“To the Hindus who considered him (Salar Masud Ghazi, who offered only the sword or the Quran to lakhs of Hindus), a saint of miraculous powers, the number of their brethren he killed or Islamised was then, as it is now, meaningless.”

Athar Abbas Ali Rizvi, History of Sufism in India, Time for stock tacking http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tfst/chii46.htm
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