"It is acknowledged that all your procedures have been in accordance with religious law (bar jādah-yi shar‘) except for the one practice of giving amān. For you are giving amān to everyone without distinguishing between friend and foe."
— Muhammad ibn Qasim

January 1, 1970

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From a letter by Al-Hajjāj to Muhammad bin Qasim (written after the conquesr of Rāwar), Chachnāmah, as quoted in Derryl N. MacLean, Religion and Society in Arab Sind (Brill, 1989), p. 39.