History of Islam Vol 3 of 3 by Akbar Shah Najeebabadi

Ganghisid Mongols, Turks and Tartar Mongols 305
Genghis Khan himself was
tall, strong and stout. During battle, he
was in the first row and dispersed the enemy ranks wherever he
charged at them. The secret of his outstanding victories also lay in
the fact that his sons were also mighty warriors and had been
endowed with soldierly qualities and Jemper. Furthermore, he had
done away with tribal feuds and rivalries and forged unity and accord
among the Mongols.
He married five wives and every wife belonged to a different tribe. In
this way, he won the confidence and support of all those tribes. One of
the laws of his book of statutes entitled the "Torah of Genghis" was
that,
in case of the conquest of a new city, a large-scale massacre was a
must, for it created deep terror in the hearts of the defeated people,
never allowing them to gather courage to rise against the victor.
Genghis Khan practiced it in all of his victories. It is an undeniable fact
that in those days, no ruler was above the danger of revolt and
murder and such insurgencies
and uprisings caused untold miseries
and sufferings to the population at large. The revolts of the Persians,
Shiites
and Ubaidites never ceased to occur. When Genghis Khan was
acquainted with these ways and practices throughout the conquered
territories, he used this device to create awe and fear in his subjects
and it paid him dividends.
The Mongols
of that time had conquered the entire Asian continent
and some parts of Europe except Iraq, Arabia and India. The Islamic
states suffered most at the hands of the Mongols and their swords
killed large numbers of Muslims. At times, it appeared that Islam
would go out of existence but Allah Almighty saved His Religion
and only the deviated Muslims were overtaken by the calamity.
With the passage of time, the anti-Islamic force of the Mongols
surrendered to the mighty moral and spiritual forces of Islam. The
swords, which were used to wipe out all traces of Islam, were now
being used to guard it. When Christianity made an attempt to turn
the Mongols might and magnificence towards itself the Mongols
ound nothing in it to attract an ambitious and adventurous people,
ongols were, in truth, like a clean slate concerning religion and
aith and had nothing against others. Allah Almighty had taken the
ongols out of the mountains to make a victorious entry into Asia