The den of the robbers was thus converted into a guard-house, and Musulmans and guardians of the way took the place of highway robbers.
— Ziauddin Barani
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Kingship (or government) is a combination of terror, strictness and kindness, and it is only maintained by (resorting to) these contradictory principles.
“The low-born, who have been enrolled for practising the baser arts and the meaner professions, are capable only of vices…”
‘Kingship is the army and the army is the kingship,’ wrote Barani, implying the central importance of a powerful army in the plunderous Muslim rule and conquest.
[Slaves, for instance, made good soldiers but] “they are of one group and one mind and there can be no permanent security against their revolt.”
Fatawa-i-Jahandari, pp.25-26. quoted from Lal, K. S (1992)
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