excerpts from Book: Pakistan or Partition of India , Chapter 4:Breakup of Unity
"In reply to a question put by Sultan Ala-ud-Din Khilji wanting to know the legal position of the Hindus under Muslim law.
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" They are called payers of tribute, and when the revenue officer demands silver from them they should without question, and with all humility and respect, tender gold.
If the officer throws dirt in their mouths, they must without reluctance open their mouths wide to receive it.....
The due subordination of the Dhimmi is exhibited in this humble payment, and by this throwing of dirt into their mouths.
The glorification of Islam is a duty, and contempt for religion is vain. God holds them in contempt, for he says, ' Keep them in subjection '.
To keep the Hindus in abasement is especially a religious duty, because they are the most inveterate enemies of the Prophet, and because the Prophet has commanded us to slay them, plunder them, and make them captive, saying, ' Convert them to Islam or kill them, and make them slaves, and spoil their wealth and property '.
No doctor but the great doctor (Hani-fah), to whose school we belong, has assented to the imposition of jizya on Hindus ; doctors of other schools allow no other alternative but ' Death or Islam '. " 21[f.21]
