The Institutes of Akbar 191.8

191.8

The next Çadr was Sultán Khwajah. Matters relating to Sayúrgháls now took a very different course. Akbar had rejected the Islam, and the new Çadr, who had just returned from Makkah, become a member of the Divine Faith. The systematic persecution of the learned and the lawyers had commenced, and His Majesty enquired personally into all grants (vide p. 189, last para.). The lands were now steadily withdrawn, and according to Badáoní, who had managed to get 1000 big’hahs, at first to the great disgust of ’Abdunnabí, many a Muhammadan family was impoverished or utterly ruined. In 993, Fathullah of Shíráz (vide p. 33) was appointed Çadr. As the Sayúrghál duties, and with them the dignity of the Çadr, had dwindled down to nothing, Fathullah, though Çadr, could be spared for missions to the Dak’hin, Bad. p. 343.