Arab invasion of India: Battle of Raor

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After the rule of Persian and Greek governments ended, the rule of Hindu rulers started. Maharaja Ashok, who
conquered greater part of India, was a Buddhist and after him Brahmans started their dominance. During the rule of
Raja Vikramajeet efforts were made to spread Hindu religion in Sindh. Both dynasties left their influence. Buddhist
Stupas and Hindu Temples are the remnants of their period. Rai Sahasi and Chach dynasties were the last of the Hindu
rulers. The last ruler of Sindh was Raja Dahir, who ruled over the following areas:
a) Multan division area 24824 Sq. Miles.

THE ARAB IMPERIALIST PERIOD.
The Arabs conquered Sindh and had control over the same areas ruled by Raja Dahir excepting the areas of Kutch and
Junagarh. So during the Arab period the following areas came under their control:
a) Multan Division area 24824 Sq. Miles.
b) Bahawalpur Division area 17652 Sq. Miles.
c) The present Sindh area 57000 Sq. Miles.
d) The Baluchistan area 134050 Sq. Miles.
The total area comes to 233476 Sq. Miles.
In Arab period the boundaries sometimes were greater and sometimes lesser. Internal management remained in the
hands of tribal chiefs. But for the collection of taxes from time to time, the Governors were appointed from Damascus or
Baghdad. The general policy remained in their hands who in the various centers of Sindh, kept Arab cantonments at
Multan, Alore, Barhmanabad etc., the governors used to stay in the cantonments. During the days of Soomra and
Samma dynasties the areas of Sindh cannot be clearly fixed. These were the best periods of Sindh. But unfortunately the
history of Sindh has not been given fair treatment.

Sindhudesh – a translation of "Sindhu Jii Sanjaah"

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General Chronology

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711 Invasion of Sind by Muhammad b. Qasim

712 Capture of Nirun. Defeat and death of Dahir. Capture of Aror

713 Capture of Multfin by the Muslims

715 Death of Muhammad b. Qasim

717 Death of the Caliph Sulaimfm and accession of Umar II


724-743 Hisham Caliph Junaid governor of Sind

750 Overthrow of the Umayyads by the 'Abbasids. Musa, governor of Sind

754-775 Al-Mansur Caliph. Hishfun governor of Sind

813-833 Al-Ma'iniin Caliph. Rebellion of Bashar, son of Daud, in Sind. Musa Barmaki governor of Sind

830 Death of Musa and accession of his son 'Amran as governor of Sind

871 Virtual extinction of the authority of the Caliphs in Sind. Arab principalities of Multan and Mansurah
 

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In most of the accounts of that time Sindh, it is often stated that Sindh of that time was not politically and socially stable society and state. The Catch had usurped the rule of Sindh and the old nobility thus was against them. It is also alleged, particularly in some Pakistani accounts that Dahir married his own sister.

Dahir was a Mohiyal Brahman. So I looked into his history in Mohiyal Forums and found the following :

Chhibbers


There are indications in old text-books that the Chhibbers lived in Mathura. the city of birth of Krishna the Incarnate. around 250 BC. Mathura was also the cradle of the Balis. In the 7th century AD Rai Narsingdev, a Chhibber patriarch, was Dewan in the ruling principality of Mathura. He had two sons named Rai Chach and Nahar Singh. the latter is referred as Chander by some muslim chroniclers. After the death of Narsingdev, his sons became disenchanted with Mathura and migrated to Sind, through Punjab and Rajasthan, en route of Bhatinda and Bikaner.

While in Sind. Rai Chach got a job in the court of Raja Sahsi. Sahsi, also known as Rai Sinhasana, was a brahmin (the various kings of the Rai dynasty have ruled for over 144 years). Raja Sahsi was a great connoisseur of men and soon discerned the latent and patent qualities of Rai Chach and appointed him as his prime minister. When Sahsi died after a prolonged illness, without leaving any issue to succeed him. his queen Sobhi who was secretly in love with the nally Rai Chach. kept the news of the king's death a closely guarded secret, to pre-empt intrigues of the many aspirants to the vacant throne. She later married Rai Chach and proclaimed him as the new ruler.

