Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.44.4

78.44.4

And the expression Imán i fámil he said referred to the Khalíf of the age, explaining it in the sense of ‘holiest,’ and interpreting most things in a manner not wholly correct, and not a few of them quite wrong he uttered much such like nonsense. And he invented a sijdah [prostration] for him, and called it zamīn-bōs [kissing the ground], and looking on the reverence due to a king as an absolute religious command he called the face of the king Ka'bah i Murádát [sanctum of desires], and Qiblah i Háját [goal of necessities]. And in support of these matters he brought forward some apocryphal traditions, and the practice of the disciples of some of the Shaikhs of India. And thus after a time the titles The Only One, The Absolute, The Perfect Man became commonly applied to the just, majestic, and magnanimous Emperor. Similarly other of the great Shaikhs, such as Shaikh Ya'qūb of Kashmīr, who is a well known writer, and at present the greatest authority in religious matters, mentioned some of the opinions expressed by that chief of Qázīs, Hamadānī, such as the following: that Muhammad the Prophet of God (may God bless him and his race and grant him peace!) was a personification of the title Alhádī [the guide], and Iblīs [the devil] is a personification of the title Almuzill [the fier], and that both names, thus personified, have appeared in the world, and that both personifications therefore are necessary.