The Nāṣirī Generations 152.3.4

152.3.4

On awakening from his dream, the Sultan commanded, so that, at break of day, Kazi Wahid-ud-Din was requested to deliver a discourse. When he occupied the seat of the pulpit, he remarked, during the discourse, saying, “Sovereign of Islam! this your servant hath during the past night dreamt a dream,” and he related the very same dream that the Sultan had himself dreamt, for he had had one like it; whereupon, when the Kazi descended from the chair, and went up to make his obeisance to the Sultan, the latter seized the blessed hand of Kazi, Wahid-ud-Din, and adopted the tenets of Imam Shafi'i. When the withdrawal of the Sultan to the sect of the Traditionists became divulged, a load came upon the hearts of the ’Ulama of the sect of Muhammad-i-Kiram [the Kiramis]. Of this body, the great ecclesiastics were numerous; but, at that time, the most eloquent among them all was Imam, Sadr-ud-Din, ’Ali, Haisam, the Nishapuri, who was resident at, and the head of the college of the city of Afshin of Gharjistan. He composed a strophe on the Sultan, and in it censured his withdrawal from the sect; and, when that strophe came to the Sultan’s knowledge, his sacred mind became much irritated with him, and Imam Sadr-ud-Din found it impossible to continue to dwell within the dominions of Ghur. The strophe is this: — [This polemical squib is of some length, and varies more or less in almost every copy, is of no particular interest, and need scarcely be translated.]