The Institutes of Akbar 135.5.3

135.5.3

In this year also, in the state hall of Fathpur, the ten cubit square of the Hanafis and the Quilatain of the Shafi’is and Shi’ahs were compared. The fluid quantum of the Hanafis was greater than that of the others. His Majesty once ordered that the Sunnis should stand separately from the Shi’ahs, when the Hindustanis, without exception, went to the Sunni side, and the Persians to the Shi’ah side.” [p. 336.] “During this year [992], Mulla Ilahdad of Amrohah and Mulla Sheri attended at Court, in order to flatter the emperor; for they had been appointed to Cadrships in the Duab of the Panjab. Mulla Sheri presented to His Majesty a poem made by him, entitled Hazar Shu’a’, or ‘The Thousand Rays,’ which contained 1,000 qita’hs in praise of the Sun. His Majesty was much pleased.” At the feast of the emperor’s accession in 992, numerous conversions took place. [Bad. II. p. 338.]