Any Nation That EVER Tried To Conquer Afghanistan NEVER Did

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Early Muslims By the year 1000 of the Christian Era the extreme north-western parts of India, in the trans-Indus region, had become introduced to Islam.
As early as C.E. 664, consequent upon an invasion of Kabul and its environs (which then formed part of India), by Abdur Rahman (Appointed amir by khalid bin waleed ra), a few thousand inhabitants are reported to have been converted to Islam.
(1) Subuktagin also fought against the Hindus and converted some of them. But all these events took place in the trans-Indus region, and we may, therefore, agree with Lanepoole in saying that in C.E. 1000 there were no Muslims in northern India east of the Indus.
(2) However, there were already some small settlements of Muslims in Sind, Gujarat and the Malabar Coast. Parts of Sind were conquered by Muhammad bin Qasim Sakifi in C.E. 712. Whichever towns he took, like Alor, Nirun, Debul and Multan, in them he established mosques, appointed Muslim governors, and propagated islam. In Debul, for instance ...

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KISH/ QIAS ABDUR RAHSEED (QAIS BABA).

King Qais Abdur Rashid was a ruler of Ghore during the year 629 AD. According to Niamatullah Harvi’s book Makhzana Afghana, 1613 AD, this was the time the Holy Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) was actively establishing Islam in the Arabian Peninsula. Khalid Bin Walid, a companion of the holy prophet invited King Qais Abdur Rashid of Ghore to come to Madina to be presented the new religion of Islam.


According to Abdul Jabbar Shah (Tarikh Pakhtun) and Abdullah Swathi(History of Pakhtun), Khalid bin Walid himself was an Afghan. His Afghan lineage is connected to Prophet Soleman Alaihu Sallam.


When Prophet Soleman was King of Palestine, he had two famous ministers namely Asif and Afghan in charge of Civil and Army affairs. They were the children of Armia and Barkhia . Minister Afghan is said to be the founder of nation of Afghans in recorded history books. Some Afghan people have settled in Arab lands and can be found even in current Saudi Arabia. However, most of them have settled in the present Afghanistan.


Khalid Bin Walid, being an Arab Afghan living during the time of the Holy Prophet must have wanted well for his people and had therefore invited them to Medina in the hopes that they would embrace the religion of Islam. It should be noted that even now, all Afghans/Pakhtuns call Khalid Bin Walid ---Khalid Baba.


When King Qais Abdur Rashid received the invitation from Madina, he called Pakhtun Jirga’s gathering . He discussed with the Jirga Khalid Baba’s invitation of acceptace Islam. Until the year of 629 AD, the people of this region were the followers of early monothiesm,Budh Math(Bhuddism), Hindu Math(Hinduism) and Jain Math.


The discussion in Jirga took many days. It was really difficult for Afghans to forgo their existing religions . The Jirga decided to send their King with 72 Qaumi Elders. According to Pakhtun historians, the King and Jirga went to Madina and embraced Islam.


When they returned to Afghanistan, the entire Afghan nation embraced Islam. The holy Prophet had sent along two companions to teach them the religion of Islam, Quran and other matters of the new way of life. When they came to Ghore, a Mosque named Quwatul Islam was built with an Islami Madrassah. A Minar Jam was erected. Loranz Losang has well documented this building, in 1968-69 AD, under the United Nations(Central Asiatic Journal No.15 of 1968-69 AD) supervision.


It is recorded (Tabaqat Nasiri) that after the death of King Qais Abdurrashid, the following Pakhtun Kings of Ghore have continued to spread Islam in this region:


King Shansaban(669 AD),

King Amir Folad(748 AD),

King Amir Karor(786 AD),

King Muhammad Suri (867 AD),

King Muhammad bin Suri(1020 AD),

King Abbas bin Shais bin Muhammad(1059 AD),

King Qutubuddin (1099AD),

King Azzuddin Ghori(1100 AD) ,

King Allauddin Husain(1151 AD) ,

King Ghiasuddin Sam(1202 AD) and

King Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori(1206 AD). Shahabuddin was the ruler of all the subcontinent from Ghazni to Bengal. He introduced Islam through out the subcontinent.

