18th-19th century as given in chapter 1 of this book. This is how we come to see many kind-hearted Muslims amongst us but somehow their clergy has such an obsessive hold on them that these kind-hearted people also succumb to hatred filled ideology of Islam.
Rise of Islam
Dr. Koenraad Elst writes:
“When Prophet Mohammed appeared on the scene, Arabia was a multicultural country endowed with pagan shrines, churches, synagogues and Zoroastrian firetemples. When he died all the non-Muslims had been converted, expelled or killed and their places of worship laid waste or turned into mosques. As he had ordered before his death, only one religion remained in Arabia.
The truly crucial event was Prophet’s entry into the Kaaba, the central shrine of Arabia’s native religion, where he and his nephew Ali smashed the 360 idols with their own hands. The Islamic account itself establishes that the model man Prophet Mohammed desecrated the Kaaba and forcibly turned it into a mosque, setting an example, particularly, for Mahmud Ghaznavi, Aurangzeb and the Taliban to emulate.
In reality, Mohammed’s conduct is the definitional standard of what it is to be a good Muslim. It is the contents of their religion, which makes them cross the line between their own goodness and the evil of their terrorist acts.
The problem is not Muslims the problem is Islam. One of the best-documented defects of any religion is the role of Islamic doctrine in the destruction of other people’s cultural treasures, rivaled only by Christianity in some of its phases, and surpassed only in the 20th century by communism.”
These comments of Dr. Koenraad Elst are worth taking note of.
Mr. Sita Ram Goel critically looks into the belief system that gave rise to such behavior pattern: “The evidence presented in this volume, from purely Islamic sources, show that the destruction of Hindu temples at the hands of Islamized invaders continued for more than eleven hundred years, from the middle of the seventh century to the end of the eighteenth.
It took place all over the vast cradle of Hindu culture, from Sin Kiang in the North to Tamil Nadu in the South, and from Seistan in the West to Assam in the East. All along, the iconoclasts remained convinced that they were putting into practice the highest tenets of their religion.
[Oxford Dictionary describes Iconoclast as a destroyer of images in religious worship in particular; in historical context a supporter of the 8th and the 9th century movement in the Byzantine Church, which sought to abolish the veneration of icons and other religious images – A puritan of the 16th or 17th century.]
They also saw to it that the record was kept of what they prized as a pious performance. The language of the record speaks for itself. It leaves no doubt that they took considerable pride in what they did.
It is inconceivable that a constant and consistent behavior pattern, witnessed for a long time and over a vast area, can be explained except in terms of a settled system of belief, which leaves no scope for second thought.
Looking at the very large number of temples, big and small, destroyed or desecrated or plundered or converted into Muslim monuments, economic or political explanations can be only a futile, if not fraudulent, exercise. The explanations are not even plausible.
In fact, it is not at all difficult to locate the system of belief, which inspired the behavior pattern. We have only to turn to the scriptures of Islam – the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet – and we run straight into what we are looking for. The principles and the pious precedents, which were practiced and followed by the subsequent swordsmen of Islam are, all of them, there.
The scriptures of Islam do not merely record what happened in the past; they also prescribe that what is recorded should be imitated by the faithful in the future, till the end of the time. That is why the swordsmen of Islam who functioned in times much later than that of the Qur’an and the Sunnah, did what they did. It is the very nature of the scriptures that they make permanent what can otherwise be dated and dismissed as temporary aberrations.
Those scriptures are still being taught in hundreds of maktabs and madrasa-s spread over the length and breadth of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Missionaries of Islam that are turned out by these institutions, year after year, are never told by their teachers that the prescription regarding other people’s places of worship stand abrogated or out of date.
At the same time, the swordsmen who destroyed innumerable temples and monasteries all over the vast cradle of Hindu culture retain their halos as the heroes of Islam. That alone can explain why Hindu temples become the first targets of attack whenever Muslim mobs are incited against the Hindus by the mullahs and politicians in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kashmir.
