The Nāṣirī Generations 198.11

198.11

As soon as the edict reached the camp, Muhazzab-ud-Din showed the very edict itself to the Amirs and Turks, saying: "The Sultan writes and commands respecting you on this subject." All of them became excessively incensed against the Sultan, and, at the suggestion of the Khwajah Muhazzab-ud-Din, the Wazir, they pledged themselves to effect the expulsion and dethronement of the Sultan. When the news of this disaffection on the part of those Amirs and troops reached the capital, the Shaikh-ul-Islam [the Muhammadan Patriarch] of the capital was Sayyid Kutb-ud-Din, and him the Sultan despatched to the army for the purpose of allaying that sedition. He proceeded to the camp, and used his endeavours in stirring up and augmenting that sedition, and came back again, and the army followed after him, and arrived before the gates of Dihli, and fighting was commenced.