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http://muslimheros.blogspot.com/2012/05/biography-khalid-ibn-walid.html

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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IiNqyMRtlSk

Grave of qais baba...some say its in herat some say in hindukush...personally i vnt been to the grave yet...but this is what people believe to be his grave to this day.

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As earlier said, Pashtuns were completely defeated by Arabs and they not only accepted Islam but also Islamism. Only secular and nationalist Pashtuns are not Islamists but still they are Muslims.

Hindus, Europeans, Buddhists, Chinese all resisted Islam but Pashtuns were completely overwhelmed by Arabs. Even Spain expelled Arabs after so many centuries but Pashtuns still remain slaves to Arabs.

The only good thing Pashtuns got from Irani Islam is Sufism but this is now completely washed away after the invasion of Wahabism after 1979.

Unfortunatly the Pashtun region and south asian(muslims) turned out to the biggest slaves of arabs. People like Ghumbasa admit that arabs are superior and they will willingly clean the toilets and polish the shoes of their arab masters. They feel happy when they do this

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Unfortunatly the Pashtun region and south asian(muslims) turned out to the biggest slaves of arabs. People like Ghumbasa admit that arabs are superior and they will willingly clean the toilets and polish the shoes of their arab masters. They feel happy when they do this

Where did i say arabs are superior? Seems like you too have some complex issues.Thats the problem with the likes of you and bengali cat who cant admit that you guys have defeatist mentality to the west.I never said we are slaves but Alhamdulillah we accepted islam and went hands in hands with muslims from various ethnicities to conquer subcontinent.
Now if you feel bad for the idols that pashtuns,turks, or arabs etc had broken ...or infidels killed thats not my problem...

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Why mehmood ghaznavi attacked somnath?

Why Mahmud of Ghazni attacked Somnath ? There are a lot of myths about the temple at Somnath and a lot of myths about Mahmud of Ghazni who destroyed it in the 11th century. Yogi Siskand a regular contributor to our site has researched the attacks on the Somnath temple and his research informs the world that attacking Somnath was not simply a Muslim past time in the 11th century and onwards. He describes many raids on Somnath made by other local Hindi and Jain rajas.

Somnath, she notes, is first mentioned in the Mahabharata as a place for pilgrimage which did not have a temple until much later. The Shaivite temple at Somnath actually dates to the late ninth or early tenth century. Somnath was then a thriving port, a great centre of trade with Muslim

Arabia and Iran. A sizeable portion of the income that the temple earned from pilgrims was invested in the lucrative West Asian trade. Thapar tells us that well before Mahmud appeared on the scene, several local Hindu rajas, such as the Chudasamas, Abhiras and Yadavas, would regularly attack pilgrims on their way to Somnath and loot them of the money and valuables that they intended to donate to the temple. In other words, Mahmud was certainly not the first of the raiders attracted to Somnath by the legendary tales of its fabulous wealth.

A different picture emerges from the Jain accounts of this period. Dhanapala, an eleventh century Jain poet, attached to the Paramara court in Malwa and a contemporary of Mahmud, writes in his Satyauriya Mahavira Utasha, that Mahmud had been unable to damage the idols of Mahavira in the Jain temples. Dhanapala saw this as proof of the ‘superior power’ of Jainism over its historical rival, Shaivism. Hemachandra, the early twelfth century Jain author of the Dvayashraya Kavya, writes that the Hindu Chalukya king of Gujarat was greatly angered by the destruction of temples by the rakshsas, daityas and asuras [demons]. Curiously, he identifies these vandals not as Muslims or Turks but as local Hindu rajas. The Chalukya king, he tells us, then went on a pilgrimage to Somnath and found the temple in a state of neglect and disrepair, and apparently felt that ‘it was a disgrace that the local [Hindu] rajas were plundering the pilgrims’. Accordingly, he ordered the temple to be repaired. Interestingly, this very same. Yodi Siskand

