The Nāṣirī Generations 287.2.7

287.2.7

Whilst at Kash, Hulaku issued a farman to the Sultans and Rulers of I-ran-Zamin, pretending that the object of his coming was to destroy the strongholds of the Mulahidahs for the sake of the people of those parts, “who,” he said, “have sought the protection of the Ka'an, and made complaint unto him;” “the people,” in this case, being our Kazi! The object stated was as specious and illusive as an invasion of the same nature in these days—it was to appropriate the territories of the weak. “If ye present yourselves in person,” he said, “and render assistance, your services will be reignty overcame Mangu Khan; for the Kazi applied the words feebleness and infirmity to his government and power. Mangu Khan said: "What weakness hath the Kazi observed in our kingdom that he gives utterance to such like alarming words as these?" Kazi Shams-ud-Din replied: "What greater feebleness can there be than that the sect of Mulahidah has made several forts its asylum, notwithstanding that the creed of that sect is contrary to the Musalman faith, and also to the Christian and Mughal belief? They parade their riches and they wait in expectation of this, that, if your power should sustain any decline or reverse, the sect will rise in the midst of those mountains and in those fortresses, and overthrow the remainder of the people of Islam, and not leave the trace of a Musalman."