Muntakhab al-tawarikh 44.1.2

44.1.2

When they arrived at the camp of the Sultan in the vicinity of Thatha and the tidings of the arrival of these two holy men reached him he gave orders that they were to be put to death the instant of their arrival, and with that he lapsed into a state of intoxication. A son of his had gone on a hunting expedition, accordingly when the guards saw this state of affairs, they liberated the holy Shaikh and the Sultan; then Sultan Firoz by the consent of the nobles raised the banner of sovereignty and got the Sultan’s son out of the way by some crafty scheme, and after he had returned to Dihli he made the pargana of Chaurasi in the district of Hansi a present to the monastery and rest-house of Shaikh Badru-d Din, whom I have mentioned. This is what I have heard — God alone knows the real truth. They also say that Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughlaq Shah took the reverend Shaikh under his protection, till one day the Shaikh, may God sanctify his resting-place, tied a knot upon one of the Sultan’s robes and said “Nasiru-d-Din fastens and God opens” and that very day the Sultan died. Verse The only kingdom which sorrows not for the affliction of its decline, Hear my words freely spoken, is the kingdom of the darvesh.