…On the other hand, the movement for the restoration of Hindu temples has got bogged down round the Raam Janm Bhoomi at Ayodhya. The more important question, namely, why Hindu temples met the fate they did at the hands of Islamic invaders, has not been whispered.
Hindu leaders have endorsed the Muslim propagandists in proclaiming that Islam does not permit the construction of mosque at other people’s places of worship. One wonder whether this kowtowing to Islam is prompted by ignorance, or cowardice, or calculation, or a combination of them all. The Islam of which Hindu leaders are talking exists neither in the Qur’an nor in the Sunnah of the Prophet. It is hoped that this volume will help in clearing the confusion.”
It is truly unfortunate that many Hindu leaders have also been responsible for supporting the untruth and denying the truth. They have their vested interest. In a kind of parliamentary system that India has, politicians find it in their interest to woo Muslim votes by denying the truth and by perpetrating untruth.
The values that Hindu society once enjoyed in ‘The Past’ are lost in its antiquity. Adharm has seeped in our system so deeply that it has eroded national values and corrupted the nation. Today, more than any other time, it has become necessary to recognize, resist and eliminate adharm or else, it will drown the entire society in it.
Understanding Islam through Hadis and Sunna
Here are the excerpts presented from the Web version of the works of Mr. Ram Swarup. His latest book, Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious Faith or Fanaticism [Exposition Press, Smithtown, New York] has played an important role in opening up Islam for discussion, hitherto a tabooed subject in India.
“In the language of the Muslim theologians, Islam is a ‘complete’ and ‘completed’ religion. It is equally political and military. It has much to do with statecraft and it has a very specific view of the world peopled by infidels. Since most of the world is still infidel, it is very important for those who are not Muslims to understand Islam.
The sources of Islam are two: the QurAn and the HadIs (Sayings or Traditions) usually called the Sunnah (customs), both having their center in Muhammad. The QurAn contains the Prophet’s ‘revelations’ (wahy); the HadIs, all that he did or said, or enjoined, forbade or did not forbid, approved or disapproved. …
Muslim theologians make no distinction between the QurAn and the HadIs. …To them, the HadIs is the QurAn in action, revelation made concrete in the life of the Prophet. In the QurAn, Allah speaks through Muhammad; in the Sunnah, He acts through him.
Muhammad’s life is a visible expression of Allah’s utterances in the QurAn. God provides the divine principle, Muhammad the living pattern. According to the QurAn, when Allah and His Apostle have decided a matter, the believer does not have his or her own choice in the matter (33:36).
The subjects that the HadIs treats are multiple and diverse. It gives the Prophet’s views of Allah, of the here and the hereafter, of hell and heaven, of the Last Day of Judgment, of ImAn (faith), salAt (prayer), zakAt (poor tax), sawm (fast), and hajj (pilgrimage), popularly known as religious subjects; but it also includes his pronouncements on jihAd (holy war), al-anfAl (war booty), and khums (the holy fifth); as well as on crime and punishment, on food, drink, clothing, and personal decoration, on hunting and sacrifices, on poets and soothsayers, on women and slaves, on gifts, inheritances, and dowries, on toilet, ablution, and bathing; on dreams, christening, and medicine, on vows and oaths and testaments, on images and pictures, on dogs, lizards, and ants.
Though the non-Muslim world is not as familiar with the Sunnah, or HadIs, as with the QurAn, the former even more than the latter is the most important single source of Islamic laws, precepts and practices. Ever since the lifetime of the Prophet, millions of Muslims have tried to imitate him in their dress, diet, hairstyle, sartorial fashions, toilet mores, and sexual and marital habits.
Whether one visits Arabia or Central Asia, India or Malaysia, one meets certain conformities, such as the veil, polygamy, ablution, and istinjA (abstersion of the private parts). These derive from the Sunnah, reinforced by the QurAn. All are accepted not as changing social usages but as divinely ordained forms, as categorical moral imperatives.
