Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 233.149

233.149

حسن بصری ملکالتجار، سرلشکر دولت آباد، را بدان یورش تکلیف کرد. او تسلیم نموده معروض داشت که بندگان را به جز اطاعت و جانسپاری چاره نیست اما بر خلایق درگاه واضح و روشن است که شکست مهایم1 از نفاق امرای دکنی و حبشی واقع شده ایشان از راه رشک و حسد نمی خواهند که از ابنای جنس ما، که ایشان را غریب میگویند، خدمات شایسته به ظهور رسد اگر پادشاه عنایت فرموده جمیع امرای مغول را مع خاصه خیل همراه بنده نماید و احدی از دکنی و حبشی را در این کار داخل نسازد امید که به توفیق صمدی و میامن اقبال خداوندی به احسن و جهی این معامله را مفروغ سازم. اپس از]2 آن سلطان به امرای دکنی و حبشی گفت: « که در این باب مصلحت چیست؟» میان من الله و خان زمان که عمدهآ ایشان بودند گفتند:

In the year 840, Nuseer Khan received accounts from his daughter that she experienced ill treatment from her husband, Alla-ood-Deen Shah; in consequence of which her father suspended all amicable intercourse with him; and in the year 841, at the instance of the King of Guzerat, invaded his country. He first entered Berar; and being supported by many malecontent Deccany chiefs caused the public prayers to be read in his name. He next invested the fortress of Narnala; but Alla-ood-Deen Shah having deputed Mullik-oot-Toojar with a large force to oppose him, Mullik Nuseer, accompanied by the Deccan officers, was compelled to fly. He was pursued by Mullik-oot-Toojar as far as Boorhanpoor, which city he completely sacked. Nuseer Khan then took refuge in the fort of Lulling, and solicited the assistance of the kings of Guzerat and Malwa. Mullik-oot-Toojar, determining to attack Nuseer Khan before reinforcements could arrive, pushed on by forced marches to Lulling, and reached that place with a select body of archers, amounting to about three thousand men. Nuseer Khan had with him only two thousand soldiers, but he attacked Mullik-oot-Toojar. After a severe action he was compelled to retreat, and with difficulty reached the fort. In this engagement he lost about twenty elephants and all his baggage; which disaster weighed so heavily upon his mind that he died in a few days after, on the 20th of Rubbee-ool-Awul, in the year 841, after a reign of forty years.