Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.9.2

61.9.2

When Islam Shah read the sealed letter of Shaikh Budh the physician, he called Shaikh ‘Ala’i to come close to him and said to him in a low tone of voice, “Do you only say to me in my own ear that you are penitent for having made this claim, you shall then be accorded complete liberty to go where you will and do as you please.” Shaikh ‘Ala’i however refused to give ear to his proposals and paid no heed to him; Islam Shah in despair said to Mulla ‘Abdu-llah, I leave him in your hands. This he said and gave orders for him to receive a certain number of stripes in his own presence. Shaikh ‘Ala’i Himself had a wound in his neck, the result of an operation for the pestilence which raged in that year throughout the of Hindūstān, and had destroyed the greater part of the people. This wound had to be kept open by a tent, in addition to which he was suffering from the fatigue of his journey, years. It was in fact an exact counterpart of the affair of Sultan Jalalu-d-Din Firoz Shah Khilji after the execution of Sidi Maula, save that the decay of the kingdom of Salim Shah was even more rapid than that of Jalalu-d-Din. People considered Mulla ‘Abdullah, who was always vexatious to the holy men, to be the cause of all this heart-burning, and this was really the case. This event took place in the year 957 H. (1550 A.D.) the writer of these pages was at that time ten years of age, and invented the two following chronograms : The first is the second Saqahum rabbuhum sharaban.