Tarikh-i Daʾudi 11.5.6

11.5.6

It is commonly reported that Shaikh 'Alái repeated a stanza in the presence of Islám Sháh, and said, "If you desire to comprehend my motives for these actions, meditate on this verse of Shaikh Auhadu-d din Kirmání : I have one soul, and a thousand bodies ! But both soul and bodies belong entirely to me. It is strange I have made myself another." Islám Sháh was at this time so desirous of overthrowing the great chiefs, that he thought of nothing else even for a single moment. Some of the great nobles conspired together, with the intention of dethroning Islám Sháh, and raising Mubáriz Khán to the government. Islám Sháh was informed of the treason of these people, and immediately endeavoured to assemble them in one place, and there punish them. The aforesaid chiefs, being warned of his intention, met together, and entered into an agreement not to present themselves at the darbár all at once, but to go one by one. They thus contrived to go there without danger. Islám Sháh was day and night thinking and planning how he might best put them to death. But the decrees of Providence do not change to suit human wishes and counsels, and he was taken suddenly ill and confined to his bed in the fort of Gwálior, by a painful retention of urine, and a disease of the bladder. People say that he was afflicted by an imposthume in his privy parts. He never mentioned this circumstance to any one, and cauterized it with his own hand ;