The brother of Sahsi, named Dhamrat. who was the chief of a nearby state, challenged Chach and invited him to a bout, and in the encounter was killed by Chach. Rai Chach is considered to be the founder of the Chhibber sect and was the first man to use the appellation of Chhibber with his name. Chhibber is believed to be derived from the Sanskrit word \'Shivi Var\' meaning a righteous person.

During the reign of Rai Chach. his broiller Nahar Singh (alias Chander) was the defacto ruler and their capital was at Rawar. Chach himself was busy in fighting wars and conquering new territories viz. Brahmanabad, Thalia, Sohstan and Multan (which was ruled by Rai Bechara, a kin of Sahsi). He extended his dominion upto Kannauj in the east. Kashmir and Kabul in north. and Iran in the west.

Nearer hotne, he wanted to finish Samini. the Buddhist archbishop, who later played a treacherous role in the time of Raja Dahir. but spared his life. Chach built a big fort at Rawar (also mentioned as Alwar in some rCC(Jrds) which was subsequently completed by his son. Dahersia. He celebrated his second marriage with the widow queen of Brahmanabad. the ruler named Akham Lohana having been earlier killed in a battle with Chach.

From his two wives he had two sons. Dahir and Dahersia, and two daughters (one named Mai while the name of the other is not known). Chach celebrated the marriage of one of his daughters with Durlab Drohan, the Mohyal (Mohan) king of Kashmir. This shows that even 1300 years ago, the genealogical purity of the Mohyal race was being preserved in the highest echelons of the society.
 

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Raid Chach died in 674 AD after a glorious rule of 40 years. After the death of Rai Chach. his brother Nahar Singh was coronated as the king of Sind. He was totally devoted to Buddhism and spent all his time in meditation and reading scriptures. Taking advantage of this situation. the ruler of Sohstan named Mehta. whose state had been usurped by Chach during his military exploitations. declared a war on Sind with the help of king of Kannauj (it could not be Harsha Vardhana as mentioned in some Mohyal histories because he had demised in 647 AD) and, ironically, the ruler of Kashmir who was closely related to Chach family also sent a crack force to fight against Nahar Singh. They tried to wean away Dahir also but their efforts proved abortive. The clutch of foes had to beat a retreat after one month of concentration near fort Devbal (modern Karachi). Nahar Singh died in 681 after a rule of 7 years and according to his will Dahir was made the ruler of Alwar and his son Raj that of Brahmanabad (situated above Mir Pur Khas). Raj died after a year and was succeeded by Dahersia, the brother of Dahir, who ruled over Brahmanabad for 5 years. He married the daughter of Akham Lohana. the former ruler of the same state. His main achievement was the completion of the fort of Rawar initiated by his father and since Dahir did not take any interest in its construction, his relations with him became sour. When Dahersia died prematurely in 687. Dahir took over the charge of Brahmanabad as well as the Rawar fort. However, the peace of his dominion was soon shattered by an unprovoked attack of Raja Ramal, the hostile ruler of a neighbouring state. In a sudden swoop. Ramal overran the Rawar fort and headed towards the capital city.

To punish him Dahir sent a big force under command of Mohammed Alafi. an Arab chief settled in Sind, who over the years had become a confidant of Raja Dahir and was rewarded by him for his unstinted services in the past. Alafi inflicted a crushing defeat on the impostor and was conferred yet more rewards and honours. This victory proved only a brief interlude of relief for the beleaguered Raja Dahir of Sind, because a big Arab invasion which was going to seal his fate. was looming on the horizon. It all started when a sailing boat coming from Ceylon (known as Sarandeb in those days) carrying pilgrims for Arabia and a cargo of human slaves--consisting mostly of women, was intercepted and pirated near the coast of Sind by the local ruffians. In retaliation, HejajBin- Yusaf, the governor of Basra (Iraq), sent his legions but they were twice driven back, after bitter fighting near Devbal fort, by the native forces led by Jai Singh, the son of Dahir. For the final assault, backed with blessings of Waleid, the Caliph of Baghdad, Hejaj picked up his son-in-law (who was also his nephew) Mohammed Ibn Al Kasim, a fierce fighter, to lead the attack in 712 AD. Kasim stormed into India, laid siege of the Devbal fort and turned it into a battle-field. The luckless Raja Dahir fought with his back to the wall.

