Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.1.6

79.1.6

And in this year Qazi ‘Ali of Baghdad, who had been appointed in spite of Shaikh ‘Abd-un-nabi to look into the administration of the Madad-i-ma'ash lands, and their encroachment, brought those holders of grant-lands, which brought in 1,000, or 500 down to those which brought in 100, to Court, and cut off most of their lands, and taking the very calf from the cow left them precious little. By this means respect for the families of the great and noble, and the renowned and famous vanished from the cities, and the children of no race were left so helpless as the human beings of Hind: “A generation came after, who neglected prayer, and followed their own lusts.” Schools and mosques were obliterated, and great numbers left their native country: and their children, who remained, in course of time got a reputation for mean conduct. “The schools were as empty of learned men, As the wine-seller’s shop of wine-bibbers in the Fast-month. They turn the teacher’s black-board into a draught board, And the Reader’s Qur’an into a gambling-stake.” And the Emperor after showing much severity to Hakim-ul-mulk on account of his opposition to Shaikh Abu-l-Fazl, whom he called Fazlah at last ordered him to make a pilgrimage to Makkah.