The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 47.6

47.6

When the Khalifah heard all this, he was so much overpowered by grief, that he bit the back of his hand. The Princess Janki then once more attempted to speak, and looking at the Khalifah and finding that he was much enraged, said: "The king has committed a great blunder, since for the sake of two slave girls he has killed a man who captured a hundred thousand noble girls like us, brought down seventy kings, who were rulers of Hind and Sind from a royal throne to a bier, and built mosques and minarets in place of idol-houses and temples. Even if it be assumed that he did some slight mischief or was guilty of an indent, act, Muhammad Kasim should not have been killed simply on the slanderous word of a malicious individual.” The Khalifah immediately ordered the two sisters to be buried alive in a wall. From that time up to our own days, the banner of Islam has been rising higher and higher and gaining greater and greater glory day by day. May the sovereign of highest dignity and of the holiest names, keep the past kings of Islam drowned in the ocean of His mercy, and the present kings steadfast on the thrones of their kingdoms, as long as the universe lasts and time continues, and until the period of life, given to Adam’s children, comes to its close; and may He with his divine grace and help, protect the banners of Islam, through their power and awe, from accidental misfortunes and evil auguries of the time.