His kingdom was in total anarchy: the Buddhist leader Samani (ruler of Neron) and disgruntled Jats openly sided with the invaders; his erstwhile counsellor Ilafi turned tail and switched over his loyalty to his co-religionists; his trusted Aide Seosagar also deserted him when the hour was dark and the need dire; even members of his own clan viz.. the brahmins, raised a banner of revolt and one of them prompted Kasim to pull down the flag from the turret of the fort so that the soldiers of Dahir may take it as a sure omen of impending defeat and lay down their arms. Amazingly, the same thing came to pass. All resistance whittled down. the marauders made a cakewalk of the fort and unleashed a bedlam: innocent men were murdered, women immolated themselves in the burnng pyres, people were converted to Islam at the sword edge. sacred Hindu and Buddhist shrines were desecrated and incinerated and mosques built in their place.

After conquering the coastal town of Devbal, Kasim marched his army to the bridgehead of river Sind; the mighty river had to be crossed to gain an entry into Sind. The bridge was being guarded by the two burly brothers, Moka and Rasal, believed to be kiths of Dahir. They were bribed, the gates of the bridge were flung open. and the Arab hordes crashed into Sind. The valiant Jai Singh defended the river front and kept the intruders at bay for full 50 days, till he was forced to capitulate.

The next target of Kasim' s devils was the Rawar fort where Dahir and members of the royal family were taking refuge. surrounded by a battery of astrologers and soothsayers, bargaining for luck. On seeing his defences crumbling down, an anaemic Dahir himself stepped into the arena of war, riding on an elephant whose niggling sluggishness hampered rather than help his actions, while the commandos of Kasim were fighting with lightening speed on swift running horses. Finding the odds overwhelmingly stacked against him, instead of facing the humiliation of a defeat and being killed in an ignominious manner, Dahir decided to commit suicide. (according to R.C. Majumdar he was killed). HiS dead body was picked up by the brahmins and buried in sand. One tarter carried the smitten head of Dahir to Kasim and claimed a big prize.
 

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Sind was lost due to internal dissentions and selfish traitors. Raja Dahir neither gave a good account of himself- as peacetime ruler, nor made any grade as a fighter. Kasim, a lad of 16 years, with just 6000 cavalry and 3000 carrier camels, defeated Dahir on his home soil, inspite of his unchallengeable strength of 20,000 infantry, 10,000 mounted soldiers, 80 war elephants and other paraphernalia.

After capturing Devbal and Rawar, Kasim took in his sweep Brahmanabad, the fort town of NirOll, Devan, Thatta (Multan) and reached as far as Kannauj-all in one year. He ruled for two years from 713 to 715 AD. After the death of Dahir, Jai Singh retired to Brahmanabad. However, the queen stayed on in Rawar fort and fought bravely for 3 days, all by herself; even her son Jai Singh did not come to her aid and remained anchored at Brahmanabad. She was no match for the brute force of the enemy and was forced to surrender. The family fort of Rawar fell to the invaders who rehearsed the orgy of plunder, rape and murder. The queen along with hundreds of other maidens voluntarily killed herself by resorting to the edifying rite of Jauhar.

The charming niece of Dahir, Jaisiya, was specially picked up for being presetned to the Caliph to slake his sexual fire. Even after the extirpation of the king and the queen, their sons and skeletal loyal forces kept on showing the flag but it was no display of any strength and only bidding of farewell to an extinguishing era. The war had already been lost, the sun had set over the redolent kingdom of Raja Chach and Raja Dahlr and the door wide opened for the debut of the muslim rule whose writ was to run for many centuries.


