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Islamic Jihadraised revolts. It has been noted already that Aurangzeb sent an army, predominantly consisting of Rajputs, tocrush the low-caste Jat rebels at Sinsani in 1690, in which 1,500 Jats were killed.About Hashmi’s assertion that Islam brought the Sufis—Amir Khasru, Nizamuddin Auliya andMoinuddin Chisti being prominent amongst them—to India, it could bear some credit if Muslim rulers hadbrought an epoc-making thinker like Aristotle, Isaac Newton or Albert Einsten. However, it is already notedhow Amir Khasrau, the allegedly great liberal Sufi poet, took sadistic delight in the destruction of Hindutemples and massacre of Hindus by Islamic marauders. Other greatest Indian Sufi saints, Auliya, MoinuddinChisti and Shah Jalal et al., came to India for fighting Jihad and slaughtering the Hindus. Auliya expresseddelight at the successful expeditions of massive looting, slaughter and slave-taking in India and happilyaccepted gifts from the plunder. Other great Sufis, those in Kashmir and Gujarat, inspired and brought terrorand destruction upon Indians.The Arabs, affirms this discussion, had nothing to offer to India and other great civilizations andnations they had conquered within a short time after Muhammad’s death. The immediate effect of Islamiconslaughts was a decline in existing arts, culture, literature, architecture, science and learning in thosecivilizations; their destructions of many centers of learning, from India to Egypt, bears a clear testimony tothat. These intellectual and material endeavours flourished again amongst Persians, Egyptians, and Syriansetc. out of the resilience of their pre-Islamic cultural and civilizational heritage. Even Nehru, who generallypaints a rosy picture of the Muslim rule in India, failed to identify any positives that Islam could offer toIndia. He wrote:The Moslems who came to India from outside brought no new technique or political oreconomic structure. In spite of a religious belief in the brotherhood of Islam, they were classbound and feudal in outlook. In technique and in the methods of production and industrialorganization, they were inferior to what prevailed in India. Thus their influence on the economiclife of India and the social structure was very little. 417How the Muslim world excelled intellectually and materially?After the initial surge of the brutal, iconoclastic assaults of Islamic invaders, these unsophisticated BedouinArabs faced the impossible task of managing the world’s advanced civilizations. Having little knowledge,expertise and discipline needed for the administration of advanced organized states, they were forced to makemany theological compromises and absorbed many of the advanced pre-Islamic human endeavors they cameacross in the conquered lands. They had to fall back upon the advanced jahiliyah system and expertise of theindigenous people in social, political, financial, trading and educational administration. The Arabs let theoften-unconverted people to run those affairs, while engaging themselves in conquests.As a general rule, Muslim rulers found the Jews proficient in finance, the Greeks skilled inengineering, architecture, and arts, and the Christians in law, medicine, education and administration. Theyfound it convenient and prudent to employ some of these infidels to continue in their respective professions.As a result, much of the contributions in early centuries of Islam, which Muslims consider as Islamic, camefrom the mind, toil and sweat of the much despised non-Arab infidels. The level of Muslim rulers’dependence on non-Muslims can be gauged from the fact that nearly two-and-a-half century after Islam’sbirth, when Caliph Mutawakkil expanded his library in 856, he could not find an educated Muslim scholar tolead the venture. Consequently, he had to entrust the job to a Christian scholar, Honayn Ibn Ishaq, despite hishatred and persecution of Jews and Christians.After absorbing the initial blow, music, art, literature, architecture and science flourished in theIslamdom, to which the Arabs of the desert had very little, if at all, to contribute. They all evolved out of theindigenous and vibrant pre-Islamic heritage of the advanced non-Arab nations and civilizations Muslims had417. Nehru (1946), p. 265139