भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

was going out to hunt, Khatib ‘Ali’ sat down behind a tree in the forest and awaited the Rai’s arrival. When the Rai reached the spot, Khatib Ali stood up and implored the former to stop the elephant and listen to the latters’s complaint. He then placed in his hand a “Kasida”, which he had composed in Hindi verse stating the whole case. The Rai having heard this complaint, placed Khatib Ali under the charge of a servant, ordering him to take care of him... Later disguising himself in tradesman’s dress, the Rai entered the city (of Khambayat) and stayed a short time in different places in the market-place, making enquiries as to the truth of Khatib Ali’s complaint. He then learnt that the Musalmans were oppressed and were slain without any grounds The next day, he held a court. He said it was his duty to see that all his subjects were afforded such protection as would enable them to live in peace. He then gave orders that two leading men from each class of infidels —Brahmins, fire worshippers (sometimes applied to Buddhists) and others —should be punished. He gave one lac Balotras to enable the Musalmans to rebuild the mosque and the minarets. He also gave some clothes to Khatib.” Muhammad ‘Ufi: Jami’-ul-Hikayat, Elliot HIED Vol. II Pp. 162-163). 437. This Raja Jayasingh had gone on a foot pilgrimage to the rejuvenated temple of Somnath and was a devotee of Shiva and had implicit faith in the Hindu religion. Probably, because for this very reason, place of driving the inveterate and crafty Muslim enemies out of his own kingdom or instead of reconverting them to Hinduism, even if by means of force, he had the masjids—the masjids of those Muslims who had reduced to mere rubble, not only the temple of Somnath but hundreds of other temples in Gujarat and thousands in other parts of India—rebuilt at the cost of the Hindus, and offered them a special protection according to his Hindu creed of religious tolerance and generosity! 438. Was it ever possible for the Hindus under Mahmud of Ghazni or Muhammad Ghori or for those in the domain of the Sultan, who had gone on killing the Hindus and ravaging their lands—was it ever possible for them to complain to any Muslim governor of the land against the destruction of their own temples? (Let alone the appeal for the restoration of such a demolished temple!) To complain in such a way would itself have amounted to a very grave offence of the kafirs, according to the Muslim religious code, and for this very offence, every one of the Hindu men and women would have been sold in Kabul or Kandhar as wretched slaves. But such treacherous and dangerous Muslims were allowed by the Hindu kings