Muntakhab al-tawarikh 31.9

31.9

This was the plan which Sultan Mu'izzu-d-Din carried into effect. He was very anxious to act upon the advice of his father and remove Nizamu-l-Mulk ‘Alaqa, so he in the first instance appointed him to Multan, but Nizamu-l-Mulk saw through this device, and kept making excuses for delaying his departure, whereupon certain of the king’s retainers at a hint from him, poisoned Nizamu-l-Mulk’s cup, and despatched him to the land of non-existence. It so happened that this occurrence became a cause of injury to the State. At this same time the Sultan was attacked by paralysis from his excesses in wine and venery, in addition to which other deadly ills and chronic diseases obtained the mastery over his body, and his constitution not being able to stand against them, his powers succumbed. The greater number of the Amirs and Maliks who were well disposed to him raised his son Khan was; they then ordered a man whose father had been put to death by Sultan Mu‘izzu-d-Din to go to the palace of Kilughari, which he did, and finding the Sultan at his last gasp, he kicked him several times on the head, and then threw him into the river Jumna, and the Empire passed from the dynasty of Ghor, and kingship from the family of Ghiyasu-d-Din. This occurrence took place in the middle of the month of Muharram in the year 689 H. (1209 A.D.). The duration of the sovereignty of Sultan Mu‘izzu-d-Din was three years and some months.