Zaid Hamid:BrassTacks-Yeh Ghazi Episode9; Muhammad Ibn Qasim Part3

BrassTacks program Yeh Ghazi on Timeline of the Muslim History. In this episode Zaid Hamid discusses the advent of Islam in

the Indian Subcontinent through Muhammad Ibn Qasim. Muhammad bin Qasim was born around 695. His father died when he was

young, leaving Qasim's mother in charge of his education. Umayyad governor Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef was one of Qasim's close

relatives, and was instrumental in teaching Qasim about warfare and governing. At the age of seventeen, he was sent by Caliph

Al-Walid I to lead an army into India in what is today the Sindh area of Pakistan. He was successful, rapidly taking all of

Sindh and moving into southern Punjab up to Multan. Muhammad bin Qasim's armies defeated Raja Dahir at what is now Hyderabad

in Sindh and established Islamic rule
Besides being a great general, Muhammad bin Qasim was also an excellent administrator. He established peace and order as well

as a good administrative structure in the areas he conquered. He was a kind hearted and religious person. He had great

respect for other religions. Hindu and Buddhist spiritual leaders were given stipends during his rule. The poor people of the

land were greatly impressed by his policies and a number of them embraced Islam. Those who stuck to their old religions

erected statues in his honor and started worshiping him after his departure from their land.
Muhammad bin Qasim had begun preparations for further expansions when Hajjaj died, as did Caliph Al-Walid I, who was

succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik.Suleiman, was a political enemy of Hajjaj and recalled Qasim to Damascus. He could

have easily refused to obey the Caliph's orders and declare his independence in Sindh.Yet he was of the view that obeying

ones ruler is the duty of a general and thus he decided to go back to the center.He was imprisoned & was subsequently executed at the age of twenty.

"Muhammad Bin Qasim was the first citizen of Pakistan."




Yeh Ghazi Yeh Teray Pur Asrar Banday
Jinhain Tunay Bakhsha hai Zauq-e-Khudai

Do Neem Un ki Thokar say Sahra o Darya
Simat kar Pahaar In ki Haybat say Rayi

Do Aalam say Karti hai Baygaana Dil ko
Ajab cheez hai Lazzat-e-Aashnayi

Shahadat hai Matloob o Maqsood-e-Momin
Na Maal-e-Ghaneemat na Kishwar Kushayi

Dilay Mard-e-Momin main phir zinda kar day
Woh Bijli thi keh Na'ara-e-La Tadar main

Azayim ko seenom main baydaar kar day
Nigha-e-Muslim ko Talwar kar day

(Iqbal)

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[marathonrace]

allah o akbar

[hammad78]

Great hero of Islam Muhamamd bin Qasim

[skg1984]

PAKIS R THE NAJAYAZ AULADS OF ARABS

[thegame1857]

No.... he is not a terrorist... kafir kabhi b musalman ka hamdard ne ban sakta...agar ye terrorist hai to america kya kar rha hai iraaq mai? afganistan mai.. kashmir k sath kya ho rha hai india mai...kon hai terrorist....?muslims or non muslims..?think it...

[thegame1857]

No.... he is not a terrorist... kafir kabhi b musalman ka hamdard ne ban sakta...agar ye terrorist hai to america kya kar rha hai iraaq mai? afganistan mai.. kashmir k sath kya ho rha hai india mai...kon hai terrorist....?muslims or non muslims..?think it...

[taadhi2003]

This zaid hamid (terrorists) supporter of mujahedeen..spreading hatred against non muslims..

[sofamp3]

@thescorpionking2010 and killing lower caste hindus for good luck is justified? muslims stopped all that and gave hindus which they never had. "honour and freedom".

[sofamp3]

@thescorpionking2010 it were the hindus of sidh who took muslims women and children as slaves muslims went there to free them. tit for tat. whta's wrong with that. you scratch our back we scratch yours. 1st of all. islam stopped burning women alive, giveing humansacrifice of black godess. shame on you for supporting such a barbaric religion. what you people have been doing in india with minorioties specially muslims burnign them alive and burnign their mosques is humane? killin shuddras

[sofamp3]

@thescorpionking2010 raja dahir's people were al;readysick tired of them. muslims became their messiah. gave them freedom, honour which their hindu kings had taken away from them. bin qasim was called cuz his uncle was one of the greates foe of the new caliph and so he expressed his anger on him, he always also feared by qasim's popularity in sindh and hence had him killed yu need serious education.

[sofamp3]

@thescorpionking2010 i think it's hinduism that shouldn't exist in the world. and my illeterate friend like i said sindh remains the largest hindu populated area in pakistan. so your argument has no facts to support it's something you read in the books in india and beleived it, later on they were fed to your useless brain by your "idiot elders" as "bed time stories".

[sofamp3]

@thescorpionking2010 you say that they were converted bythe edge of sword? then it means all of sindh must be muslims right? then why in sindh today some cities are stilll hindu majority and sindh remians the land of largest hindu population in sindh who have been living there since islam came to india. now this si something that you people always say but alas yu can't proove it.

[thescorpionking2010]

muslims covetretd gentle n loving sindhi people into muslims at the point of sword by inflicting heavy taxes and takin sindhi people as slaves who wud convert to islam to get thr freedom,the governer who succeeded bin qasim prohibited idolatry nd estroyed more than 2000 temples and buddhist monastries,orders wer passsed to destroy all idosl mad eof gold and silver anyway by the 9th century sindh ws neraly free of muslims rule due to the efforts of hindu rajputs