The Brahmin is asleep at the gate of the temple While the Muslim bemoans his destiny under the Mirhab. And yet, be neither weary of the East nor turn away from the West.
Nature beckons thee to transform every night into dawn.
He used the Khyber Pass as his springboard of the march from Persia and Afghan and down the Indus where his fleet waited to sail to the Euphrates. Originally, in its western form, India's name derived from the Persians and the Greeks - from the fertile breadbasket watered by the great river of civilization, the Indus. Islam burst upon the world in the 7th century. In under a century it roared across the desert and the Middle East, and westwards along the coasts of Eastern and northern Africa and into Spain and France. About the year AD 711 it surged across the Arabian Sea from Basra and the Persian Gulf and ascended the Indus.