Tarikh-i Daʾudi 11.5.2

11.5.2

Nearly at the same time he sent one of his courtiers, who was in an indigent condition, to perform a certain service, in the hope that his circumstances would thus be bettered. This person acted throughout the business with conscientious integrity, and after transacting it, returned. On another occasion he told the King how honestly he had behaved. Islam Shah was at that time severely disposed towards every one, and only repeated the following verse in reply: "When you bestrode the horse of good fortune, If you did not put him to his speed, what can a man do for you?" They say that, during Islam Shah's reign a darwesh, Shaikh 'Alai by name, created a great disturbance by openly professing the religion of the Mahdi, and led many people astray. He collected an innumerable host of fakirs and darweshes about him, and was in the habit of traversing the bazars, and forbidding by every means in his power all acts contrary to the precepts of the Kur'an. His sect had its head-quarters at Bayana. At length, by the advice of his murshid, he set forth, accompanied by six or seven thousand followers, with the intention of performing the pilgrimage to Mecca. When he arrived at Khawaspur, which is in the Jodhpur territory, Khawas Khan, who has before been mentioned, came forth to meet him, and joined him. When Islam Shah heard of these events, he summoned him to the presence. The Shaikh perceived that the King was attended by a select party of his nobles;