Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Zaid Hamid:brasstacks-Yeh Ghazi Episode11; Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi Part3

brasstacks program Yeh Ghazi on Timeline of the Muslim History. In this episode Zaid Hamid discusses the campaigns of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi in the subcontinent. It was Hindus who took the offensive & their Raja Jay Pal launched an assault on Ghazni during the time of Mahmud's father Sebuktagin. He suffered a demoralizing defeat & lost fair proportion of his land.When Sultan Mahmud came to power he again took the field to avenge his defeat. But this time the thrashing was even greater & so much was he disheartened by this that he committed suicide.Sultan Maḥmud was the first to carry the banner of Islām into the heart of India Sultan Mahmud was one of the greatest Iconoclasts in the History. When approached to spare the idol of Thanesar, highly revered by the Hindus, in exchange of substantial "annual tribute and fifty elephants and jewels to a considerable amount", Mahmud simply turned it down saying: "The religion of the faithful inculcates the following tenet: 'That in proportion as the tenets of the Prophet are diffused, and his followers exert themselves in the subversion of idolatry, so shall be their reward in heaven;' that therefore, it behoved him, with the assistance of God, to root out the worship of idols from the face of India. How, then, should he spare Thanesar?" He repeated similar sentiments when, at Somnath, he was offered a huge compensation to spare the idol. Even his nobles pointed to him that "he could not obtain so much treasure by breaking the idol ...

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