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

too. Although acceptance of any high office under a Hindu ruler was no more considered contrary to the Muslim religious law, the staunch moulanas and moulavis, however, looked upon such acts as necessary exceptions and bore a secret grudge in their hearts that they were time bombs laid under the Muslim political power! Never from the very beginning, did the Hindus consider it contrary to their religious code to fight in the Muslim army on the side of the Muslims! It was only the exchange of food and women in marriage with the Muslims which endangered the sanctity of their religion! How foolish and suicidal to think so! 786A. This Hindu Emperor did not rest with the mere declaration of his adherence to Hinduism, but he fearlessly began to bring it into action in the presence of the Muslims. Idols of Hindu gods and goddesses were immediately installed in the holiest of places of Muslim civilization, the Diwan-i-Aam and Diwan-i-Khas in the royal palaces of Delhi. All the worships and all the religious rites in royal palaces began to be performed according to the Hindu ritual. Loud chanting of Hindu mantras and singing of Hindu devotional songs took the place of the ‘Ayats’ in the Koran! This Hindu Emperor himself and the hundreds amongst his old Hindu battalions, who had remained Hindus from the beginning and who were guarding the royal palace, paid scrupulous attention to the protection and proper worship of these new idols of Hindu gods and goddesses. The enthusiasm and vigour of the Hindu citizens and especially of the Hindu soldiers in the capital knew no bounds! Just as formerly the aggressive Muslims completely demolished the godly idols in the Hindu temples and turned them into Muslim masjids immediately after they conquered any Hindu capital, so did these counter-revolutionary Hindus install new images of their gods in every masjid as a retaliatory measure, and most ceremoniously converted the masjids into Hindu temples and filled them with loud chanting of mantras. It is only by this counter-attack of the Hindu Parias that the fanatic Muslims could ever have had any idea of the pangs of humiliation and grief that might have rankled in the hearts of the Hindu community, which had grown feeble because of their malady of religious tolerance, when the Muslims polluted the Hindu temples by cow-slaughter and turned them into masjids. 787. It might be true that in the heat and excitement of this unheard of and unprecedented religious revolution, the Muslim scriptures, some Muslim writers charge, might have been exposed to ridicule or shame. But at least