The Nāṣirī Generations 214.2

214.2

When Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, with the forces under him, arrived near unto the army of the faction, so that between the two armies about ten kuroh [about 18 miles] distance remained, a party at the capital, such as the Shaikh-ul-Islam [patriarch], Jamal-ud-Din, the Sayyid, Kutb-ud-Din, and Kazi Shams-ud-Din, the Bhara’iji, wrote letters secretly, and despatched them to Malik Kutlugh Khan and Malik ’Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan [urging them] to come to the capital, and that they would give up the gates [of the city] to them; and every one within the city they were getting to pledge their support to this movement. and were entering into compacts, and making stipulations with them. Certain loyal informants [however] wrote intimation of this sedition to Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam who, in consequence of this treason, from his camp, imparted information to the sublime Court respecting the fact of this disaffection on the part of a party of turban-wearers [priest-hood], and requested, in the event of its being expedient in the sublime opinion, that a royal mandate should be issued by his Majesty unto them to the effect that those [among them] who held fiefs in the neighbourhood of the capital should repair to their respective fiefs, and that their return to the city again should be prohibited, by his Majesty’s command, until that sedition should be quelled.