Muntakhab al-tawarikh 23.4

23.4

And in the year 639 H. the troops of the Mughal Changez Khan came and invested the city of Lahore, and Malik the Governor of Lahore fled one day at midnight and came to Dehli, where the Sultan pledged the Amirs anew to fealty, and having summoned a conference sent Nizamu-l-Mulk, Wazir, whose heart was not friendly to the Sultan, to oppose the Mughal force in the Panjab. He, with craft and hypocrisy wrote on letter to the Sultan and made many complaints of the Amirs who were with him, and begged the Sultan to come. The Sultan, however, not thinking it advisable to go in person, wrote a despatch to him in apparent sincerity, saying, "these recalcitrant Amirs shall meet their punishment in due time, you should treat them with civility till then." He showed that despatch in original to the Amirs and brought them over to his side, and the Sultan Mu'izzu-d-Din Bahram Shah sent Hazrat Shaikhu-l-Islam Khwaja-i-Jahangiyan Qutbu-d-Din Bakhtyar Ushi, may God sanctify him, to the Amirs to put matters straight and to quell the disturbance, but without success, the Shaikhu-l-Islam returned and came to Dehli, and just at this juncture Nizamu-l-Mulk and the Amirs also arrived and besieged the Sultan in Dehli, and taking him captive imprisoned him, and after a few days despatched him to the next world and set up another king in his place. ‘The times of old have had this habit To take from this man and give to that.’ The duration of his reign was two years and one month and fifteen days.