The Nāṣirī Generations 198.10

198.10

At this period, Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din, Bahram Shah, on Saturday, the 10th of Jamadi-ul-Awwal, in the year 639 H., entrusted this author with the Kazi-ship of the empire, together with the Kazi-ship of the capital, and conferred upon him a robe of honour and liberal presents. After this, the troops received orders [to move]. When the forces assembled on the bank of the Biah, the Khwajah Muhazzab-ud-Din, the Wazir, in order to take vengeance upon the Sultan, so that, by some means or other, he might oust him from the throne, indited a representation secretly to the Sultan from the camp, saying: "These Amirs and Turks will never become obedient. It is advisable that an edict should be issued by His Majesty that I, and Kutb-ud-Din, Husain, should destroy all the Amirs and Turks, by such means as may be attainable, in order that the country may be clear [of them]." When that representation reached the Sultan, he, according to the way of precipitancy and youthfulness, did not take this order into consideration nor deliberate upon it, and commanded so that an edict of the desired form was written out and despatched to the camp.