Somnath, Idol of, “a mere mass of coarse crockery,” says Jepherson Brick, an imaginary friend of Carlyle’s, “not worth five shillings, sat like a great staring god, with two diamonds for eyes, which one day a commander of the Faithful took the liberty to smite once as he rode up with grim battle-axe and heart full of Moslem fire, and which thereupon shivered into a heap of ugly potsherds, yielding from its belly half a waggon-load of gold coins; the gold coins, diamond eyes, and other valuables were carefully picked up by the Faithful; confused jingle of potsherds was left lying; and the idol of Somnath, once showing what it was, had suddenly come to a conclusion.”*Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Biased comments about muslims:
The destruction of the Somnath temple has been described as a raid, and the most profound attack on “India” in the 11th century. Mahmud’s attack decimated the power of the area eliminating the stratfied structure of the society in the area. Here is a dscription of the temple on temples on IloveIndia.

It is a pilgrimage centre held in great reverence throughout India. Situated 79 kilometres from Junagadh and 25 kilometres from Chorwad, the legendary shore temple of Somnath is one of the twelve most sacred Shiva shrines in India. According to the legend, Somnath is as old as creation, built by none other than the Moon God himself.

It is believed that he had built this temple with gold. Later it was built by Ravana in silver, then Lord Krishna in wood and Bhima in stone. Legend has it that the Kalabhairava shivalinga at Prabhasa was worshipped by the moon and hence, the Lord is called as Somnatha. The Somnath temple also houses the remains of the ancient Sun temple.

Towards the east of the town is the Bhalka Teertha. This is where, Lord Krishna is believed to have been injured by a tribal arrow. Somnath was destroyed and rebuilt several times. Mehmud of Gazni having heard of its fabulous treasure, raided it in 1026 and carried away camel loads of jewels and gold. Lunch is available here in the simple dining hall in the temple compound, north of the main gate. One cannot get the cameras inside.

The temple is located by the beautiful blue waters of the Arabian Sea. The Somnath beach is a fascinating sight. The fresh blue waters, humming waves and the cool sands, gives you a feeling of having landed in a paradise. Nearby is the Prabhas Patan Museum, which houses the 11th century version of the Somnath temple with 5 domes and many pillars.

HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE: THE RAJPUT ERA ENDS

The end of the Rajput era created the beginning of the Muslim era in India. Dr. Smith says that this became so prominent that the centuries from the death of Harsha to the Mohammedan conquest of Hindustan, extending in round numbers from the middle of the seventh century to the close of the twelfth century, was the Rajput era . This is 500 years of Hindu rule. This is one of the few periods of history when Hindus ruled India.

On the eve of the Arab invasion of Sind (712 A.D: Quaid-e-Azam said that this is the day the Pakistan movement began in India), Chandrapida, the grandson of Durlabhavardhan was the ruler of the Korkot (Kashmir ) kingdom The most powerful king was Muktipida Lalitadya, brother and successor of Chandrapida. He was a great conqueror, and is said to have conquered Punjab, Dardistan.


Mahmud Ghanznavi (translated: Mahmud of Ghazni) was not, according to some, like future Muslim invaders of India, a religious proselytizer. Indeed, with the exception of Punjab, which he needed as his “forward operating base” for his Indian expeditions, he made no attempt to rule any of his conquests. His intent was economic and political. It has been said that the destruction of Somnath is mentioned only in Muslim texts, whose authors had the habit of exaggeration. This view goes as far as to say in the opinion of some, the Ghaznivad empire fell apart because of Mahmud’s excessive reliance on Hindu soldiers and generals.

