But at the Indus River, Jalaal Ad-Deen was surprised when he found no ships to carry him and his army across that vast river to the other side. They called for ships which were to be brought from a very far place. While they were waiting for the ships to come, the army of Genghis Khan appeared to them.

There was no way but to fight, as being caught between the Indus River behind them and the army of Genghis Khan in front of them. Then, a great battle broke up between both parties, which was terrible, in the full sense of the word, so much that those who watched it said that all the previous battles were something insignificant in comparison with it. This bloody fight lasted for three days consecutively.

Both parties suffered the severity of killing. Maalik Khaan, the Herat governor, was one of those killed among the rows of the Muslims. He had previously fought with Sayf Ad-Deen Bughraaq over the war spoils. But he gained nothing from this World. Nay! He was killed by this world and could not live beyond the very moment of his death. How different is he who dies while supporting the Muslims with all his power, from the one who dies after his fighting has caused an affliction which led to a bitter defeat!

On the fourth day, both armies separated, due to the great number of victims they suffered, and each party started to re-assess its situation, rearrange its papers, bandage its wounds and get ready once again. During that temporary armistice, the ships came to the Indus River. Jalaal Ad-Deen wasted no time in long thinking; on the contrary, he took a quick and decisive resolution to flee. The Muslim leader jumped into the ship along with his private men and those who were close to him, and crossed the Indus River to India, and left the Tatars on the West side of the river.

But, had the Muslim army left the Tatars alone in those territories?
Nay! They were left with the Muslims, and in the territories, cities and villages of the Muslims. They were left with the civilians with no military protection, given that the Tatarian armies did not use to discriminate between the civilians and the military, not to mention the feeling of severe resentment that Genghis Khan had towards the Muslims, due to the great number of casualties the Tatars suffered during the last days. This is why he vented his anger upon these territories of the Muslims, and committed the same atrocities the Tatars used to commit wherever they were, and even more.

The city which suffered most was Ghaznah, near which the Muslims emerged victorious a few months earlier, when their forces were united. Genghis Khan entered the large city of Ghaznah, the capital of the state of Jalaal Ad-Deen, and killed all its men with no exception, captured all its women without exception, and destroyed by fire all houses without exception. In this way, he left it, as stated by Ibn Al-Atheer, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, "and it had fallen into ruin, as if it had not flourished yesterday."

It is worth mentioning that among the city dwellers arrested and killed by Genghis Khan were the children of Jalaal Ad-Deen. Genghis Khan ordered that they should all be slain. Thus, Jalaal Ad-Deen tasted the same cup of bitterness that millions of his people tasted.

It was narrated on the authority of Abu Qilaabah, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, that he said that the Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa salam, said: "Do what you like, for you would be recompensed accordingly." [Al-Bayhaqi, and its chain of narrators is authentic, and narrators reliable, even though it is a Mursal Hadeeth (incompletely transmitted)]

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