التاريخ اليميني 46.19

46.19

The Sultan [223 b] then went through the fortresses of Qanauj, and they proved to be seven, set on the said water like the swollen sea. In them were nearly ten thousand idol-temples, which the polytheists claim have been handed down for two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand years—a lie and a falsehood, a sinful saying, a departure from the paths of guidance and an act of unbelief. According to their antiquity was their worship of them and their tearful pleading with them in prayer. Most of their people had fled from them for fear of widowhood and orphanhood and of the punishment that would befall their deaf and dumb gods; so some escaped, rescued by their flight, and some stayed, destroyed by their staying, neither their earth nor their heaven saving them from the swords of truth. He conquered them all in a single day, then gave them over to the men of his army to plunder freely and lawfully, and to take turns subduing and humbling them.