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It is said that the Makhdumzada-i-‘Abbasi of Baghdad, and Shaikh Nasiru-d-Din Chiragh-i-Dihli may God sanctify their sacred resting places were the cause of the allegiance thus sworn to Sultan Firoz, and it is currently reported that \[Makhdum Shaikh Nasiru-d-Din Chiragh-i-Dihli may God sanctify his resting place\] had secretly made Malik Firoz King during the absence of Sultan Muhammad. Some of the Muftis informed the Sultan of this, and his orders were that those two, master and disciple were to be taken in confinement from Dihli and brought to the camp. This was carried out, and Malik Firoz in some way or other gained over the guards, and made his way, just as he was, to the neighbourhood of Hansi to Shaikh Badru-d-Din who was one of the descendants of Shaikh Jamalu-d-Din of Hansi may God sanctify their resting-places. That holy man exclaimed “Great God! a man has been made prisoner and taken off to be Sultan, and he wots not of it”! ### [44.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.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. ### [44.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.44.1.3) However this may be, the Sultan Firoz at the outset of his reign issued this order that the Moghuls who had obtained influence over the soldiery should be brought apart from the camp, and inasmuch as their mutinous conduct had passed all bounds, the Sultan himself saw to their safe custody, and punishing those Moghuls effectually put a stop to their interfering with the discipline of the army. Verse Far better than giving a Moghul a hint to plunder Is it that you should rejoice him with a sight of Paradise. ### [44.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.44.1.4) Then he brought his army in safety into security, and proceeding by way of Siwistan made for Dihli by continuous marches, and Ahmad Aiyaz, styled Khwaja-i-Jahan, who in the absence of the Sultan had urged the claims of an obscure child to the throne, and had given him the title of Ghiyasu-d-Din Mahmud Shah, appointing himself Vakil, after considerable argument, and much correspondence, by reason of his helplessness and dejection, by the mediation of Ashrafu-l-Mulk and the other nobles and grandees, came with bared head, casting his turban on his neck, to the neighbourhood of Hansi, and had an interview with the Sultan, who washed out the writing of his fault with the water of forgiveness, and made him over to the Kotwal of Hansi, and as for the party who had been his companions in this faction and opposition, he dispersed them all in different directions. At Sarsuti tidings arrived of the birth of Shahzada Fath Khan, whose son eventually became Tughlaq Shah, and the news of the death of Taghi also reached him there from Gujrat; and on the second of Rajab in the aforesaid year, he graced the throne of Dihli by his accession and made a fresh distribution of appointments. And in the year 753 H. (1352 A.D.) he went to the Sirmur hills for the purpose of relaxation and sport, and returned thence, and in the month of Rajab of this year Shahzada Muhammad Khan, who eventually obtained the title of Nasiru-d-Din Muhammad Shah, was born. ### [44.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.44.1.5) And in the year 754 H. (1353 A.D.) he returned from Kalanor whither he had gone on a hunting expedition, and built a lofty building on the banks of the river Sarsuti and \[gave it to Shaikh Sadru-d-Din Multani, may God sanctify his resting place, the Shaikhu-l-Islam\] and Malik Qubul Naib Vazir he made Khan-i-Jahan, and at the close of this year he went to Lakhnauti with the intention of putting down the rebellion of Haji Ilyas who had assumed the title of Shamsu-d-Din. He accordingly took refuge in the fort of Ikdala, which is the strongest of the forts of Bangala, and after a desultory defence fought for a very short time, and threw his elephants and his material of war, with his servants and retainers to the winds, and all of them fell into the hands of the Sultan who, having made peace with him because of the rainy season, retraced his steps. And in the year 755 H. (1354 A.D.) having crossed by the ford of Manikpur he arrived at Dihli and built Firuzabad on the banks of the Jauna. And in the year 756 H. (1355 A.D.) he went to Dipalpur and bringing a canal from the river Satlaj led it as far as the Jahjar which is forty-eight kroh from there. ### [44.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.44.1.6) In the year 757 A.H. (1356 A.D.) he conducted a stream from the river Jamna from the vicinity of Mandui (Mandili) and Sarur, and having led seven other canals into it took it to Hansi and thence to Ras where he built a fortress which he called Hisar Firoza, and dug a spacious reservoir beneath the palace which was in that fortress, and filled it with water from the canal; he also led another stream from the canal of the Ghaghar underneath the fortress of Sarsuti, and from thence to Birni Khera, and in the space between them he built a fortress and named it Firozabad. At the end of this year on the occasion of the ‘Idu-z Zaha a robe of honour arrived for the Sultan from the Khalifah Al-Hakim bi-amr-illahi Abul Fath Abu Bakr ibn Abil Rabi‘ Suleiman from the Darul Khilafat of Egypt, with a patent conferring upon him the whole of Hindustan; and in this same year messengers from Haji Ilyas the ruler of Lakhnauti, having arrived bearing splendid presents and offerings, were distinguished with countless favours and kindnesses, after which they returned, and it was ordered that in return for these presents (handsome) elephants should be sent. The whole of Hindustan was now in possession of Sultan Firoz with the exception of Lakhnauti, which was held by Haji Ilyas, who had come to terms with the Sultan, and with the exception also of the Deccan, which, after the death of Sultan Muhammad, had come into the possession of Hasan Kangu. ### [44.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.44.1.7) And in the year 759 H. (1358 A.D.) having gone to Samana, he appointed Malik Qabul Sarbarahdar to proceed against the Mughuls who had arrived on the frontier of Dipalpur. The Mughuls upon hearing particulars of the Sultan’s army turned back and went to their own country, and the Sultan returned to Dihli; and in this year the Sultan despatched some Arabian horses and foreign fruits with all kinds of choice presents by the hands of the messengers of Sultan Shamsu-d-Din of Lakhnauti who had arrived at his Court, bearing many presents, and at Bihar they heard that the Sultan Shamsu-d-Din had died, and Sultan Sikandar his son had ascended the throne in the room of his father, so they sent the horses in accordance with orders to the Court at Bihar and conducted the messengers back to Karra. ### [44.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.44.1.8) And in the year 760 H., the Sultan having formed the design of attacking Lakhnauti with a vast army, left Khan-i-Jahan in Dehli, and after deputing Tatar Khan, that is to say Malik Tatar, to proceed from Samana to Multan, set out and passed the rainy season in Zafarabad, and at this place, A'zam Malik Shaikh-zada-i-Bustami who had become intimate during his absence with Malik Ahmad Aiyaz, and by the orders of the Sultan had been banished, brought from the Darul Khilafat of Egypt a robe of honour for the Sultan and received the title of A'zam Khan. Saiyyid was sent with the messengers of Lakhnauti to the Sultan Sikandar at Lakhnauti, and Sikandar despatched five fine elephants with other costly presents and offerings to the Court. The Sultan when the rains were over leaving Zafarabad shaped his course for Lakhnauti, and while on the way set apart the requirements of kingship, and elephants and a store of rubies which at that time were held in great estimation, for the Shahzada Fath Khan, they also struck coins in his name. When they arrived at the confines of Panduah, Sultan Sikandar shut himself up in the castle of Ikdala whither his father had been in the habit of going for refuge, and after the Sultan had laid siege to that fortress Sultan Sikandar asked for quarter, and sent thirty-seven elephants with other costly presents as his humble service. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.44.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.44.1) · Pramāṇa