@mods Please move this to appropriate thread:
Raja Dahir was the last Hindu King of Sindh. He fought against the islamic arab invader Bin Qasim.
By enlisting the support of local tribes such as the Meds and also the support of the Buddhist rulers of Nerun, Bajhra, Kaka Kolak and Siwistan as infantry to his predominantly-mounted army, Muhammad bin Qasim defeated Dahir and captured his eastern territories which were added into the Ummayad Caliphate.
Sometime before the final battle, Dahir's vizier approached him and suggested that Dahir should take refuge with one of the friendly kings of India. "You should say to them, 'I am a wall between you and the Arab army. If I fall, nothing will stop your destruction at their hands.'" If that wasn't acceptable to Dahir, said the vizier, then he should at least send away his family to some safe point in India. Dahir refused to do either. "I cannot send away my family to security while the families of my thakurs and nobles remain here."
I wanted to share his words. More than a thousand years later, we've seen how it turned out.
Sindh, by extension, Pakistan, was indeed the wall between India and Arab. When we lost Pakistan, we lost the protection against invaders.
It's sad. Fellow Hindu Kingdoms didn't help him when an outsider destroyed Sindh. India ws was the richest back then. Number 1.
What use?
We had chances. When the punjab, pakistan and other border states were attacked. No one helped those kings. The future generations paid the consequences.
The price was far higher than what any of those kings could've imagined. Bharat lost 30% of its land. Its influence in asia and South East Asia waned. It had to fight the invaders for nearly 800 years. And after a very tiring victory, it was preyed upon by a very intellectual enemy that damaged the very foundations of its civilizations.
The cause and effect is clear. There was no course correction in between.
What's sad is that today's Pakistanis, and Sindhis, the same people for whom this great king died hate Bharat, their own motherland. They call themselves different from us. They pick their religion first—religion that gave them nothing but misery, pain and poverty—over this fertile land.
Good doesn't wins over bad by itself. The victory has to be earned. The war has to be fought.
Cause and effect, Karma without morality, we are where we are today because of the clear consequences the people of this land, no, the rulers of these people, took a thousand years ago.
Similarly, the fate our next generation lies in our hands.