Others, however, have argued the reverse: he may have wanted the money, but also wanted to spread Islam and did his best to destroy temples even when offered large sums to leave the temples alone. The Indian historian Romila Thapar [2002] takes a middle view: Mahmud needed money for his wars; India’s temples were known to contain fabulous treasures; we need not look for more complicated explanations. Thapar said he was undoubtedly an iconoclast, and hardly averse to destroying temples to gain favor when he went to heaven. Nonetheless, he warred equally with other Islamic sects, because he was a Sunni. The secondary purpose of his raids may have been tied up with his need to convert Shias to Sunni beliefs.Mahmud Ghaznavi’s 17 Invasions of India Ravi Rikhye.We muslims believe he was a mujahid..who spread islam and freed the poor from caste system.

The most famous and terrible invasion launched by Mahmud was his sixteenth, against the Somnath Temple in Gujrat, western India. This was an immense distance from Ghanzni, but one supposes by now he was so feared that he had easy passage.
Alptigin, one of the Turkish slaves of the Samanid ruler, Abdul Malik, rose to the status of Governor of Khurasan. However, when his patron died, he was striped of his title and forced to leave the land. He captured a small area in Afghanistan and established his rule in the city-state of Ghazni in 962 with the aim of conquering his own land, a desire that remained in the hearts of his successors. After his death in 977, his son-in-law, Subuktigin, succeeded him. Under Subuktigin, Ghazni started emerging as a political and military power of the region. Alarmed at the rising power in the neighborhood, the Hindu Shahi Raja Jaipal attacked Ghazni. Jaipal was defeated. In order to save his life, he promised to pay tribute. But after going back home, he not only defaulted but also took support from other Hindu Rajas of the region and again attacked Subuktigin in 991. His fate was not different this time. He was defeated and had to pay a heavy ransom besides giving away the areas of Lamghan and Peshawar.

Meanwhile, Subuktigin died and his son Mahmud ascended the throne in 998. Jaipal took advantage of the situation, and to avenge his defeat at the hands of Subuktigin, organized an army of twelve thousand horsemen, thirty thousand foot soldiers and three hundred elephants. This movement forced Mahmud, who was preparing to invade Central Asia, to turn his attention towards India. The battle against Jaipal was the beginning of a long series of attacks by Mahmud against South Asia. According to most historians, Mahmud invaded India seventeen times to crush the power of the Hindu Rajas and Maharajas who were always busy planning conspiracies against him. After defeating Tarnochalpal in 1021, Mahmud formally annexed Punjab. After the fall of Punjab, the Hindu think tank assembled at Somnath – which was more of a political center than a temple – to plan a big war against Mahmud. He took all the Rajas and Maharajas by surprise when he attacked Somnath and crushed the Hindu headquarter of political intrigue. With the destruction of Somnath he broke the backbone of the Hindus in the region and thus had no need to attack India again. Mahmud also obtained formal recognition of his sovereignty from the Abbasid Khalifah, al-Qadir Billah, who also conferred upon him the titles of Yamin-ud-Dawlah and Amin-ul-Millah. He spent his last five years in dealing with the affairs of Ghazni and in making plans to conquer Central Asia.*

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Mahmud of Ghazni made two attempts between 1015-1021 to conquer Kashmir, but was unsuccessful. Mahmud of Ghazni attacked temples in the subcontinent because the temples were the seats of political power. The Brahaman priests kept all knowledge to themselves. They kept all knowledge away from the population, locked up in temples (including the knowledge to build the temple). To destroy the political and military power of the city, the temple had to be destroyed. Since the high priest controlled the populations, they had to be defeated. The temples also contained all knowledge of the area. Mohammed Ghauri was the founder of the Muslim empire in India (1173 A.D). The slave dynasty lasted from 1206-1290. The Khilji dynasty lasted from 1290-1320. The Tughlaq dynasty lasted from (1320-1412). In 1304 Ibin-e-Batuta visited visited China through Kashmir. The Syed and Lodhi dynasty lasted from 1413-1526. During the reign of the sultans of Delhi the Khokars had established themselves between Lahore and Ghazni on the Southern border of Kashmir.

