Muntakhab al-tawarikh 32.2.5

32.2.5

Suddenly news arrived that ‘Alau-d-Din having gone up against the rebel Deo Gir, had conquered the whole of his country as far as the confines of the country of the Deccan, and had taken as spoil much treasure, and elephants and property, several thousands of horses, together with valuables; silk and cloth goods, and jewels, beyond the limits of computation, and that he was making for Karra. This was a source of great gratification to the Sultan, but the wise men of those times knew very well, both from analogy and inference, that ‘Alau-d-Din had gone to that country without permission from the Sultan, and had suffered much annoyance at the hands of Malika-i-Jahan who was the consort of the Sultan, and also from his own wife, and had accordingly faced the world, always nursing in his breast sinister intentions. Now that he was in a position perfectly to put his rebellious ideas into execution, and had not the access to the Court, it was strange that the Sultan seemed to suffer no apprehension as regarded him; but no one dared represent these views to the Sultan, who was wholly and entirely ignorant of the annoyance which ‘Alau-d-Din had suffered at the hands of the Queen-mother and his own wife, and if by chance they ventured to speak of the possibility of the revolt and treachery of ‘Alau-d-Din, the Sultan attributed it to jealousy, and would never allow the idea of his contumacy or rebellion to enter his head.