…Islam claims to have defined human thought and behavior for all time to come; it resists any change and it feels justified in imposing its beliefs and behavior patterns on others. This we find the HadIs literature most fitted to do. It gives a living picture of Islam at its source and of Islam in the making, providing an intimate view of the elements that constitute orthodox Islam in their pristine purity. Indeed, it is these very elements of Islam that Muslims find most fascinating and thus, motivated by a compulsive atavism they repeatedly appeal to them and revert to them…
We have chosen as our guide the SahIh Muslim, which has the advantage of being available in an English translation. Since most HadIs collections contain the same core material, this self-limitation is no great disadvantage. On the other hand, it fruitfully defines the field of our study and inquiry.
In the long ‘Book of Pilgrimage’ (KitAb al-Hajj), containing 583 traditions, there is not a single one that remotely suggests the idea of the ‘inner pilgrimage’ about which mystics speak so much.
Similarly, in the ‘Book of JihAd and Campaigns,’ comprising 180 traditions, there is hardly anything that would suggest the sentiment of jihAd’l-akbar, ‘the greater warfare’ directed against one’s own lower nature (nafs). Most of the discussion lacks inwardness.
The SahIh Muslim, like other HadIs collections, also gives very intimate glimpses of the life of the Prophet, an impressionistic view that makes him seem more a living, breathing person than the portrayals given in his more formal biographies. Here one comes to know him, not through his pompous deeds and thoughts, but through his more workaday ideas and actions. There is no makeup, no cosmetics, no posturing for posterity. The Prophet is caught as it were in the ordinary acts of his life - sleeping, eating, mating, praying, hating, and dispensing justice, planning expeditions and revenge against his enemies.
The picture that emerges is hardly flattering and one is left wondering why in the first instance it was reported at all, and whether, it was done by his admirers or enemies. One is also left to wonder how the believers, generation after generation, could have found this story so inspiring. The answer is that the believers are conditioned to look at the whole thing through the eyes of faith.
An infidel in his fundamental misguidance may find the Prophet rather sensual and cruel - and certainly many of the things he did do not conform to ordinary ideas of morality-but the believers look at the whole thing differently.
To them, morality derives from the Prophet’s actions. The moral is whatever he did. Morality does not determine the Prophet’s actions, but his actions determine and define morality. Muhammad’s acts were not ordinary acts; they were Allah’s own acts.
It was in this way and by this logic that Muhammad’s opinions became the dogmas of Islam and his personal habits and idiosyncrasies became moral imperatives: Allah’s commands for all believers in all ages and climes to follow.”
It is being followed till today. We have known what happened in Iran and then in Afghanistan. Now let us see what is happening in Kashmir, India. Here is a report by Times of India 25 December 2002 “Undersigned by an outfit called the Lashkare-Jabbar, the posters had appeared in a college in Rajouri town directing women to wear burquas and men to wear caps and grow beards in keeping with Islamic traditions. Muslim women were asked to desist from going to school and college, to have a male escort when leaving their homes and to sit apart from men in buses. The outfit…warned people against defying its diktat.”
Christian Inquisition
Besides Muslim atrocities, Christian Inquisition also played its role in torture of Hindus in Goa when Portuguese arrived in India. The torture story is very painful and it will occupy large space. Most Indians are unaware of it because school textbooks on history ignore it.
In India Christianity has been given a face-lift with considerable propaganda as a ‘religion of peace’. Certain section of media that has major presence laboriously works to promote this image. I had not known of inhumane tortures until I visited Italy last year and then located research work on Goa Inquisition.
The Inquisition has been described by New Oxford Dictionary as an ecclesiastical (church) tribunal established by Pope Gregory IX c.1232 for the suppression of heresy (dissent). It was active chiefly in northern Italy and southern France, becoming notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-instituted to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government. The same dictionary describes Heresy as the belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine.