The Nāṣirī Generations 197.8

197.8

Among the events which happened in the beginning of Sultan Raziyyat's reign, the greatest was that the Kiramitah and Mulahidah heretics of Hindustan, incited by a person, a sort of learned man, named Nur-ud-Din, a Turk, whom they used to style Nur, the Turk, collected together at Dihli, from different parts of the territory of Hind, such as Gujarat, and the country of Sind, and the parts round about the capital, Dihli, and the banks of the rivers Jun and Gang. In secret they pledged themselves to be faithful to each other, and, at the instigation of Nur, the Turk, they conspired against Islam. This Nur, the Turk, used to harangue, and the mob would collect around him. He used to call the ’Ulama of the orthodox people Nasibi [setters-up], and to style them Murji’ [procrastinators], and used to incite the common people to animosity against the orders of 'Ulama of the sects of Abu-Hanifah and Shafi until a day was fixed upon. The whole of the fraternities of the Mulahidah and Kiramitah entered the Jami' Masjid of the city of Dihli, on Friday, the 6th of the month of Rajab, in the year 634 H., to the number of about one thousand persons, armed with swords and shields.