The History of Mubārak Shāh 1.16

1.16

On the 18th Ramazan, 790 H. (26th September, 1388 A.D.), Sultan Firoz died, worn out with weakness. Veracious historians and truthful chroniclers of venerable age have recorded that since the days of Nasiru-d din, son of Shamsu-d din Altamsh, who was a second Naushirwan, there has been no king in Dehli so just and merciful, so kind and religious, or such a builder. His justice won for him the hearts of his subjects. If any poor traveller, by the visitation of God, fell in the road and died, the feudal chiefs, the officers, and the mukaddams having called together the kazis and all Musulmans, they examined the body, and drew up a report under the seal of the kazi, certifying that no mark of a wound was discernible upon the body, and after that they buried it. Thus by inquiries of the kazis, all the injunctions of the law were fulfilled, and it was in no way possible that during the reign of this Sovereign, any strong man could tyrannize over the weak. God Almighty took this gentle, beneficent, and just king to his everlasting rest, after a reign of thirty-seven years and nine months.