Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.2.1

79.2.1

“The clever bird, when it falls into the snare, Has to bear it as well as he can.” All this arose from my not consenting to be branded as his disciple, and I used frequently to allude to it, and in extemporary verse to [say]:— “I am glad I have not a horseman nor a foot-soldier, I am free from the bond of the king, and of the Prince too.” In this year the Tamghā, and the Jazyah, which brought in several krors of dāms were abolished, and edicts to this effect were sent over the whole empire. In the same year Ma‘ṣūm Khān, son of Mu‘īn-ud-dīn Aḥmad Khān Farankhūdī, who held the governorship of Jaunpūr, came to the Court, and was afterwards sent back to Jaunpūr. And Mullā Muḥammad Yazdī the Emperor appointed Qāzī’l-quzāt of Jaunpūr, and the governorship of Dihlī was given to Muḥibb ‘Alī Khān, son of Mīr Khalīfah. Mullā Muḥammad Yazdī, when he reached the province of Jaunpūr, issued a fatwā insisting on the duty of taking the field and rebelling against the Emperor. The consequence was that Muḥammad Ma‘ṣūm Kābulī, and Muḥammad Ma‘ṣūm Khān Farankhūdī, and Mīr Mu‘izz-ul-mulk, and Nayābat Khān, and ‘Arab Bahādur, and others, drew the sword, and in many places (as will be narrated) fought some desperate battles. The Imāms said, that the Emperor has in his dominion made encroachments on the grant-lands belonging to us and to God (He is magnified and glorified!), may the All-merciful have mercy on him!