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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 39: Verse. Who was it had acquired the wealth, Who was it squandered it?

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 39

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still the hearts of great and small were not so attuned to this disloyalty and irreligion of his that he could bring them into harmony with his own.
And in the year 721 A.H. (1321 A.D.) Khusru Khan put out the eyes of certain of the offspring of ‘Alau-d-Din, for instance Abubakr Khan, and ‘Ali Khan, and Bahadur Khan, and gained over certain of the Amirs, such as ‘Ainu-l-Mulk and some others. The Hindus gained ground and increased their influence in most of the provinces, and a torrent of destruction swept suddenly upon the followers of Islam and destroyed their wealth and property, giving their families to the wind of extinction.
The affair of the Ghazz which had happened in the time of Sultan Sinjar was forgotten, and the state of mankind was expressed by this verse: