The Nāṣirī Generations 192.1.2

192.1.2

Although the beneficent Sultan, Kutb-ud-Din — on whom be peace! displayed to the world the bestowal of hundreds of thousands, the august and beneficent Sultan, Shams-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din — may he rest in peace! — in place of every hundred thousand of his, used to bestow a hundred [times a] hundred thousand, both in capacity and in computation, as, both in this world and in the next, may be accounted [in his favour]. Towards men of various sorts and degrees, Kazis, Imams, Muftis, and the like, and to darweshes and monks, landowners and farmers, traders, strangers and travellers from great cities, his benefactions were universal. From the very outset of his reign, and the dawn of the morning of his sovereignty, in the congregating of eminent doctors of religion and law, venerable Sayyids, Maliks, Amirs, Sadrs, and [other] great men, the Sultan used, yearly, to expend about ten millions; and people from various parts of the world he gathered together at the capital city of Dihli which is the seat of government of Hindustan, and the centre of the circle of Islam, the sanctuary of the mandates and inhibitions of the law, the kernel of the Muhammadi religion, the marrow of the Ahmadi belief, and the tabernacle of the eastern parts of the universe — Guard it, O God, from calamities, and molestation!