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1/n The hate for Brahmins is very much manufactured for reasons that have been stated by invaders, the enemies of Hindus in past.
This ๐งต is dedicated for such records.
Letโs first quote from Fatwa-i-Jahandari, by Ziyauddin Barani, contemporary of Tughluq & Firoz Shah.
This ๐งต is dedicated for such records.
Letโs first quote from Fatwa-i-Jahandari, by Ziyauddin Barani, contemporary of Tughluq & Firoz Shah.
He writes showing Brahmins as saviour of Hindu Dharma:
โIf Mahmud had gone to India once more, he would have brought under his sword all the Brahmans of Hind who, in that vast land, are the cause of the continuance of the laws of infidelity and of the strength of idolators; (โฆ)
โIf Mahmud had gone to India once more, he would have brought under his sword all the Brahmans of Hind who, in that vast land, are the cause of the continuance of the laws of infidelity and of the strength of idolators; (โฆ)
He would not have returned his Hindu-slaughtering sword to its scabbard until the whole of Hind had accepted Islam. For Mahmud was a Shafiite, & according to Imam Shafii the decree for Hindus is Islam or death, that is to say, they should either be put to death or accept Islam.
It is not lawful to accept jiziya from Hindus who have neither a prophet nor a revealed book.โ
Similar sentiment of expressing Brahmin as base of Hindu Dharma is shown by other contemporary of Tughlaq, Shamse Siraj Afif in Tarikh-e-Firozshahi.
He writes as below:
He writes as below:
โSultan Firoz Tughlaq convened a meeting of the learned Ulama and renowned Mashaikh and suggested to them that an error had been committed: the Jiziyah had never been levied from Brahmans: they had been held excused, in former reigns.
The Brahmans were the very keys of the chamber of idolatry,& the infidels were dependent on them (kalid-i-hujra-i-kufr und va kafiran bar ishan muataqid und).They ought therefore to be taxed first. The learned lawyers gave it as their opinion that the Brahmans ought to be taxed.โ
Barani writes as below in Tarikh-i-Firuzshahi while explaining character of true Muslim King
โWhen they see a Hindu, their eyes grow red & they wish to bury him alive; they also desire to completely uproot the Brahmans,
โWhen they see a Hindu, their eyes grow red & they wish to bury him alive; they also desire to completely uproot the Brahmans,
who are the leaders of kufr and shirk and owning to whom kufr and shirk are spread and the commandments of kufr are enforced (โฆ)โ
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