The most important impact of Mahmud’s expeditions was the conquest of Punjab for the first time by Muslims and the establishment of Muslim rule and society in the region. Along with Muslim warriors came Muslim saints and Sufis, who promulgated Islam in India. The most important amongst them was Sheikh Ali Hajweri, popularly known as Data Ganj Baksh. He was a renowned Sufi who not only spread the message of Allah in Lahore but also in other parts of Punjab. His book in Persian titled Kashaful-Mahjub is considered as the first authentic book on Sufism.

The establishment of Muslim rule in Punjab is a significant event in the history of Islam in Sub-continent. Muslims gained their first foothold in Northern Indian. The conquest of Punjab also paved the way for other conquerors like Muhammad Ghuri. After the death of Mahmud, the Ghaznavid dynasty lost much of its vigor; yet during the days of his son Masud and grandson Mahmud, Lahore remained an important province of the Ghaznavid Empire. Later, the Ghaznavid rulers moved their headquarter from Ghazni to Punjab and ruled Peshawar, Lahore and Multan till the last half of 12th century when Muhammad Ghuri defeated them.*Story of Pakistan

Chalukyan king also ordered the construction of a mosque at Cambay, which was later torn down in an attack by the Hindu Paramaras of Malwa, who are also known to have looted and destroyed many Jain temples built by their Chalukyan rivals. As Thapar perceptively notes, it would seem that places of worship were seen in this game of politics as ‘a statement of power [because of which] they could become a target of attack, irrespective of religious affiliations’.Says thapar.

Since the temple of Somnath was a store-house of great wealth, the Chalukyan kings of Gujarat took strong measures to prevent it from being looted by, among others, the local rajas, all of whom happened to be Hindus. A twelfth century inscription tells us that the Chalukyan king Kumarapala appointed a governor at Somnath to protect the temple ‘against the piracy and looting of the local rajas’. In another inscription dating a century later, the Chalukyan kings are portrayed as protecting the site from being looted by the Hindu rajas of Malwa. The Prabhaspattana inscription of 1169 speaks of the appointment of one Bhava Brihaspati as the chief priest of the temple, who reportedly persuaded the Chalukyan king Kumarapala to repair the temple because ‘it was an old structure, much neglected by the officers’. Curiously, there is no mention of Mahmud’s attack on the temple. Thapar says that this is perhaps because ‘the looting of a temple was not such an extraordinary event’, since it had been a frequent occurrence since well before Mahmud’s invasion.

The historical evidence that Thapar puts together convincingly demolishes the thesis that Mahmud’s attack on Somnath was motivated by a fiery religious zeal and that it sowed the seeds of a never-ending Hindu-Muslim antagonism. She points to a long legal document in Sanskrit dating back to 1264, which talks of a Muslim trader from Hormuz, in Iran, one Khaja Nuruddin Feroz, acquiring a large plot of land on the outskirts of Somnath in order to build a mosque. The land was acquired from Sri Chada, the local Hindu raja, and this deal had the approval of two local bodies. The first of these was the panchakula, consisting of local Hindu notables, including priests, officers and merchants, and headed by none other than the chief priest of the Somnath temple, one Purohit Virabhadra. The other body, the jamatha, consisted of Iranian traders from Hormuz as well as some local Muslims. Interestingly, the land given to build the mosque was part of the large estate of the Somnath temple itself. ‘The tone and sentiment of the inscription is amicable’, notes Thapar, and clearly suggests that Mahmud’s attack was not seen as an instance of alleged ‘Islamic vandalism’ but simply as one among many instances of looting that Somnath had long witnessed, starting well before the first Muslims appeared on the scene.

To further buttress her argument, Thapar refers to a fifteenth century Sanskrit inscription from Somnath which, curiously, begins with the standard Islamic invocation, Bismillah-ir- Rahman- ir-Rahim [‘In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate’. It is dedicated to a Muslim resident of Somnath, one Vohra Farid, son of the Arab Vohra Muhammad, and says that when Somnath was attacked by the Turks [Turushkas], he joined in the defence of the town and fought against them on behalf of the local raja Brahmadeva. Clearly then, Mahmud’s attack on the town can in no sense be seen as a ‘Muslim war against the Hindus’.*Yogi Siskand.says thapar.The contradictorh statements can be seen.

