Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.35.1

78.35.1

I said : “ In the time of the Prophet (God bless him, and give him peace !) the reciting of the Fatihah was not customary ; and some of the traditions have pronounced it to be of questionable authority.” He said : “ Do you mean to say then that those who read it are not in the region of knowledge, nor wise men?” I replied : “We have to do with the Written Law, not with [possible] forgeries.” The Emperor after this commanded that I should recite it. I complied, although I showed him the tradition which pronounced it as questionable. At this time [the Emperor] revived an old Chaghatai custom. For some days, in order to exhibit it to Mirza Sulaiman, they spread royal tables in the Audience-hall. And the officers of high grade gathered the soldiers together, and took to themselves the trouble of arranging the customary food. But when the Mirza departed, all these [revived customs] departed too. Khan Jahan, commandant of the Panjab, was ordered to take with him 5,000 warlike mounted archers, and putting himself at the service of the Mirza to go to Badakhshan, and deliver the country from Mirza Shah-Rukh and hand it over to Mirza Sulaiman. But, as a matter of fact the aspect of affairs took a somewhat different complexion.