"They [Hindus] totally differ from us in religion, as we believe in nothing in which they believe, and vice versa.… There is very little disputing about theological topics among themselves; at the most they fight with words, but they will never stake their soul or body or their property on religious controversy. ... in all manners and usages they differ from us to such a degree as to frighten their children with us… and as to declare us to be devil’s breed and our doings as the very opposite of all that is good and proper, ....they call all foreigners as mleccha, i.e. impure, and forbid having any connection with them, be it by intermarriage or any other kind of relationship, or by sitting, eating, and drinking with them, because thereby they think, they would be polluted… They are not allowed to receive anybody who does not belong to them, even if he wished it, or was inclined to their religion."
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Alberuni, I, pp.19-20. quoted from K.S. Lal, Indian Muslims who are they, 1990. Alberuni, I, pp.19-20.
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