When the Turkish Hindus, Buddhists of Central Asia were being forcibly converted on the strength of the sword and they were being enslaved like sheep and goats, there was a converted slave in the same group of slaves, Qutubuddin, who was bought in Nimishpur, Qazi Fakhruddin Abdul of Nimishpur It was sold to Aziz at a throwaway price. Qazi taught him the Qur'an and taught him to fight jihad against the infidels and to slaughter the infidels.
Then the Qazi sold that ugly Qutubuddin to a merchant. Thus he was bought and sold many times. During this time someone had broken his little finger, due to which people added the disability indicator word Aibak (Aibak from physical flaws) with his name and he became Qutubuddin Aibak. With increasing age, his ability to rob and slaughter the infidels was also increasing, so his value was also increasing.
By the time he reached Mohammad Ghori, he had become a fully alive devil and was ready to commit whatever vile, violent act he was. Mohammad Ghori recognized his plunder, violence and audacity very well and gifted him the region of Kahram by making him the hero of a small contingent of cavalry.
Historian Purushottam Nagesh Oak writes, "Ghori started his dastardly attack on India 16 years ago. His slave Qutubuddin showed great enthusiasm. He was ready to follow in the blood-stained footsteps of his master to destroy the peace-loving, semi-sleepy Hindu civilization.
Historian Hasan Nizami, praising Qutubuddin in his book Tajul-ma-Asir, writes that, "Qutubuddin Aibak is the pillar of Muslim and Islam ... the destroyer of the infidels, ... he uprooted the enemies (Hindus) of religion and state. He put it in throwing, .. He made the land of Hind so drenched with the blood of the heart of those people that on the day of Judgment, the believers would have to cross the river of blood only by boats. The beheading of the crown princes made him the crown of crucifixes. With the mighty water of his sword, he threw the whole world of idolaters into the fire of Hell. In place of statues and idols, the foundation of mosque and madrasa was laid. His plundering and slaughtering was mussel (continuous). (Page 229, Part 2, Elliot and Dawson)
Qutubuddin attacked Meerut in 1191 AD. Historian Hasan Nizami writes, "When he reached Meerut, a ravine as wide and deep as the ocean, vast and a famous fort throughout India for the strength of the foundation, that fort was taken. A Kotwal was appointed in the fort and all the idol-temples were converted into mosques.”
“After taking Meerut, Qutubuddin proceeded towards Delhi which was a source of wealth and a source of opulence. Qutbuddin destroyed and destroyed that city. Freed the city and its adjoining area from idols and idol-worshippers, built mosques in place of gods."
The ancient temple site built by Emperor Vikramaditya in Mihirpur (Mehrauli) area of Delhi, where there were a constellation observation pillar and 27 temples symbolizing the constellations, including the temple of Lord Vishnu, destroyed them and made the Vishnu temple a Quwwat-ul-Islam (strength of Islam) mosque. In the meantime, when he asked his men about that tall pillar, what it was, his soldiers found out and told that it is 'Qutub Minar' i.e. the pillar of constellation observation (or pole pillar).
Qutubuddin tried to break that pole pillar too but he was not completely successful. He must have succeeded in breaking the Brahma Kamal which was on the upper storey or peak (PN Oak). Before leaving, he has inscribed an inscription on a section of the circle leading to the Iron Pillar that he has destroyed and destroyed the 27 forums around the stone pillar (that is, the pillar was not destroyed which is called by the Archaeological Survey of India). India's report has also been proved). Later Iltutmish repaired it and pasted Arabic inscriptions on it (ASI report) and probably during the time of Tughlaq rulers two clumsy storeys have been constructed above the pole pillar.
Click on the link below to read the report of Archaeological Survey of India related to Qutub Minar.
When Qutubuddin was in Ajayameru, the ruler of Delhi again captured Delhi and gathered the Hindus and attacked Qutubuddin. A fierce battle ensued but the Hindu army was defeated. On his return to Delhi, Qutubuddin again massacred the Hindus. In 1194 AD he traveled towards Kol and Varanasi. According to Hasan Nizami, “Kol was the most famous fort of Hind. In the guard troops there, “those who were intelligent converted to Islam, but those who stuck to their ancient religion, they were made Halal. The Muslims entered the fort and collected a lot of treasure and innumerable loot, including a thousand horses.
Campaign against Jaichand
Meanwhile, a huge gang of white Muslim robbers came to India. He sent forward a detachment of his robber army under the control of Qutubuddin, whose job was to plunder unsafe cities and countryside, burn barns, crush standing crops, poison water bodies, drag Hindu women into Muslim harems, Hindu Defile the temples and topple the obstructions. After completing his work, Qutubuddin came back to Ghori.
Historian Purushottam Nagesh Oak writes, “Jaichand, who supported Mohammad Ghori against Prithviraj Chauhan, was stunned to see that Muslims are fierce enemies of every Hindu, which it is their sacred duty to destroy one by one. Enraged by the deceit of a treacherous Muslim friend, Jaichand took his army and collided with him. He fell down from the pool with a poisonous Muslim arrow."
The Muslim historian writes, “He was brought to the commander with his head raised at the tip of the spear, his body was washed away in the dust of hatred…. The sin of paganism was cleansed from that land with the water of the sword and Hind The country was freed from unrighteousness and superstition. A lot of loot was found..The fort was captured."
Temples destroyed by Qutubuddin Aibak
The book of the historian Muhammad Hasan Nizami, who came to India after fleeing the fear of the Mongols from the Nishapur city of Khorasan, describes the destruction of the following temples in India by the looter Mohammad Ghori and his slave Qutubuddin Aibak or making them mosques. gives details. He writes:
- In Ajmer, Sultan Muhammad Ghori destroyed the foundations and pillars of the temples and built mosques and madrasas there and established the ideology, customs and rules of Islam there.
