[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 127.4 # The Rashīdī History 127.4 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 127.4 - **Language:** English ### [127.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.4) When the Khan related these incidents to me, as he frequently did, he used to say : " I had, for a long time, felt quite assured that the Uzbeg would spare none of the Moghul Sultans, and had become so convinced of this, at the time of my first visit to Andijan, that when I arrived there \[on this occasion\], and certain pious men had written to me and sent prayers \[for me to repeat\], I said in reply to them : 'One of the conditions \[of prayer\] is that nothing impossible should be prayed for; now my deliverance must be reckoned among impossibilities, and therefore these prayers for my safety would be ill-advised.' To which they answered: 'Though these prayers may not have the power to bring about deliverance from the imminent peril in which you stand, yet on account of them, God will give you a greater reward in the next world.' On this assurance I repeated the prayers which they had sent me. I began also to turn over in my mind my chances of safety, and how my escape might be achieved, but not one of the ideas that occurred to me seemed feasible. If, for example, Shahi Beg Khan were now to die, how could his dying in Khorasan, at the time when they were going to put me to death in Akhsi, in any way further my escape? If, again, Jani Beg Sultan were to die, his death would not throw the affairs of the Uzbeg into such confusion that, during the disturbance, my escape could be effected. In short, I could not conceive any possibility or probability of deliverance. - [Previous: 127.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.3) - [Next: 127.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.5) - [Up: 127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.127.4) · Pramāṇa