Somnath (1025-26)

"Northern India had ceased to attract Mahmud, for the spoils of its most wealthy temples were already in his treasury. But the rich and prosperous province of Gujarat was still untouched, and on October 18, 1025, he started from Ghazni with his regular troops and thirty thousand volunteer-horsemen for the temple of Somnath, situated at the distance of a bow-shot from the mouth of the Saraswati, by the side of which the earthly body of**Krishna had breathed its last."says thapar.

The temple of Somnath

“The people of Hind”, says Ferishta (following Ibn-i Asir) “believed that souls after separating from their bodies came to Somnath, and the god assigned to each soul, by way of transmigration, such new body as it deserved. . . . Somnath was the king, while other idols were merely his door-keepers and chamberlains. A hundred thousand people used to collect together in the temple at the time of the solar and lunar eclipses. . . The princes of Hindustan had endowed it with about ten thousand villages. A thousand Brahmans worshipped the idol continuously. . .”

Battle of Somnath:

. . . [After a fierce and close battle] Mahmud entered the temple and possessed himself of its fabulous wealth. `Not a hundredth part of the gold and precious stones he obtained from Somnath were to be found in the treasury of any king of Hindustan.’ Later historians have related how Mahmud refused the enormous ransom offered by the Brahmans, and preferred the title of `Idol-breaker’(But-shikan) to that of `Idol-seller’ (But-farosh). He struck the idol with his mace and his piety was instantly rewarded by the precious stones that came out of its belly.*Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni by Mohammad Habib

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Somanath was a religious city, in the heartland of the new faith called, Brahmanism, in the lands of the naghar’ Brahmans. The Brahmans were the creators of the Devanagri script though modified from our Indus script, taken from our universities of Taxila. The city of bahman nih,

mis called, Brahmanabad was located in the Kathiwar peninsula near the sea shore. The Hindu Brahmans lived off its bounty. The shrine was endowed with the income of ten thousand villages. This income wealth was not enough for them, so they had convinced the poor, pagan, and primitive people of the lands of Hindh that the idol of Somanath had the power to transmigrate their souls when they died, in a better, and richer, person, when they were re born. So everyone in his or her lifetime had to contribute way beyond their meansto please the idol with gold and jewels which the idol loved the best.

The edifice was built, and stood on 56 pillars of teak wood in a huge compound, with the entrance gates made of solid sandal wood. The teak wood was inlaid with lead. The inner hall of the dome was massive. It was dark inside to create the required aura and awe in the minds of the primitive . For light effect bejewelled chandeliers hung in the right places and gave it the right look.

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Near the idol was a chain of solid gold weighing (as per the Brahmans 200 maunds) which was connected with the bells. The chain was pulled at times to awake the sleeping Brahmans to come to duty a thousand at a time.

During the ongoing and continuous show 500 of the most beautiful damsels well versed in all manner of things danced in shifts. The number of 500 female dancers remained constant who danced to the musicians around the clock. All this was done to please the idol made out of stone and hung in space with a magnetic field all around it. This was the ultimate magic.*All this pomp and show ended when Sultan Mahmud came and took away the gates as well as the idol with him. Though the idol was broken in four pieces. The first piece was sent to Mecca to be placed under the entrance door of the Kaaba. The second piece was placed under the entrance to the prophets mosque in Medina. The third at the entrance of the great mosque of Ghuzznih, and the last piece at the entrance of the royal palace in Ghuzznih (Ghazni).

According to ‘Romila Thapar, an Indian historianin her book, “the history of India; vol i, on pages 232-233, she writes:

“the effects of destruction of somanath are etched in the generations of all Hindu Brahmanic, mindset. They shudder from the day when the a revival of Islam takes place. All efforts for the Hindu is focused on this endevour. The bud whenever it grows must be*crushed before it blossoms into a flower and the aroma leads the Muslim on a new ”jihad’

The most irksome and fearsome thing, that the Hindu can conjure, in his mind is a repeat of the fall of the idol worshipers so any trick or treachery is not unlawful for them, as long as the end is justified. The eventual fate of the Brahman idol worshipper rests with Allah. Do what they may ‘Time’ is an infinity before ”’ALLAH”, a fact which the limited mind of the Brahman fails to*perceive.

