"Having lifted Islam to the head, You have engulfed Hindustan in dread.... Such cruelties have they inflicted, and yet Your mercy remains unmoved.... Should the strong attack the strong the heart does not burn. But when the strong crush the helpless, surely the One who was to protect them has to be called to account.... O' Lord, these dogs have destroyed this diamond-like Hindustan, (so great is their terror that) no one asks after those who have been killed, and yet You do not pay heed..."
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Guru Arjan, Guru Granth Sahib, Mahla 1, 360, quoted in Arun Shourie, "The Litmus Test of Whether Your History is Secular" [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605191601/http://arunshourie.voiceofdharma.com/print/19981020.htm and in Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins, 2014)
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