"The mosque bore the telling name Quwwat-ul-Islam, ‘Might of Islam.’ Qutab Minar was labelled ‘a pillar of victory’ not in its Arabic, but in the Nagari inscriptions inscribed on its lowest storey — and therefore more visible than the other inscriptions. The message to non-Muslims “could scarcely be more explicit”"
Qutb Minar complex

January 1, 1970