History of Idol of Somnath:

he Idol of Manat was a famous figure in pre Islamic Arabia. During 10th Hijri Makka was conquered and idols of Lat, Habal and Uza were defaced, Manat was smuggled to India by ship. (There is evidence of relations between Idol worshipers both regions).

Up on his arrival he was renamed as somnat (a common tradition in Sanskrit to add “So = good” before names for ex, bhagia & sobhagia). Mahmood Ghaznavi’s 17 attempts were all vectored towards Kathiawar after defacing somnat he never came back to India, his action of sending remains of Idol to Arabia also signifies his intentions.

According to many traditions one of the idols was “Nath”. “Som” means “Son of”. SomNath means son of Nath.

If this is actually the case, then, one might ask, how is it then that in Hindutva discourse and even in ordinary Indian school text-books Mahmud’s attack on Somnath came to symbolise a never-ending Hindu-Muslim antagonism? Thapar tells us that the first mention of a so-called ‘Hindu trauma’ in connection with Mahmud’s attack on Somnath was made in the debates in the British House of Commons in 1843. A year earlier, Lord Ellenborough had issued his controversial ‘Proclamation of the Gates’, whereby he ordered the British army in Afghanistan to return via Ghazni, Mahmud’s capital, and to bring back with them the sandalwood gates from Mahmud’s tomb there which, he claimed, had actually been looted by Mahmud from Somnath. He asserted that this would symbolise the British control over Afghanistan despite their poor showing in their battles against the Pathans and that it would also serve to assuage the alleged bruised pride of the Hindus. The 1843 debates in the House of Commons over the ‘gates of Mahmud’ raised a storm of controversy. Lord Ellenborough was accused of seeking to appease the Hindus or to set the Hindus against the Muslims. It was even pointed out that no historian had mentioned any such gates in any of the several accounts of Mahmud’s attack and that the story of the gates ‘could only be an invention of folk tradition’. However, Lord Ellenborough’s supporters managed to prevail in the end, arguing that bringing the gates to India would ‘remove the feelings of degradation from the minds of the Hindus’ and would ‘relieve that country, which had been overrun by the Mohammedan conqueror, from the painful feelings which had been rankling amongst the people for nearly a thousand years’, because, allegedly, ‘the memory of the gates had been preserved by the Hindus as a painful memorial of the most devastating invasions that had ever desolated Hindustan’. As in the case of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, here, too, we clearly find British administrators concocting their own versions of ‘history’ in order to set Hindus against the Muslims and help strengthen colonial rule.

The controversy that the British sought to raise over the ‘gates’ had a curious end, however. A set of gates was uprooted by the British army from Mahmud’s tomb in Ghazni and brought back to India in triumph. On arrival, however, it was discovered that the wooden gates were of Egyptian, rather than Indian, workmanship and not associated in any way with Somnath! So, they were placed in a store-room in a dark chamber in the Red Fort at Agra, and by now have probably rotted away into oblivion! Revisioning the History of Hindu-Muslim Relations*By Yoginder Sikand

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Slavery and befooling of masses was quite rampant in subcontinent...islam freed them of shackles of caste system and idolatory.

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2a12gm_mahmud-ghaznavi-and-somnath-temple-an-indian-explains_news

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What somnat temple had in form of jewlry or gold etc was collected from poor hindus ..rajas used to fool them...according to subcontinental historians.

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Prophet Nuh as

Ten generations after Aadam (a.s) passed away; idol worship grew, to stop the spread of evil Shirk: ALLAH sent the Prophet Nuh (a.s). Ibless had misled people to worship pious dead men like "Wadd", they bowed to graves, made statues, and took them as their gods.