- The government of Kohram and the fort of Samana in Punjab was handed over to Qutubuddin by the Sultan (Ghori). With his sword he cleansed the land of Hind from the filth of idolatry and evil, and freed it from the thorns of the abundance of God, and from the impurity of idolatry and from his royal power and fearlessness, not a single temple was left standing.
- "Qutubuddin departed from Kohram and when he reached Meerut, which is one of the famous forts of the Indian country for the strength of its foundation and superstructure, and its moat, which was wide and immeasurable as the sea, was one of the An army sent by dependent chiefs joined him. The fort was captured, and a Kotwal was appointed to take his place in the fort, and all the idol temples were converted into mosques."
- "Then they marched and camped under the fort of Delhi ... the city and its surroundings were freed from idols and idol-worship, and mosques were built by a priest of Allah in the sanctuaries of the images of the gods . Qutbuddin built the Jami Masjid in Delhi and decorated it with stones and gold recovered from temples that had been broken by elephants, and covered it with inscriptions in Togra, which contained divine orders."
- “From that place (Asni) the royal army advanced towards Benares which is the center of Hind Desh and here they destroyed about 1000 temples, erected mosques on their foundations and the knowledge of law was promulgated, and The foundations of religion were established. This area was freed from idols and idol-worshippers and the foundation of Kafirpan was destroyed,” that is, Hindus were converted to Muslims by destroying or desecrating all temples.
- “(Aligarh) There was a tribe in the neighborhood of Kol who had faced a lot of trouble. There were three bastions here whose heads were raised as high as heaven. Their (Hindu's) carcasses had become food for the animals of the prey. That path was cleared of idols and idol-worship, and the foundation of idolaters was destroyed."
- “When Qutbuddin heard about the march of the Sultan of Ghazni, he was overjoyed and proceeded to Hansi to meet him. In AD 1196, he marched towards Thangar, and the hellish center of (in earnest) idolatry became the abode of glory and splendor."
- “(in Kalinjar) In 1202 AD, Qutbuddin proceeded to Kalinjar, on the expedition he was accompanied by Shamsu-din Altamash… the temples there were converted into mosques and holy residences…and those calling for azan The voices of the Lord ascended to the high heavens, and the very name of idolatry was annihilated." (Source:Hindu Temples what happened to them and Iliad and Dowson)
Other attacks by Qutubuddin on India
In 1192, the combined forces of Mohammad Ghori and Qutubuddin Aibak surrounded Bayana fort and started committing atrocities, loot and violence on innocent people as has been done in the context of Kannauj above. Kunwar Pal surrendered to save his endangered subjects from rape, murder, loot, kidnapping and arson.
Then they proceeded towards Gwalior. Gwalior's ruler Sulakshanapal did such a formidable battle that Gauri's pride was shattered and she had to run back. The plundered Gauri returned to Ghazni and Qutubuddin went to Delhi. At the same time, the army of Hindus was gathering under the leadership of the Anhilwad ruler and Qutubuddin was surrounded. When he sent Ghazni message, he reached India with Ghori army but could not muster up the courage to attack Anhilwad. Then the Hindu army left the mountainous places and broke on the Muslim army, due to which the invaders had to take shelter in Ajayameru and from there returned to Delhi.
In 1202 AD, Qutbuddin laid siege to Kalinjar fort but was badly defeated. The second time the Muslims attacked with a much larger army. Ajdev, the chief minister of the deceased ruler, defended the fort with great valor, but the Muslim army was successful in capturing the fort with deceit. Then there too "temples were made mosques and the idols of the gods were destroyed even to the hilt. The noose of slavery was tightened around the necks of fifty thousand people and the whole land became bloody with the blood of Hindus. (Elliott and Dawson, Volume II, p. 239)
After that Qutubuddin attacked Mahoba and was badly defeated. A similar effort was also made on Badaun, which was the mother of cities and one of the main cities of the Indian country.
Sultan Qutbuddin Aibak
On the other hand, the brave Hindu Khokkars had kept Mohammad Ghori to a halt. Loot Pita Ghori camped in Lahore and then went back towards Ghazni. On their return, these people had put their camp in a garden near Damyak. It was here that the looter Shaitan Mohammad Ghori Veer was killed by a detachment of the Hindu army, which was eliminating the Muslim robbers from the neighboring areas.
After Ghori was killed, Qutbuddin Aibak declared himself the Sultan in Lahore in 1206 AD, which was opposed by Ghori's nephew and Ghazni's ruler Tajuddin, but in a direct battle he was defeated by Qutubuddin and fled. On June 26, 1206, he was crowned king with the solemnity in Delhi.
Historian Purushottam Nagesh Oak writes, “That day in the history of India turned dark because on that day the ancient sacred Hindu throne, which was sanctified and adorned by such narrators as the Pandavas, Lord Krishna and Vikramaditya, by a detestable foreign Muslim, Which was bought and sold many times in the slave markets of West Asia, defiled and tarnished.
Qutbuddin Aibak died after falling from a horse while playing Chaugan in Lahore in the early days of November, 1210 AD. The sharp part of the foot of the horse's gene had sunk into its chest.
Base Text:
- Muslim Sultan in India, author - Purushottam Nagesh Oak
- Tajul-Ma-Asir, Author-Hasan Nizami
- The Iliad and Dawson, Volume II
- Hindu Temples what happened to them, etc.