The Nāṣirī Generations 275.1

275.1

Trustworthy persons have related that Chaghatae, the accursed, was, at all times, striving to oppress the Muhammadans, and devising means to bring trouble and calamity upon the people of Islam, and bringing ruin upon those that remained of them and causing their extirpation, so that no sign or trace of them might anywhere be found. In the diffusion of that iniquity he was wont to machinate and to labour, and was in the habit of instigating a party of Mughals — Nu-yins and Bahadurs — in such a manner that they used to bring to Uktae’s notice words and acts on the part of Musalmans such as used to be the source of trouble and injury to the people of Islam, and the cause of their ruin and destruction, until, on one occasion, Chaghatae incited one of the priests of the idol-worshippers, which sect, in the Turki language, they style Tu-nian [Tunis], on such wise, that he came before Uktae and stated, saying : I have seen the Chingiz Khan in a dream, and he has given me a command to convey unto thee, and thou, who art Uktae, his son, and installed by him, in his place, shouldst neither neglect, in any way, to carry out that command, nor deviate from, or fail to comply with, that yasah [ordinance] ; and let it not be that thou receive not the Chingiz Khan’s approbation.