Muntakhab al-tawarikh 38: Declaration of Adherence to the Divine Faith

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 304.] [Ten or twelve years after the commencement of these changes, matters came to such a pitch that wretches like Mirza Jani, chief of Tatta, and other apostates, wrote their declarations to the following effect : "I, so and so, son of so and so, have willingly and cheerfully renounced the false and pretended religion of Islam, which I have received from my ancestors, and have joined the Divine Faith (Din-i Ilahi) of Shah Akbar, and have assented to its fourfold rule of sincerity — (the readiness to) sacrifice wealth and life, honour and religion." These writings — there could be no more effectual letters of damnation — were handed in to the Mujtahid of the new creed (Abu-l Fazl).
[p. 325.] His Majesty gave his religious system the name of Tauhid-i Ilahi, Divine Monotheism.]