"A few days later, he said that a big temple existed close to the graveyards of the Sayyids and Shaykh Bahauíd-Din.1 Many infidels, polytheists and corrupt persons invariably assembled there and performed the blasphemous rites of infidelity and heresy. In Kashmiri it was called Bomeh Swami.2 He said that pulling down the temple and destroying it was incumbent upon the Muslims. He came in person to supervise the demolition of the temple. Stones and earth at the site were heaped into a small mound on which a platform was raised equal to a manís height. A mosque was constructed on it and a muíezzin was appointed. Shaykh Daniyal gave this place to Malik Regi Chak for burying the dead of his family and close relatives and friends. The dead of his (Regi Chakís) 1 clan remain buried here. The infidels and polytheists considered both of those temples sacred."
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Tohfatu'l-Ahbab
Tohfatu'l-Ahbab is a Farsi work by Muhammad Ali Kashmiri, presumably written in 1642. It is the biography of Shamsu'd-Din Muhammad Araki, a Shi'a Muslim missionary, who visited Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan in the 15th and 16th century. Araki was the founder of the Nurbakhshiyyeh Sufi order in Kashmir.
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