Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them v2.c19.s3.4

v2.c19.s3.4

It seems, however, that these merchants, traders, sea-men and missionaries were not satisfied with the situation obtaining under Hindu rule. They kept looking forward to the day when the *Dar al-Harb* (land of the infidels against which Muslims are obliged to wage war) that was Gujarat would become *Dar al-Islam* (land of the faithful). The evidence of how these Muslim settlers worked as sappers and miners of Islamic invasions of Gujarat remains to be collected from Muslim annals. Here we are citing an inscription from Prabhas Patan, the city which was famous for its temple of Somanatha.