Muntakhab al-tawarikh 25: " Allahu Akbar."

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 210.] [In these days (A.H. 983, A.D. 1575-6) His Majesty asked how it would be if he ordered the words Allahu Akbar to be engraven on his Imperial seal and stamped upon his coins. Several people said it would be very good. But Haji Ibrahim objected. He said the phrase had an ambiguous meaning, and that it would be better to substitute the verse of the Kuran, Lazikru Allahi Akbaru ("To think of God is the greatest thing"), because it was free from ambiguity. His Majesty was not pleased with this, and said it was self-evident that no creature, in the depths of his impotence, could advance any claim to Divinity. He had only looked upon the word as being apposite, and there could be no sense in straining it to such an extent.]