Muntakhab al-tawarikh 33.1.6

33.1.6

And Mir Khusru has written an account of the fight between Malik Manik (who had obtained the title of Malik Naib) in the Tdrikh-i-Alai a marvel of literature, which ... men of the present confess themselves impotent to approach or imitate, though to tell the truth all the writings of that king of poets, rightly named Khusru, are of due excellence, and to praise one more than those is an imperfection and error for any other. Whenever thought shines forth from his mind It is so subtle as to escape comprehension and defy imitation. On the fifth occasion Iqbal that had occurred, it was as clear as day to the Sultān that his suspicion was groundless. Wait, till the world removes the veil from the face of events, And till that thou hast done this evening, to-morrow is plain to thee. Then he asked for Qāzī Bahā. They replied, He was sent into eternity at that very moment. The Sultān was very repentant and ashamed at hearing this, and vowed never again to drink wine, and ordered it to be proclaimed that the use of wine should be absolutely abandoned throughout the kingdom. Cask upon cask of wine was poured out in the court till it became a flowing river. Everyone who was discovered intoxicated, was hauled off to prison, and punished by imprisonment and confiscation of property.