"Musa Raina was deeply moved by the sight of Arakiís impatience and chagrin, and the wounded sufis and dervishes. He accompanied Araki on the mission of demolishing the temple. Malik Musa Raina sent his son Malik ëAli Raina to arrest the leading personalities of the infidels. Many of them were sent to prisons and many were banished to the regions of Hindostan and Jammu. Araki then engaged himself in the demolition of the temple. Even the smallest trace of the temple was effaced. The stone-idols were broken into pieces and crushed. Wooden idols were set on fire and the temple complex was inundated. After destroying the temple completely traces of not even a single stone were left behind; stones and earth were removed from the site of the temple and the ground was levelled. After completing the construction of a mosque on the site, Araki appointed an Imam to lead prayer assemblies and also a caller for prayers (muíezzin). He gave it the name Islampora. Sayyid Badla Sayyid Badla reports, ìOne day, I came to the presence of Amir Shamsuíd-Din Araki. He was preparing to leave his place of residence along with a group of sufis. They were about to proceed on the mission of demolishing a temple called Bakhi Renu (?). I also joined the band of his followers. When we reached the site, I found a big crowd of people busy enjoying themselves and indulging in merry-making. Sufis baton-charged and dispersed them. After some time, many people came from the regions of Udaran 1 (?), and Sipahiyan-e-Hind (?) 1 , all equipped with war material. They were ready for a battle. We came close to them. I found that Araki stood in front of the infidels like a hungry tiger ready to pounce on the flock of goats. Every kafir, with a sword in his hand, was moving towards Araki and beating the earth with sticks. A contingent of the sufis followed Araki. They made a charge on the enemy and overpowered them. This was followed by the demolition of the temple. From among the infidels of Udran, three or four tried to obstruct Araki. Amir Sayyid Badla turned to this writer and said that my father had become a shield for Araki in the manner of a moth making rounds of a burning candle. The infidels dealt repeated blows on Araki but my father warded off each stroke and did not allow him to go a single step forward. The contingent of the sufis engaged the infidels. We saw that the infidels were receiving reinforcement intermittently and their fighting strength was increasing numerically. Some of us received wounds and some others showed signs of exhaustion. Thus all the sufis headed towards Zaldagar. 2 A large crowd of infidels gathered on the battleground. The sufis wanted to come back from Zaldagar and fight against the infidels. However, this writerís father stopped them from makng that move. One of his hands was wounded but despite that he held Araki with both hands and did not let him move forward."
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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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