The Nāṣirī Generations 288.1.5

288.1.5

A cry now arose in the city of Tun; and the Mulahidahs conspired against the Musalmans to put those poor unfortunates to death, but the Muhtashim promptly directed so that they issued a proclamation, to the effect that no Musalman should be hurt in the least, since it would not be right to slay all the Musalmans through the act of one individual. During that short period of tumult, however, an eminent Imam, and learned man, whom they used to call Imam Najm-ud-Din-i-Sarbari, the Rumi, attained martyrdom, because a Mulhid was at enmity with him, but of the rest of the Musalmans not one suffered any molestation. Subsequently, command was given so that they impaled the Mulhid who had killed the Imam. The object in [relating] this incident was this, that it is essential that sovereigns should ever be circumspect and vigilant, and should never leave [their] arms out of their own possession, and should not place confidence in any one. I now return to the thread of this History.