After the elimination of Kasim,

Yazeid was appointed the new Governor of Sind by the Caliph. Taking advantage of the power vaccum in the intervening period, Jai Singh struck with all his might. He reconquered Brahmanabad and also recovered a large part of the Sind. To curb his ascendancy, Caliph sent a large force supported by navy to retrieve the lost territory. Jai Singh was killed in the battle and his brothers migrated to Delhi and Punjab. According to historian Molvi Zaka Ullah, Jai Singh was cornered in the Korej Fort by the ruler of a rival state and killed perfidiously in a drinking bout. Jai Singh has been mentioned by various names by the different chroniclers viz., Maharaj, Jaisain, Jaisiya and Helesia. The exodus of Chhibbers from Sind took place at about the same time as that of the Datts from Arabia. After the fall of Sind, the descendants of Raja Dahir, namely Maharaj, Narain, Bhavan, Chham and Jangu moved to P-unjab and established their dominions in different places. They were helped in their rehabilitation by the king of Delhi. Maharaj founded his state at Bhadrawati (or Bhadrawali) on the bank of river Jhelum and the place was also known as Bhera- -not the modern Bhera in District Shahpur situated on the cast side of the river. Some writers have given the name of Burari or Brahampuri (present Wazirabad) as the initial capital of the expatriate Chhibbers. An earlier ruler of Bhadrawati is said to have his jurisdiction upto Ghazni and built a fort there. In ancient India, there were three capitals of the Chhibbers VIZ., Bhera, Karyala and Mirpur in Jammu. Narain became the ruler of Sialkot, Bhavan and Chham were the chiefs of Bhatner (present name Hanuman Garh) situated midway between Bhatinda and Bikaner, while Jangu held a high post in the king\'s court at Delhi.
 

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Sind was lost due to internal dissentions and selfish traitors. Raja Dahir neither gave a good account of himself- as peacetime ruler, nor made any grade as a fighter. Kasim, a lad of 16 years, with just 6000 cavalry and 3000 carrier camels, defeated Dahir on his home soil, inspite of his unchallengeable strength of 20,000 infantry, 10,000 mounted soldiers, 80 war elephants and other paraphernalia.
Numbers are wrong in my opinion.
Please check here - http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/military-history/38277-maharana-pratap-mewar-9.html#post887862
 

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Did Dahir Marry His Sister ?

From Dawn ( Home - DAWN.COM - Latest News, Breaking News, Pakistan News, World News, Business News, Science and Technology News , Entertainment News, Sports News, Cricket News ) "Rajah Dahar of Sindh By Khurram Ali Shafique This is the second in a series of three articles on Queen Suhandi, her son Raja Dahar and the Arab conqueror Muhammad bin Qasim "Whoever marries your sister will become the ruler of Sindh," the astrologers told Dahar, the Rajah of Sindh. Dahar was the eldest son of Chach, the founder of the Brahmin Dynasty in Sindh, and he had inherited lower Sindh. His younger brother, Daharsingh was ruling upper Sindh, and both of them were born of Suhandi, the ambitious wife of Chach. Bai, their sister whose horoscope posed a dilemma for Dahar, was born of a Jatt mother. "The administration of a large kingdom is a delicate matter," said the grand vizier Budhiman to Dahar. "For the sake of their kingdom, kings bring death upon their brothers and relatives or banish them from their country. You should marry your sister, and seat her with you on the throne though you will never consummate the marriage. As she will be called your wedded wife the kingdom will remain with you, according to the astrologers' prediction." When this argument didn't convince Dahar, the grand vizier made a practical demonstration about the so-called collective memory of the people. He laid mud on the back of a sheep, and grew plants on it. When the sheep was paraded through the streets of Aror, it caught everyone's attention. But only for three days! Afterward, the sheep would roam around in the streets and no one would pay heed to it. That much is man' attention span. Much has been said about Dahar's marriage to his sister, but as far as we can gather from recorded history it was a nominal marriage and never consummated. Yet, it earned Dahar a bad reputation, so that his name became proverbial and synonymous with "big mistake" in the Sindhi language. His younger brother, Daharsingh, who was ruling the northern areas of the empire, rose in rebellion, although death overtook him before a decisive battle could settle the affairs between the brothers. The true casualty of this whole affair goes mostly unnoticed by the historians of all schools. The saddest part of the story was perhaps the fact that a young woman was condemned to a life that she did not deserve. Apart from his "big mistake," Dahar certainly possessed some remarkable characteristics. He was exceptionally brave and fearless. There is even a story about how, when a ferocious lion once attacked Dahar's hunting retinue, Dahar wrapped his scarf on his left arm and thrust that arm into the lion's mouth while killing the beast with his right arm. Even if we don't believe this story, we have witnesses to his other acts of bravery, and such witnesses are found even among his enemies, the Arab invaders. As described by the ancient historians, Rajah Dahar is the tragedy of a man who set out to take lessons in being a king. His flaw was his willingness to place his faith in the external factors stars, destiny, enemies and friends. By the time Dahar learnt his lessons, it was too late for him to live like a king. The only option left before him by then was to die like one. Dahar had the opportunity to rule for a long period over his kingdom - almost forty years (c. 668 - 712 AD). Over that period his major achievement was to secure law and order in his land by routing the bandits and banishing them to the seas.
 

