Muntakhab al-tawarikh 41.1

41.1

Who is the same as Ghazi Malik, ascended the throne in the year 720 A.H. (1321 A.D.) by the consent of the Amirs and nobles and was styled by this title. In the space of one week he ordered and regulated the important affairs of the state with a perfection unattainable to others in the course of years. He appointed his own relations to various posts and showing many favours to the Amirs of ‘Alau-d-Din and to some of the Maliks of Qutbu-d-Din gave them districts. Then he directed his ambition to the rebuilding of the fortress of Tughlaqabad and all the lofty edifices, and set about it (without delay) and Badr Sha'ir Shashi invented as a chronogram for the date of building meantime ‘Ubaid Zakani the poet, a turbulent fellow, the notorious opponent of Mir Khusru (on whom be mercy) who rascal that he was wrote the following famous verses: Khusru’s own verse was very raw, so by mistake he took Nizami’s saucepan by mistake, his flummery to cook.