Tarikh-i Daʾudi 5.1.5

5.1.5

Sultan Sikandar followed him as far as the fort of Jiund, where Sultan Husain Sharki was, and with him the Hindu Juga took refuge. Sultan Sikandar encamped at a short distance from the fort, and wrote thus to Sultan Husain, "You are in the place of my uncle; all that happened between you and Sultan Bahlol has passed. I bear no enmity to you, and would treat you with respect; may this fort and land which you have taken possession of always belong to you. I have come hither to punish and chastise the rebel Juga; if you undertake his chastisement yourself, so much the better! If not, turn him out, that I may give him the punishment he merits; he is an infidel, and I am therefore convinced that you will not side with him." When this reached Sultan Husain Sharki, he sent one of his chief nobles, Mir Saiyid Khan, as an ambassador to Sultan Sikandar with this answer, "Juga is my servant, and thy father Bahlol was a soldier; I fought with him sword in hand! You are a silly child, and if you are guilty of any folly, I will strike you with my shoe instead of my sword." When Sultan Sikandar had heard these words, he said, "At first, I styled him my uncle, and I still adhere to that piece of civility. I desire to punish the infidel; if he assists him, I shall then be obliged to act. I have never boasted, and all Musulmans know it. With the blessing of God, the mouth that has uttered the word shoe, will itself be stricken with a shoe."