Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 32.2.8
History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 32.2.8
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32.2.8
One day as a nobleman was inspecting a Koran of the King's writing before him, he pointed out the word _Fih_, which was written twice over: the King looking at it, smiled, and drew a circle round it. But when the critic was gone, he began to erase the circle, and restore the word. This being observed by one of his old attendants, he begged to know his Majesty's reason for so doing; to which he replied, that he knew the word was originally right, but he thought it better to erase it from a paper, than touch the heart of a poor man by bringing him to shame. In the year 663, the King fell sick, and having lingered some months of the disease, he expired on the 11th Jumad-ool-Awul, 664, after a reign of twenty years and upwards.