Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 37.5.7

37.5.7

On the following day, contrary to his expectation, the King sent for the Kazy, and received him with great kindness. He conferred on him a handsome gold embroidered vest, and a purse of 1000 tunkas, and said, "Although I have not had the advantage of reading books like yourself, I can never forget that I was born the son of a Mussulman; and while I am quite prepared to admit the truth of all you say, yet, if the doctrines which you call law were put in practice, they alone would not answer the purpose of government, and more particularly such a government as this of Hindoostan. Unless severe punishments were inflicted for crimes they could never be checked; so that while I act with rigour in all such cases, according to the best of my judgment, I place reliance on God, that, if I have erred, the door of mercy will be open to me a repentant sinner."