The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 34.11

34.11

“It is quite clear,” said Dahar to the messenger sent to the Arab General, “it is quite clear that the end of the whole of your enterprise has after all proved miserable and ignoble, and through your indiscreet behaviour the relations between you and us have become very much strained. Provisions are scarce in your camp, now. If you repent and come to terms, I may send you (the necessary) supplies, so that your companions may not die of hunger and want. Look now. Whom have you, to stand against us and fight with us? And what of your military appliances now?” Muhammad Kasim replied: “I am not one of those leaders who would turn back on this account. I can only come to terms and make peace with you, when you send to the Treasury of the Khalifah the tribute of the many years that you have been so long obdurately withholding and and stubbornly evading. Otherwise, with the help of the great God, I shall take your head to Irak.”