Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.34.4

78.34.4

In this year a learned Brahman, Shaikh B’hawan, had come from the Dak’hin and turned Musalman, when His Majesty gave me the order to translate the At'harban. Several of the religious precepts of this book resemble the laws of the Islam. As in translating I found many difficult passages, which Shaikh B’hawan could not interpret either, I reported the same to His Majesty, who ordered Shaikh Faizi, and then Haji Ibrahim, to translate it. The latter, though willing, did not write anything. Among the precepts of the At'harban there is one which says that no man will be saved unless he reads a certain passage. This passage contains many times the letter l, and resembles very much our La illah illa'llah. Besides I found that a Hindu under certain circumstances may eat cow-flesh; and also that Hindus bury their dead, but do not burn them. With such passages the Shaikh used to defeat other Brahmans in argument, and they had in fact led him to embrace the Islam (God be thanked for this !).