6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

174 SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY
he had the masjids—the masjids of those Muslims who had
reduced to mere rubble, not only the temple of Somnath, but
hundreds of other temples in Gujrat and thousands in other
parts of India—rebuilt at the cost of the Hindus and offered
them a special protection according to his Hindu creed of
religious tolerance and generosity !
438. Was it ever possible for the Hindus under Mahmud
of Ghazni, or Muhammad Ghori or for those in the domain of
the Sultan who had gone on killing the Hindus and ravaging
their lands—was it ever possible for them to complain to any
Muslim governor of the land against the destruction of their
own temples ? (Let alone the appeal for the restoration of
such a demolished temple !) To complain in such a way
would itself have amounted to a viery grave offence of the
Kafirs, according to the Muslim religious code, and for this
very offence every one of the Hindu men and women would
have been sold in Kabul or Kandhar as wretched slaves.
But such treacherous and dangerous Muslims were allowed
by the Hindu kings to live in large colonies and were treated
with special honour in order to bolster up their creed of
religious tolerance. And in thousands of cases during the
long period of Hindu-Muslim war, these very minority
Muslims who had been living as refugees in the Hindu states
never failed to rebel or sabotage the Hindu war-efforts as
soon as there was any foreign Muslim invasion. Even while
they were seeing all these treacherous activities of the
Muslims, the Hindu kings went on practising, and commit­
ting to their memory, the precepts of religious tolerance and
large-heartedness in utter disregard of the proper place, time
or person and, of course, they fell as miserable victims. This
is verily the distortion of virtue itself !
THE GRAVE DANGER OF THE MUSLIM
ABDUCTION AND POLLUTION OF MILLIONS
OF HINDU WOMEN
439. One side-issue of the Muslim religious aggression,
which caused a continuous drain on the numerical superiority