Somnath temple

Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.

— Somnath temple

I don’t like your trying to restore Somnath. It is Hindu revivalism.

— Somnath temple

Minhaj Siraj writes that "Ulugh Khan Balban's taking of captives, and his capture of the dependents of the great Ranas cannot be recounted". Such was the scale of slave-taking by Muslims in Hindustan that information about it travelled abroad, so that Wassaf writes that in the sack of Somnath in 1299 the Muslim army "took captive a great number of handsome and elegant maidens, amounting to 20,000 and children of both sexes".

— Somnath temple