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Thats Terribel Rumours about Raja Dahir.. He never Married his Own Sister. He was a Hindu King, and a Hindu never marries into his extended Family or Gotra and let alone his own Sister.

That Rumour was spread by a Local Merchant who was refused Raja Dahir's sister for Marriage. Dahir Himself didnt give his sister to that Local Merchant. And hence that man started spreading Rumour about Dahir and it was picked up by the Arabs.

For i can believe that the Arabs/Mughals spreading rumours about Dahir but what i do not understand it Indians themselves believing it. They should be ashamed of themseleves really.
 

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Backgrounder : Muhamad Bin Qasim

According to tradition, the Umayyad family (also known as the Banu Abd-Shams) and Muhammad both descended from a common ancestor, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai, and they are originally from the city of Mecca. Muhammad descended from Abd Manāf via his son Hashim, while the Umayyads descended from Abd Manaf via a different son, Abd-Shams, whose son was Umayya. The two families are therefore considered to be different clans (those of Hashim and of Umayya, respectively) of the same tribe (that of the Quraish). However Muslim Shia historians point out that Umayya was an adopted son of Abd Shams so he was not a blood relative of Abd Manaf ibn Qusai. Umayya was later discarded from the noble family. The rivalry turned into a severe case of tribal animosity after the Battle of Badr. The battle saw three top leaders of the Umayyad clan (Utba ibn Rabi'ah, Walid ibn Utbah and Shaybah) killed by Hashimites (Ali, Hamza ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib and Ubaydah ibn al-Harith) in a three-on-three melee . Caliph Muawiyah (661–80) was the first to assert the Umayyads' right to rule on a dynastic principle.


The Umayyad Caliphate was the second of the four major Islamic caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was centered on the Umayyad dynasty hailing from Mecca. The Umayyad family had first come to power under the third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan (r. 644–656), but the Umayyad regime was founded by Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, long-time governor of Syria, after the end of the First Muslim Civil War in 661 CE/41 AH and Damascus was their capital. (Umayyad Caliphate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

it is worth discussing briefly that the majority of the Umayyad rulers had deep-seated disdain for Prophet Muhammad because of the sustained and bloody rivalry between Muhammad and Meccan leader Abu Sufyan, father of Mu'awiyah, the first Umayyad Caliph. Mu'awiyah himself was staunchly opposed to Islam. When Muhammad conquered Mecca in 630, Abu Sufyan had to embrace Islam. A large number of Meccans accepted Islam on that day, but Mu'awiyah didn't. The next year, when Allah revealed verse 9:1–5 to force the idolaters to convert to Islam at the pain of death, all Meccans had to embrace Islam but Mu'awiyah didn't; he fled to Yemen. Only after Yemen and entire Arabia was taken by Muslims, Mu'awiyah reluctantly embraced Islam.

Therefore, Mu'awiyah and most Umayyad rulers had little respect for Islam and the Quran. In the battle of Siffin in 657 against fourth Caliph Ali, Mu'awiyah, knowing the kind of reverence Muslims show to the holy Quran, instructed his troops to stick its pages at the tip of their spears. Seeing this, Ali's troops refused to fight and technically lost the battle. Following their ascension to caliphal power, the Umayyads were responsible for the death of many members of Ali's family. In the reign of Mu'awiyah's son Yazid I,Husayn, son of Ali and grandson of Muhammad, was killed in a cruel manner in the battle of Karbala (680).
Husayn had revolted against Yazid's authority and in the confrontation at Karbala, Husayn's troops were cut off from the source of drinking water to avenge the incidence of Badr—in which Muhammad had similarly cut off Abu Sufyan's troops from water. The dismembered heads of the slain men, women and children were brought to the governor of Basra, while the head of Husayn was sent to Caliph Yazid in Damascus for displaying publicly.

