The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c12.s2.2

c12.s2.2

For temples were not broken only during war, but in times of peace too. Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq writes: I destroyed their idol temples, and instead thereof raised mosques where infidels and idolaters worshipped idols, Musalmans now, by Gods mercy, perform their devotion to the true God.⁹ And so said and did Sikandar Lodi, Shahjahan,¹⁰ Aurangzeb and Tipu Sultan. Shams Siraj Afif writes that some sovereigns like Muhammad Tughlaq and Firoz Tughlaq were specially chosen by the Al-mighty from among the faithful, and in the whole course of their reigns, whenever they took an idol temple, they broke and destroyed it.¹¹