Ziauddin Barani pleads for an all-out struggle against Hinduism:
“The Muslim kings will not be able to establish the honour (sic) of theism (TOWHID) and the supremacy of Islam unless he strives with all his courage to overthrow infidelity and to slaughter its leaders…. He should make firm resolve to overpower, capture, enslave, and degrade the infidels. All the strength and power of the kind and of the holy warriors of Islam should be concentrated in holy campaigns and holy wars; and they should risk themselves in the enterprise so that the true Faith may uproot the false creeds, and then it will look as if these false creeds had never existed because they have been deprived of all their glamour. On the other hand, the Muslim king, in spite of power and position which God had given him, is merely content to take the poll-tax (Jiziya) and tribute (kharaj) from the Hindus and preserve both infidels and infidelity and refuses to risk his power in attempting to overthrow…. (Fatawa I Jahandari, trans, p, 46).
Reference:
Barani, Z. Fatawa-i-Jahandari. https://polsci.institute/indian-political-thought-l/major-works-zia-ul-barani/
Mohamad Habib & Dr. Mrs Afsar Umar Salim Kahn The Political Theory of The Delhi Sultanate Including a translation of Ziauddin Barani’s Fatawa i-Jahandari, Circo 1358-9 A.D. Kitab Mahal, Delhi.