(ISLAMIC
JIHAD A Legacy of Forced Conversion,
Imperialism and Slavery
M. A. Khan
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Backgrounder : Muhamad Bin Qasim


Sahih Bikhari [5:91] records of the treatment of the decapitated head of Husayn that 'The head of Al-Husain was brought to 'Ubaidullah bin Ziyad and was put in a tray, and then Ibn Ziyad started playing with a stick at the nose and mouth of Al-Husain's head and saying something about his handsome features.'Mocking Allah's promise in the Quran [14:9] to destroy the rebellious like the way 'the people of Noah, and Ad, and Thamud' were destroyed previously, Caliph al-Walid II (d. 743) tore out that page of the
Quran, stuck on a lance and shot it into pieces by an arrow and challenged: 'Do you rebuke every opponent?
Behold, I am that obstinate opponent! When you appear before your Lord on the day of resurrection; say that
Walid has torn you in this manner.'419 The irreverent Walid II was an 'intensely cultivated man, surrounded with poets, dancing girls, and musicians and lived a merry life of the libertine, with no interest in religion.'

During most of the ninety-year Umayyad rule (660–750), except a short period of relative orthodoxy (715–21), the Umayyad rulers did all kinds of sacrilegious acts to undermine Islam. The only thing the Umayyads had whole-heartedly embraced from the Islamic creed is the doctrine of its war for their conquest. Mu'awiyah—under whom the Islamic world achieved its greatest expansion yet—was a master Arab imperialist. Although, the Umayyads exploited the doctrine of Jihad for their conquest, they never took serious interest in propagating the religion of Muhammad; instead, they opposed the conversion of the vanquished "¦"¦ (or merely cruel expansionists).

(The narration goes that)Abdul Malik, the fifth Umayyad, and father of Walid, the reigning Caliph, had sent agents to India to purchase female slaves and other commodities, and that these agents, on reaching Debul, Dahir's principal seaport, had been attacked and plundered by brigands. It is the results rather than the details of the outrage that are important. Hajjaj sent a letter through Muhammad bin Harun, governor of Mekran, demanding reparation, but Dahir replied that the aggressors were beyond his control, and that he was powerless to punish them. Hajjaj then obtained from Walid permission to send an expedition into Sind and dispatched Ubaidullah against Debul, but he was defeated and slain and Budail, who followed him, shared his fate. Hajjaj, deeply affected by these two failures, fitted out a third expedition, at the head of which he placed his cousin and son-in-law, Imaduddin Muhammad, son of Qasim, a youth of seventeen years of age. (HISTORY OF INDIA - THE ARAB CONQUEST OF SIND)
 
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Backgrounder : Muhamad Bin Qasim


The backgrounder is provided here to understand the historical context and ideological context of Muhammad Bib Qasim, particularly as he is worshipped by Pakistanies as their father.

Pakistan has so much myth built around him that he is only second to God.

The text books that are taught to Pakistani children recount exploits of numerous past Muslim heroes in them. Standing tall amongst these heroes is one Arab by the name of Muhammad bin Qasim, born on 31 December 695 in the city of Taif in modern day Saudi Arabia.

Following are just some of the tokens of Pakistanis' veneration for their hero.

He is sometimes called "the first Pakistani". Port Qasim, Pakistan's second major port is named in his honor. PNS Qasim is the name of a Pakistani Naval ship. Pakistan Army Aviation's home base is called Qasim Base. Qasim is a fairly common first name for Pakistani male children. The day of Yom-e-Babul Islam is observed each year in Pakistan in memory of Muhammad bin Qasim.

(Who Is Our Hero : Raja Daher or Muhammad Bin Qasim? | Indus Asia Online Journal (iaoj))
 

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Thats Terribel Rumours about Raja Dahir.. He never Married his Own Sister. He was a Hindu King, and a Hindu never marries into his extended Family or Gotra and let alone his own Sister.

That Rumour was spread by a Local Merchant who was refused Raja Dahir's sister for Marriage. Dahir Himself didnt give his sister to that Local Merchant. And hence that man started spreading Rumour about Dahir and it was picked up by the Arabs.

For i can believe that the Arabs/Mughals spreading rumours about Dahir but what i do not understand it Indians themselves believing it. They should be ashamed of themseleves really.

