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Tabakat-i-Nasiri 282 - **Language:** English ### ACCOUNT OF A MUSALMAN MIRACLE. ### [282.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.282.1) Trustworthy persons have stated on this wise, that, when Kyuk acquired stability in his sovereignty, and had put to death his cousins, who were the sons of Chaghatae, and the Mughal Nu-ins and Bahadurs had submitted to his authority, he, upon several occasions, despatched immense armies towards Chin; and, in that country, victories were gained. A fraternity of recluses and devotees of the infidels of Chin, and idol-worshippers of Tingit and Tamghaj, whom they style by the name of Tunian \[Tunis\], acquired ascendancy over Kyuk. That faction constantly used to study persecuting the Musalmans, and were wont to promote means of afflicting the people of Islam continually, in order that, mayhap, they might entirely uproot them, extirpate them completely, and eradicate both name and sign of the true believers from the pages of that country. ### [282.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.282.2) One of those Tunian, who had a name and reputation in Chin and Turkistan, presented himself before Kyuk and said: “If thou desirest that the sovereignty and throne of the Mughals should remain unto thee, of two things do one—either massacre the whole of the Musalmans, or put a stop to their generating and propagating.” For a long time they were wont, in this manner, to importune and instigate Kyuk to this wickedness, and continued to devise insidious snares and artifices. On account of the numerousness of the Musalmans in the countries of Chin, Turkistan, and Tingit, to massacre them would not be feasible, they therefore \[the Tarsas\] came to this conclusion that it would be right that a mandate should be issued by Kyuk, that all Musalmans should be emasculated and made eunuchs of, in order that their race might become extinct, and the empire of the Mughals be safe from their rebellion and sedition. When such \[like\] tyranny and barbarity took root in the mind of Kyuk, and his decision in this course was come to, he commanded that a mandate should be issued, to this effect, throughout all parts of the Mughal dominions, from the extreme limits of Chin and Turkistan to the farthest parts of ’Ajam, 'Irak, Rum, and Sham, and the whole of the Mughal rulers, who were located in different parts, were directed to obey it, and hold it necessary to be carried out. ### [282.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.282.3) On this mandate having been written out, they brought it to Kyuk, and he impressed it with vermilion, which \[impression\], in the Turki language, they call Al-i-Tamghaj. Accordingly he delivered this mandate to \[one of\] those Mughal Tarsas, saying: “Do ye transmit this mandate into all parts of the empire, and use the utmost efforts in so doing:” When that accursed base one, who held that tyrannical mandate in his hand, was issuing from the place of audience in great glee and confidence, there was a dog which they used constantly to keep there, and which was wont to be near the throne, at the sides, and in the precincts of the dais, and the sovereign's exclusive seat; and on the animal’s golden collar, studded with precious stones, was impressed a brand denoting its being the royal property. It was a dog, which, in courage and fierceness, greatly exceeded and far surpassed a thousand roaring lions and howling tigers \[!\]. This dog was in Kyuk’s place of audience, and, like unto a wolf upon a sheep, or fire among wild rue seeds, it seized hold of that impious Tuni, flung him to the ground, and then, with its teeth, tore out that base creature's genitals from the roots; and, by the Heavenly power and Divine help, at once, killed him, and the imprecation, according to the hadis, which Mustafa—on whom be peace!—had pronounced upon the son of Abu Lahb: ‘‘O God! let one of thy dogs defile him!” was fulfilled upon that accursed wretch of a priest. ### [282.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.282.4) Such a miracle as this was vouchsafed in order that, under the shadow of the protection of the Most High God, the faith of Islam, the felicity of the Hanafi creed, the happiness of the Ahmadi belief, the prestige of the followers of the orthodox Muhammadi institutes, might continue safe from the malevolence of these accursed ones. When Kyuk, the Tunian, and those present of the Mughals and infidels of Chin, beheld such an awful and condign punishment, they abandoned that vicious meditation, and withheld the hand of tyranny from off the Musalmans; and they tore that Tamghaj \[vermilion-sealed document\] to pieces. Praise be unto God for the triumph of Islam and the overthrow of idolatry! When a period of one year and a half of the reign of Kyuk had passed away, the decree of death arrived, and at the board of destiny placed the morsel of death in the mouth of Kyuk’s existence; and the cause of his death, likewise, is thus related. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.282](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.282) · Pramāṇa