The Institutes of Akbar 135.4.3

135.4.3

During those days also the public prayers and the azán, which was chanted five times a day for assembly to prayer in the state-hall, were abolished. Names like Ahmad, Muhammad, Muçtafá, &c., became offensive to His Majesty, who thereby wished to please the infidels outside, and the princesses inside, the Harem, till, after some time, those courtiers who had such names, changed them; and names as Yár Muhammad, Muhammad Khán, were altered to Rahmat. To call such ill-starred wretches by the name of our blessed prophet would indeed be wrong, and there was not only room for improvement by altering their names, but it was even necessary to change them, according to the proverb, ‘It is wrong to put fine jewels on the neck of a pig.’ And this destructive fire broke all out in Ágrah, burnt down great and small families, and did not even spare their family tombs—May God forsake these wretches!” [p. 315.] “In Rabí’ussání 990, Mír Fathullah came from the Dak’hin (vide above p. 33). * * * As he had been an immediate pupil of Mír Ghiásuddín Mansúr of Shíráz, who had not been overstrict in religious matters, His Majesty thought that Fathullah would only be too glad to enter into his religious scheme. But Fathullah was such a stanch Shí’ah, and at the same time such a worldly office-hunter, and such a worshipper of mammon and of the nobility, that he would not give up a jot of the tittles of bigoted Shí’ism.