History is History and I am narrating it as it is being found without any bias of my own. To support your arguments I quote following :

Indus Tribune – National Hero of Sindh, Maharaja Daahar: Time to expose the real face of Arab Looters

Invasion of Arab looters on such a prosperous secular homeland considered as mother of religions caused Maharaja to fight to death to defend his homeland from being fallen in the hands of Arab Chandals (lizard eater barbarians).
Martyrdom of Maharaja Daahar and complete Arab occupation over Sindh was a beginning to Arab atrocities over Sindh. The wealth and treasures were barbarically looted, mass genocide was executed and women including wives and daughters of Maharaja Daahar were made captives and sold as slave in the slave markets of Arab colonies. Stories of brave fighting Sindhi heroes and martyrs were erased from the history because the Arabs, like every oppressor, wanted to keep Sindhis away from their real history. They converted Sindhi heroes in cowards and highlighted Arabs as civilized and peaceful liberators who perhaps were spreading peace with swords in their hands. Sindhis were greatly maligned in the histories written by Arab conquerors.
Their histories declared Maharaja Daahar traitor, unjust and cruel ruler. They also made it famous that he married his sister etc. These fake stories have become a part of history and have been taught and published then still just to misguide Sindhi people for the sake of imperialist interests. This history is used to spread hatred amongst our people towards the real heroes of Sindh. This is a sort of religious imperialism to justify vested interests of colonialism in the name of faith.

Despite of all these efforts by religious imperialists conscious and literate Sindhis acknowledge Maharaja Daahar their hero and Muhammad Bin Qasim an occupier, invader and barbaric looter. They respect Maharaja as a savior, defender and great martyr of their homeland. Time needs the line to be drawn between the defenders as well as occupiers. Time has come to expose the reality of Arab invasion over Sindh and condemn it while admiring our forgotten national heroes.
Today while Sindh is suffering under the slavery of followers of Muhammad Bin Qasim, the Pujabis, it's our duty to remember our great heroes and convey the real story of their sacrifice and bravery to our generations to encourage them through examples of their ancestors' to rebellion which will set them free from this religious and economic imperialism of Punjab. Our freedom from Punjabi imperialism (Pakistan) will surely construct us a civilized society in return.
 
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Significance of Muhammad Bin Qasim's Arrival : Another View

It is evident from the discussion so far that the Islamic invaders of India brought a totally different code of war, based on the Quran and the Sunnah. Contemporary Muslim historians inform us that, as a general rule,
they used to slay all enemy soldiers on the battlefield. After the victory, they often fell upon the civilian
villages and towns often slaughtering the men of fighting age. They sacked and plundered the households for
booty, and sometimes burned down the villages and towns. Of the civilian population, the Buddhist monks
and priestly Brahmins, in whom the common people reposed their trust, became special targets for
extermination. The centers of infidel religion and learning—namely Hindu and Jain temples, Buddhist
monasteries, Sikh Gurdwaras and indigenous educational institutions—were their prime targets for
desecration, destruction and plunder. The women and children were captured as slaves in large numbers. They
kept the young and beautiful women captives as sex-slaves, others were engaged in household chores, and the
rest were sold. The magnitude of the booty, the captives included, was a measure of the glory and success of
military missions; this is reflected in their glorifying narratives by leading medieval Muslim historians.

( ISLAMIC JIHAD, A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery, M. A. Khan. Felibri.com)
 

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History is History and I am narrating it as it is being found without any bias of my own. To support your arguments I quote following :

Indus Tribune – National Hero of Sindh, Maharaja Daahar: Time to expose the real face of Arab Looters

Invasion of Arab looters on such a prosperous secular homeland considered as mother of religions caused Maharaja to fight to death to defend his homeland from being fallen in the hands of Arab Chandals (lizard eater barbarians).
Martyrdom of Maharaja Daahar and complete Arab occupation over Sindh was a beginning to Arab atrocities over Sindh. The wealth and treasures were barbarically looted, mass genocide was executed and women including wives and daughters of Maharaja Daahar were made captives and sold as slave in the slave markets of Arab colonies. Stories of brave fighting Sindhi heroes and martyrs were erased from the history because the Arabs, like every oppressor, wanted to keep Sindhis away from their real history. They converted Sindhi heroes in cowards and highlighted Arabs as civilized and peaceful liberators who perhaps were spreading peace with swords in their hands. Sindhis were greatly maligned in the histories written by Arab conquerors.
Their histories declared Maharaja Daahar traitor, unjust and cruel ruler. They also made it famous that he married his sister etc. These fake stories have become a part of history and have been taught and published then still just to misguide Sindhi people for the sake of imperialist interests. This history is used to spread hatred amongst our people towards the real heroes of Sindh. This is a sort of religious imperialism to justify vested interests of colonialism in the name of faith.

