Riyaz al-salatin 50.3

50.3

Now get up, and come to the tribunal The widow's son whom you wounded with an arrow, is the complainant." The king immediately got up, and concealing a small sword under his arm-pit, set out. When he appeared before the Qazi, the latter not at all paying attention to the king, said : "Consolate the heart of this old woman." The king consolated her in a way that he could, and said : "Qazi, now the old woman is satisfied." Then the Qazi turning to the old woman enquired, "Have you received redress and been satisfied?" The woman said: "Yes, I am satisfied." Then the Qazi got up in great delight, and showing respect to the king, seated him on the masnad. The king drawing out the sword from his arm-pit said : "Qazi, in obedience to the injunctions of the sacred Law, I have appeared at your tribunal. If to-day I found you deviating by one hair-breadth from adherence to the injunctions of the Law, with this very sword I should have severed your head. God be thanked, that everything has been all-right." The Qazi also drew his whip from underneath the masnad, and said : "Sire, if to-day I found thee in the least transgressing the injunctions of the sacred Law, by God, with this very whip I should have turned your back red and black" and added—"A calamity had come but has ended well." The king, being pleased, bestowing gifts and presents on the Qazi, returned. The king from the beginning had great faith in the Saint Nur Qutubul 'Alam, and was his contemporary and fellow-student;