Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c7.10

c7.10

In a letter Hajjaj instructed Muhammad bin Qasim on how to deal with the adversary. The way of granting pardon prescribed by law is that when you encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads make a great slaughter among them (Those that survive) bind them in bonds grant pardon to no one of the enemy and spare none of them etc., etc.¹⁴ The lives of some prisoners could be spared, but they could not be released. That is how the Arab invaders of Sindh could enslave thousands of men and women at Debal, Rawar and Brahmanabad. At Brahmanabad, after many people were killed, all prisoners of or under the age of 30 years were put in chains All the other people capable of bearing arms were beheaded and their followers and dependents were made prisoners.¹⁵