The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 1.4

1.4

(and He best knoweth those who will submit to be directed)’ ‘O Muhammad, on whom and on whose children be the blessings of God, and peace, whenever We call any person to Us, he will come to our court by your calling him, and whenever We drive away any person from Our court, no being will be able to call him back to Us. When We created man, We exclaimed ‘Am not I thy Lord’? The appointed souls with the excessive desire of fulfilling the words, ‘They answered yea,’ bent low on their knees, and acknowledged Our unity. We shall shine conspicuously on the servants of the kingdom of Muhammad (on whom and on whose descendants be the blessings of God and peace), and in the reign of that favourite of ours, in order that, through his intercession and importunity, they may be invested with the honour of Islam, while all those who would disobey Us and make excuses and pretexts for (such disobedience), will be denounced as infidels and misguided beings, and in accordance with Our order; ‘Wage war against the infidels and hypocrites,’ and in obedience to Our hint,—‘Kill the idolators wheresoever ye shall find them,’ will be made the food of blood-thirsty swords and heart-piercing spears and arrows. The accounts of the conquests of Khurásán, Ajam, Irak, Sham, Rúm and Hind will be entered in records, and the memory of these will, for ever, remain on the margins of time; and God knows best the right thing.”