That History is False. And specially written by the Arab Looters who never had any Morals or Ideals, its a crime to even mention them let alone asking for an analysis over It.

And Kasim had taken help of North African,Turkish and what not Muslims to finally Invade SIndh, whereas Dahir and Sindh had thwarted them time and again with just their Local Army. They didnt take help from even fellow Kshatriyas in the interiors.

If i have to give my Honest Opinion, Dahir should have attacked Quasim once instead of all the time defending against him

Because if a criminal is hell bent on attacking a strong man, then after defending himself for the umpteenth time the strong man is going to fall against the Criminal one last time;

Instead the strong Man should attack the criminal and once and for all Killed the criminal and ended the story.

Both Dahir and Prithvi Raj Chauhan made the same mistake.
 

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That History is False. And specially written by the Arab Looters who never had any Morals or Ideals, its a crime to even mention them let alone asking for an analysis over It.

And Kasim had taken help of North African,Turkish and what not Muslims to finally Invade SIndh, whereas Dahir and Sindh had thwarted them time and again with just their Local Army. They didnt take help from even fellow Kshatriyas in the interiors.

If i have to give my Honest Opinion, Dahir should have attacked Quasim once instead of all the time defending against him

Because if a criminal is hell bent on attacking a strong man, then after defending himself for the umpteenth time the strong man is going to fall against the Criminal one last time;

Instead the strong Man should attack the criminal and once and for all Killed the criminal and ended the story.

Both Dahir and Prithvi Raj Chauhan made the same mistake.
It is my endeavour to present both points of views.

When I started the thread, I never realised that MBQ and Rja Dahir are so controversial figures in the history of subcontinent. And within Pakistan itself .
 

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GM Syed On Muhammad Bin Qasim
@Ajesh you brought me earlier to this than I wished. But do not mind, its OK.

About Sindh's history, during the days of Arab Imperialism, at the time of the invasion of "Muhammad-Bin-Qasim", it is said, some of the local people, in order to please Muhammad-BinQasim proved traitors and supported this foreign imperialist. Similarly in the time of invasion of Khilji Emperor,"¦.


"¦.. If you read history, you will find that Muhammad-Bin-Qasim, the so-called captain, on conquering the country, looted crores of rupees from Sindh and thousands of men and women were made slaves for the benefit of Arab soldiers or those slave girls He ordered all the persons who did not surrender to the new invaders, to be killed
and their property looted. Look at the same peoples of Sindh, who on the misleading of Arabs, now consider
Muhammad-Bin-Qasim the champion of Islam. People celebrated his days but the person who sacrificed his life
for his country and had many qualities, is called a Kafir. Many false stories are fabricated to malign Raja Dahir.


"¦"¦"¦"¦"¦. Everybody who knows history that Muhammad-Bin-Qasim was a servant of the Bani-Ummaiya rulers, who had done many things against the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him and his progeny) and desecrated "Ka'aba", and the holy stone was smashed into four pieces. After killing Abdullah Bin Zubair within the Ka'aba and hung his dead body on the gate of Ka'aba. Hijaj Bin Yousuf, were person who had killed on Friday within the "KOOFA MOSQUE...

thousands including several Hafiz of Qura'an (Reciters of Qura'an) and companions of the Prophet and some pious
Muslims. The same Muhammad-Bin-Qasim had made slaves 30,000 men and girls of Sindh and sold them in Arabia, and looted over 40,000,000.00 (Rupees Forty Crores) and sent to Arabia and is said to have committed rape on Raja Dahir's two daughters. Can such a person be called a Muslim Mujahid (crusader)? Can libraries, colleges, roads and ports be named after him? Can such a man give a good name to Islam? The so-called custodians of Islam (Punjabis) and their Sindhi and non-Sindhi followers, who foster such an Islam, consider Muhammad-Bin Qasim the conqueror of Sindh and a hero of Muslims. If this is the criteria for a hero of the Muslims, then of course these pseudo-Muslims of the Punjabi ruling clique can think and do whatever they like beneath the banner of Islam and Islamisation as in the past, Arab Imperialist servants like Muhammad-Bin-Qasim and others had been doing.
 
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