The Nāṣirī Generations 267.5

267.5

“I said: ‘Habashi, Nezah-war! what is this wrong? What have the Tulakis to do with rack and prison?’ He replied: ‘I am a leather-worker and Fiku a dog: The dog knows and the leather-worker knows what the wallet contains.’” The inhabitants of Tulak, both the soldiery and the peasantry, having suffered extortion [at his hands], revolted against him, seized him, and delivered up the fortress of Tulak and Habashi-i-Nezah-war to Malik Kutb-ud-Din Husain, in order that he might take charge of it, who came to the fortress of Tulak, and he located therein his own son, Malik Taj-ud-Din, Muhammad; and the maternal uncle of the writer [of this work], which is Minhaj-i-Saraj, and whose name was Kazi Jalal-ud-Din-i-Majd-ul-Mulk Ahmad-i-’Usman, Nisawi, was Hakim [governor], and the Khwajah [Jamal-ud-Din?] directed its affairs. After Habashi-i-Nezah-war fell into the power of Malik Kutb-ud-Din, Husain, the latter for a time kept him in confinement, and, at length, gave him permission to proceed to the fortress of Fiwar. The Malik of that fortress was the Pahlawan, Asil-ud-Din, the Nishaburi, and he seized Habashi-i-Nezah-war and martyred him.