It's alright you can call yourself Hindu, We won't mind.
‘Imād ad-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim ath-Thaqafī (
Arabic: عماد الدين محمد بن القاسم الثقفي; c. 31 December 695 – 18 July 715) was an
Umayyad general who conquered the
Sindh and
Multan regions along the
Indus River (now a part of
Pakistan) for the
Umayyad Caliphate. He was born and raised in the city of
Ta'if (in modern-day
Saudi Arabia). Qasim's conquest of Sindh and southern-most parts of Multan enabled further
Muslim conquests on the Indian subcontinent.
A member of the
Thaqif tribe of the
Ta'if region, Muhammad bin Qasim's father was
Qasim bin Yusuf who died when Muhammad bin Qasim was young, leaving his mother in charge of his education and care.
Umayyad governor
Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Al-Thaqafi, Muhammad bin Qasim's paternal uncle, was instrumental in teaching Muhammad bin Qasim about warfare and governance. Muhammad bin Qasim married his cousin Zubaidah, Al-Hajjaj's daughter, shortly before going to
Sindh.
Due to his close relationship with Al-Hajjaj, Bin Qasim was executed after the accession of Caliph
Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik.
Umayyad interest in Sindh
According to Berzin,
Umayyad interest in the region occurred because of attacks from
Sindh Raja Dahir on ships of
Muslims and their imprisonment of Muslim men and women.[1] They had earlier unsuccessfully sought to gain control of the route, via the
Khyber Pass, from the
Kabul Shahi of
Gandhara.[1] But by taking Sindh, Gandhara's southern neighbour, they were able to open a second front against Gandhara; a feat they had, on one occasion, attempted before.[1]
According to Wink,
Umayyad interest in the region was galvanized by the operation of the
Meds (a tribe of Scythians living in Sindh) and others.[2] Meds had
pirated upon
Sassanid shipping in the past, from the mouth of the
Tigris to the
Sri Lankan coast, in their
bawarij and now were able to prey on
Arab shipping from their bases at
Kutch,
Debal and
Kathiawar.[2] At the time,
Sindh was the wild
frontier region of al-Hind, inhabited mostly by semi-nomadic tribes whose activities disturbed much of the Western
Indian Ocean.[2] Muslim sources insist that it was these persistent activities along increasingly important Indian trade routes by Debal pirates and others which forced the
Arabs to subjugate the area, in order to control the seaports and maritime routes of which
Sindh was the nucleus, as well as, the overland passage.[3] During
Hajjaj's governorship, the Meds of
Debal in one of their raids had kidnapped Muslim women travelling from
Sri Lanka to
Arabia, thus providing a
casus belli to the rising power of the Umayyad Caliphate that enabled them to gain a foothold in the
Makran,
Balochistan and
Sindh regions.
Also cited as a reason for this campaign was the policy of providing refuge to Sassanids fleeing the
Arab advance and to
Arab rebels from the
Umayyad consolidation of their rule.
These Arabs were imprisoned later on by the Governor Deebal Partaab Raye. A letter written by an Arab girl who escaped from the prison of Partab Raye asked Hajjaj Bin Yusuf for help. When Hajjaj asked Dahir for the release of prisoners and compensation, the latter refused on the ground that he had no control over those. Al-Hajjaj sent Muhammad Bin Qasim for action against the Sindh in 711.
The
mawali; new non-Arab converts; who were usually allied with Al-Hajjaj's political opponents and thus were frequently forced to participate in battles on the frontier of the Umayyad Caliphate — such as
Kabul,
Sindh and
Transoxania.[5] An actual push into the region had been out of favor as an Arab policy since the time of the
Rashidun Caliph Umar bin Khattab, who upon receipt of reports of it being an inhospitable and poor land, had stopped further expeditionary ventures into the region.
see it with open eyes,letter written by arab girl,see above.
Very aptly put of what assume is the common Planet Pakistan narrative. But unfortunately, when someone claims that there ancestors ruled over Hindus for 1000 yrs, isn't it an admission of about 5000 years of subservience to the same shamed Hindus by your own ancestors? Logic is a bitch, isn't it?
And which Hindu Rajas, did Bin qassim defeat, were these kingdoms located in present day India or in Present day Pakistan?
Pakistani are of Arab and Afghan origin, Study of genetics is where the answers lie, irrespective of fantasies of ancestral copulation that one may have to justify their current level of ignorance of the world view. Alas science just like it cousin - logic, too is a bitch.
Yes absolutely "Hindus" which in aptly in this thread tries to refer to inhabitants of India, indeed should be shameful of their history, for lack of ambition, lack of scientific inquiry, lack of technological breakthroughs, lack of empowerment of political will, tyranny, and tolerating loot and genocide by invaders in the subcontinent. Indeed Hindus should be shamed for all of it.
i think his name was raja dahir.read the book first.it's in history.you can't deny history.you can live in your fantasies and dream to become world power but reality is,you can't even make a tank which can fire straight.i am not talking about 5000 years.i am referring to books and how civilization inside your so called india has started.do you know about sri lanka or you never read about this country? i doubt it since most hindus can only learn things which only taught in their dirty indian literature.look at the world around you and get out of this nightmare.muslim trade ships used to travel from sri lanka to arabia.this is where your raja dahir attacked people and make them prisoners.we invaded,defeated your raja with pride.i don't know why you don't find it in books,see it on google if you know how to use it.we started settlements inside sindh after defeating you.this isn't a typical pakistani comment,it's a history.read it.