Riyaz al-salatin 53.1

53.1

When Sultan Shamsu-d-din died, Rajah Kans a Hindu Zamindar, subjugating the whole kingdom of Bengal, seated himself on the throne, and commenced oppressions, and seeking to destroy the Musalmans, slew many of their learned and holy men. His aim was to extirpate Islam from his dominions. It is said one day Shaikh Badrul Islam, father of Shaikh Muinu-d-din 'Abbas, sat down before that wretch, without saluting him. Thereupon he said : " Shaikh, why did you not salute me ? " The Shaikh said : " It is not becoming for the learned to salute infidels, especially a cruel and blood-shedding infidel, like thee, who has shed the blood of Musalmans." On hearing this, that unholy infidel kept silent, and, calling like the serpent, aimed at killing him. One day he sat in a house which had a low and narrow entrance, and summoned in the Shaikh. When the Shaikh arrived, he guessed the Rajah's object, so he first put out his legs inside, and afterwards not bending the head, entered. That infidel flew into rage, and ordered that the Shaikh should be placed in a line with his brothers. Immediately, the Shaikh was killed, and the rest of the learned that very day were placed on a boat and drowned in the river. The Saint Nūr Qutbu-l-'Ālam becoming impatient by reason of the oppressions of that infidel and his slaughter of the Musalmans, wrote as follows to Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi who ruled at that time up to the limits of Behar: "The ruler of this country, named Kans, is an infidel.