However, Ferishta's monumental History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, translated into English by John Briggs in 1829, tells a different story. ... Mahmood is quoted as replying: "The religion of the faithful inculcates the following tenet: 'That in proportion as the tenets of the Prophet (PBUH) are diffused, and his followers exert themselves in the subversion of idolatry, so shall be their reward in heaven; that, therefore, it behoved him, with the assistance of God, to root out the worship of idols from the face of all India. ...

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