Muntakhab al-tawarikh 71.12

71.12

the ‘Ulama of ‘Iraq, however ridicule his pretensions to descent from Khwandi stock, and have prepared a document bearing upon this question, to which both his opponents and supporters subscribed their signatures, as is mentioned in the Kamilu-t-tawarikh of Ibn Asir Jazari, and also in the Lubbu-t-tawarikh of Qazi Yahya Qazwini, and other works. He claimed to be intimately connected with Shah Tahmasp, but eventually he was led, by the abuse which was heaped upon him in connection with the aforesaid claim to relationship, and the excessive annoyance caused him by Mir Jamalu-d-Din Sadr Astarabadi, to proceed to the Dakkan, which is famed as the refuge for the oppressed, where he met with a favourable reception from Nizam Shah, the ruler of that country, and was rewarded with considerable advancement, and attaining the highest dignities reached the rank of Jumlatu-l-Mulk (Chief finance-minister of the State). The Shi'ah tenets spread widely, in fact we may say they were really inaugurated in those regions through the instrumentality of Shah Tahir. Nizam Shah who was afflicted with an incurable malady of long standing, was cured by the virtue of a charm pronounced over him by Shah Ja‘far, and that occurrence, which in reality was of the nature of Istidraj, he attributed to the miraculous powers (karamat) of Shah Ja‘far, and acting upon his instigation abandoned the religions tenets of Sunnat and Jama'at, which he held as one of the Mahdawiyah, and became a fanatical heretic.