Led twelve descents on India. The first was in A.H. 390* (A.D. 999-1000), and the last in A.H. 418 (A.D. 1027). Fanatical bigots representing India as a country of unbelievers at war with Islám incited his unsuspecting nature to the wreck of honour and the shedding of blood and the plunder of the virtuous.