Muntakhab al-tawarikh 32.1.7

32.1.7

In order to verify the claims to Saiyyidship, and to test the miraculous powers of the Sidi, he had a huge fire like that prepared by Nimrud (for Abraham) lighted, and wished to have Sidi Maula thrown into that temple of fire. The Ulama of the time, in consideration of the irreligious nature of that order, issued a mandamus which they communicated to the Sultan saying, “The essential nature of fire is to consume things, and no one can issue forth from it in safety unhurt.” The Sultan accordingly desisted and gave up that ordeal, but he punished the larger number of those Maliks in that same assembly, and some he expatriated ; and inasmuch as the answers of Sidi Maula were all in accordance with reason, and no fault could be found with him either on the score of religious law or logic, the Sultan was reduced to extremity, and suddenly turning to Abu Bakr Tusi Haidari who was the chief of the sect of Qalandars, and utterly unscrupulous, he said “Why do not you darveshes avenge me of this tyrant,” thereupon a Qalandar leapt up from their midst, and struck the unfortunate Sidi several blows with a razor and wounded him, then they shaved off the holy man’s whiskers with a knife even to the chin, and stabbed him in the side with packmakers’ needles, and then, by command of Arkali Khan the second son of the Sultan, an elephant driver drove a rogue elephant over the head of the poor oppressed Sidi, and martyred him with countless tortures: may God be gracious to him.