The Rashīdī History 94.9

94.9

I have mentioned this to show what a pious and abstinent man Khwaja Tajuddin was. He was in attendance on Sultan Ahmad Khan and Mansur Khán for fifty years, or rather these Khans were his disciples. And he accepted, during all this period, neither offering nor gift, whether it were from the Kháns or the Sultáns or the generals of the army, or from peasants or merchants. The Khwája occupied himself, also, with commerce and agriculture. And from these occupations there accrued to him, by the blessing of the Most High God, great wealth. And what urbanity did he not show, every year, towards the Khans and the Amirs! The poor and indigent—nay, more, the peasant, the villager, the artisan, and the merchant, all profited [by his wealth]. For this reason no one denied him anything, and all the affairs of the kingdom were laid before him in detail. He was, in very truth, a great and loving—a generous and zealous man. In one of the holy wars against Khitái, he was slain before Mansur Khán's eyes. (May God's mercy be upon him.) When Mansur Khán had disposed of these holy wars in Khitai, he fought a pitched battle with the Uzbeg Kazák at a place in Moghulistán called Arish, where he was defeated; and Sufi Mirza, who was a Begjik and the chief minister of the Ilkhan, was killed. After this event [Mansur] made fewer expeditions from Chalish and Turfan. Subsequent to the death of Sultan Said Khan, he marched against Aksu.