"Because of the shortage of stone, people scurried hither and thither throughout the kingdom in search of it. Some struck the base of mountains, so much were they enamoured of their search for stone that they tore at the mountain like lovers. Some were keener than steel in up- rooting the foundations of unbelief. Having sharpened their steels they applied them in holy war to the idol temples of the rais and with blows of iron they devoted their strength with as much vigour as possible to the breaking of the stones. Wherever an idol temple had engaged in an act of devotion the strong tongue of the spade in well founded argument removed the foundations of infidelity from the heart so that, at once, that idol temple in gratitude performed the Muslim rite of bowing in prayer."
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Amir Khusrow
1253 â 1325
Ab'ul Hasan YamÄ«n ud-DÄ«n Khusrau (1253 â 1325), better known as AmÄ«r Khusrow DehlavÄ«, was a Sufi musician, poet and scholar from the Indian subcontinent.
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