Riyaz al-salatin 65.4

65.4

In this way, a city was pillaged : You might say, it was swept by the broom of plunder. Syed Sharif Maki by this easy contrivance, seized the umbrella of sovereignty, and introduced the Khutba and the coin in his own name. Historians write that his name was Syed Sharif Maki, and that when he ascended the throne, he styled himself 'Alau-d-din. But I note that throughout the kingdom of Bengal and in the neighbourhood of Gaur, his name as Husain Shah is on the lips of the elite and the mass. Since I did not find the name of Husain Shah in history, I was in doubt. After much research, by deciphering wordings of inscriptions which exist up to this day, and are engraved on the ruins of the City of Gaur, on the stone of the large gate-way of the Qadam Rasul building, and on the Golden Mosque, and also on some other shrines, which are amongst the edifices erected by Sultan Husain Shah and his sons Nasrat Shah and Mahmud Shah, it appears that Syed 'Alau-d-din Abul Muzaffar Husain Shah is the son of Syed Ashrafal-Husaini. In regard to the months and years of Syed Sharif Maki's period, all these inscriptions tally, and thus all doubts are set at rest. It appears that apparently his venerable father — Syed Ashrafal Husaini — was Sharif of Makka; hence the son also was known as Sharif-i-Maki; or else, his name was Syed Husain. In a pamphlet, I have noticed that Husain Shah and his brother Yusuf, together with their father, Sayyid Ashrafal Husaini, were residents of the town of Tarmuz.