The Rashīdī History 74.6

74.6

I once heard from his Holiness, the Refuge of Piety, Mauláná Muhammad Kázi (upon whom be mercy), who on a certain occasion went to Marghilán, the following: "I had heard that Yunus Khán was a Moghul, and I concluded that he was a beardless man, with the ways and manners of any other Turk of the desert. But when I saw him, I found he was a person of elegant deportment, with a full beard and a Tájik face, and such refined speech and manner, as is seldom to be found even in a Tajik." In short, when his Holiness had seen the Khan, he addressed letters to all the Sultans round about, saying: "I have seen Yunus Khan and the Moghuls. The subjects of such a padishah are not to be carried off captives. They are people of Islam." From this time forth, no more Moghuls were bought or sold as slaves in Mavara-un-Nahr and Khorasan—for before this, the Moghuls had been purchased as other Kafirs are purchased.