“He holds aloft the banner of Islam and knocks down the infamous idols. He does away with people of infidelity and hostility”

— Humayun

of Islam
Khwand Amir: Qanun-i Humayuni, M. Hidayat Hosain ed., Calcutta 1940. Cited in Harsh Narain, The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources, p. 66-67

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second Mughal Emperor 1508–1556

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