Living for nine hundred and fifty years; Nuh (a.s) preached in many ways, but with fingers in ears the pagans (Kaafir) jeered, and told him to go away. The cheifs of pagans said Nuh (a.s) was mad, followed only by the weak and poor, but when they threatened to stone him, Nuh (a.s) could take no more.

"Don't leave on earth any disbelievers!" to ALLAH prayed Prophet Nuh (a.s), they would misguide and raise more, so it was better to start anew. Nuh (a.s) was told to build a big boat: an Ark (boat) made of nails and wood, ALLAH guided Nuh (a.s) as he built it, and he made it strong and good.

Joking tha Ark was far from the sea; the pagans (Kaafir) giggled in laughter, Nuh (a.s) said, their fun would soon end and turn into sadness after.. A disbeliever would bring his son so he could poke fun at Nuh (a.s), recalling as a kid, his own father used to make fun of Nuh (a.s) too.

The pagans dared Nuh (a.s) "Bring ALLAH's doom!" joking about the flood, stormy waves would soon drown them, washing away their evil blood. Nuh (a.s) began to fill the Ark (boat) with animals; in pairs of male and female, with only about eighty believers aboard, the Ark (boat) got ready to sail

Nuh (a.s) would soon board the Ark, while saying "Bismillah" was best, with ALLAH's protection the boat would float, move and finally rest. Water gushed from cracks in the ground, ovens and places of fire, the skies overflowed with rain and the waves got higher and higher.

Nuh (a.s) asked his son Kenan to leave evil disbelief and climb aboard, saying nothing could save except ALLAH's Mercy, as the rain poured. Nuh's son didn't listen and climbed a high mountain; feeling all secure but huge waves crashed into Kenan, sweeping him to his death for sure.

Nuh (a.s) asked ALLAH to forgive his son, saying he was a famil member. ALLAH said not to treat him as one, as ALLAH he chose not to remeber. Even though Nuh (a.s) was a prophet but his wife and son didn't believe. Nuh (a.s) felt sad, but was told for disbeliever he shouldn't grieve.

They floated in the Ark for many months; in a world, wet and moody, until ALLAH told the earth to dry up its waters; the Ark then landed on Mount Judi. ALLAH blessed "Peace" upon the Ark's crew; faith had kept them alive. They fasted and prayed to ALLAH, thankful they had survived.

Nuh (a.s) advised his three sons; Ham, Yapheth and Shem before he died, saying worship ALLAH without shirk, and warned about Dajjal and pride. The Believers and animals spread new life across the earth once again, now when we see ships, we think of Nuh's (a.s) Ark (boat) carrying life in the rain.

[ghumbasa]

Presenting the Witnesses of the Day of Judgment


Allah will assemble witnesses on nations and on individuals. Allah will make this ummah witness on others. Allah will send witnesses against us – our hands, feet, tongue will speak about the sins we committed.


Nuh will be the witness against his nation. He will say that he presented the truth to them, but they rejected it. Abu Sa’eed narrated that Allah’s Apostle said, “Noah and his nation will come (on the Day of Resurrection and Allah will ask (Noah), ‘Did you convey (the Message)?’ He will reply, ‘Yes, O my Lord!’ Then Allah will ask Noah’s nation, ‘Did Noah convey My Message to you?’ They will reply, ‘No, no prophet came to us.’ Then Allah will ask Noah, ‘Who will stand a witness for you?’ He will reply, ‘Muhammad and his followers (will stand witness for me).’ So, I and my followers will stand as witnesses for him (that he conveyed Allah’s Message).” That is, (the interpretation) of the Statement of Allah: ‘Thus we have made you a just and the best nation that you might be witnesses Over mankind …’ (2:143).” [Bukhaari, 4/55/555]


The people of Nuh will say to the Muslims, “How do you know? You weren’t there.” The Muslims will say, “We received it in the book of Allah (the Qur’an).”


Then, Allah will make Muhammad sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam a witness against us. “And thus we have made you a just community that you will be witnesses over the people and the Messenger will be a witness over you. "