The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 30.5

30.5

I consider it my bounden duty to carry on this religious war, in obedience to the orders of God who says in the Koran: ‘wage war against the infidels and dissemblers’; and I have undertaken this task simply to secure divine pleasure. I expect fully from the unbounded kindness of God, that He will help us and give us victory over you. God’s will be done. Written in the 73rd year.” The narrators of traditions and the recorders of histories have stated on the authority of Bananah son of Hantilah Kilabi that, when the conquest of Debal was complete and large spoils were secured, Muhammad Kasim ordered the battering rams to be put in boats and taken to the fort of Nerun. Accordingly the boats (with their burden) were put under way in the lake, called the lake of Sangrah, while he himself went by way of Sisam. When he arrived at Sisam, he received Hajjáj's letter, in reply to his own letters respecting his first victory. "From Hajjáj son of Yúsif. O Muhammad Kásim, you must know that our mind assures us that our wishes and hopes will be fulfilled, and you will be successful in every way. You will be successful and victorious, and by the grace of God, the great and glorious, your enemies will soon be vanquished and punished and will repeatedly be overtaken by present torment and future misery. Do not, pray, entertain the evil thought that all those elephants and horses and wealth and other property of your enemies will be your lot.